50 YEARS AGO
Tuesday, August 6, 1957

Commission Can Recommend Relief
New Delhi, August 5
Prime Minister Nehru tonight appealed to the Posts and Telegraphs and other workers to give up methods of strike and conflict involving illwill and injury to all concerned.

Mr Nehru said that the inquiry commission (which the Government has decided to set up to go into the wage structure of Government employees) “can make an interim report about relief or other matters,”.

He added, “I do not know what more Government can do in these circumstances.”

Plea To Exempt Sales Tax
Bangalore, Aug 5.
A powerful plea for decreasing the incidence of taxation on the poor and to exempt the levy of sales-tax on essential commodities was entered in the State Legislative Assembly today during the debate on the report of the Select Committee on the Mysore Sales Tax Bill.

25 YEARS AGO
Friday, August 6, 1982

First To Fall, But Yet To Rise
By A Staff Reporter
Bangalore, Aug 5
He was the first to fall when the 30-foot high roof of the century-old museum hall of the department of mines and geology collapsed here on Tuesday morning.

He was on the roof-top attending to the alignment of tiles when the roof collapsed killing two young geologists.

All that the 40-year-old construction worker remembered was that he along with the junior engineer and others went down and a thud sounded in his ears.