Saturday, August 3, 1957
Strike Will Not Paralyse Service
New Delhi, Aug 2.
Mr Nehru is understood to have told a meeting of the Executive of the Congress Parliamentary Party here today that Government would draft the services of the military to keep the normal life of the community going in the event of the threatened strike by Government employees materialising.
Mr. Nehru made it clear that the military would be used not to break the strike, but only for maintaining communications and other services essential for the life of the nation.
Telegrams, Phone Cut
New Delhi, Aug. 2.
The Director-General of Posts and Telegraphs has made arrangements to maintain its “services with certain limitations if the threatened strike by the P and T employees scheduled to begin on the midnight of August 8 - 9 materialises.  These limitations would, be progressively relaxed, the department said.

Tuesday, August 3, 1982
Tunga, Nethravathi In Spate, 2 Dead
Bangalore, Aug. 2.
Rivers Tunga and Nethravathi are in spate following copious rains in Shimoga, Chikmagalur, North Kanara and South Kanara Districts since Saturday.
In North Kanara District one boy was drowned as a boat carrying 11 persons capsized in the Avinashi River, The other ten persons were rescued, reports here said tonight. In another incident, a Karnataka Power Corporation Employee fell into flood waters, while he was repairing a pole and was drowned.