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Thursday, Dec 09, 2004

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From the Districts

Kidnapped boy rescued

By Our Staff Correspondent

BELLARYSHIMOGADHARWADGULBARGA, DEC. 8.DEC. 8.DEC. 8 The police have rescued a boy who had been kidnapped by a gang from Havambhavi locality in Bellary on Sunday. Eight persons have been arrested in this connection. Soon after learning about the kidnapping, the police formed special teams to nab the abductors. On Tuesday, the Bellary Rural police traced the vehicle, by which the abductors had escaped, near Halkundi and took the driver and two others into custody. Based on the information given by them, the boy, who was kept in a farmhouse at Pannamanahalli in Molakalmuru taluk of Chitradurga district, was rescued. The arrested included Sriramreddy, a resident of Bellary, Pennamanahalli Srinivas, Rama Reddy, V. Honnurappa, Hanumanth and Yerriswamy of Rayadurga in Andhra Pradesh. The arrested persons were produced in court and remanded in judicial custody.

Placement programme

By Our Special Correspondent

BELLARYSHIMOGADHARWADGULBARGA, DEC. 8.DEC. 8.DEC. 8 Jawaharlal Nehru National College of Engineering in coordination with HEXAWARE Technologies of Bangalore has organised a placement programme for students of the six engineering colleges of Shimoga, Chikmagalur, Haveri, and Davangere districts. According to the placement officer of the college, Kumaraswamy, 760 students studying in the seventh semester in Computer Science, Electronics and Electrical branches will participate in the programme to be held on the college premises on Friday. The colleges participating in the programme are AIT in Chikmagalur, SJIT in Ranebennur, JNNCE in Shimoga, BIT, UBDT and GMIT in Davangere.

Schoolteachers' plea to Govt.

By Our Special Correspondent

BELLARYSHIMOGADHARWADGULBARGA, DEC. 8.DEC. 8.DEC. 8 The Akhila Karnataka Prathamika Shikshakara Sangha, an organisation of primary school teachers of Karnataka, affiliated to the All-India Primary Teachers' Federation, has urged the Government to ensure that textbooks and uniforms supplied to primary school and high school students reached the schools rather than making teachers collect them from the authorities concerned. In a press note, the sangha said that the present practice of teachers collecting them had turned out to be a sort of punishment to them. The teachers had to undergo many hardships during the current academic year. Even the transport cost and the allowance due to them had not been paid. The sangha said it would send a memorandum to the Chief Minister, N. Dharam Singh, in this regard.

Nominated to Dalit academy

By Our Special Correspondent

BELLARYSHIMOGADHARWADGULBARGA, DEC. 8.DEC. 8.DEC. 8 The Dalit leader and writer Basanna Singhe has been nominated State general secretary of the Dalit Sahitya Academy. This was made known in a press release by the president of the academy, Chandrakant Poste, here today. Mr. Singhe, a multifaceted personality, is one of the founding members of the Dalit Sangharsh Samiti. Mr. Singhe has been authorised to tour the State and constitute district and taluk committees of the academy.

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