After welcoming the World Health Organisation dignitaries on the dais with bouquets, the Master of Ceremonies extended the same honour to the reporters.
Rape, chilly weather blamed
Hold the weather responsible for people turning romantic. Several songs of Indian movies blame the weather for making people fall in love. But the global warming seems to have changed the course. There could be several methods of checking the phenomenon of global warming but the Karnataka police has a unique and a peculiar barometer to assess the weather condition. Police records suggest that from 2004 to 2006 the number of rape cases in Bangalore remained above 30 but not exceeded 35. But this year till September the number of rape cases reached 47. When the figures reached the hands of the scribes a question emerged spontaneously: “How come the number of rape cases has increased this year?” As instantaneous was the question, so quick was the response of a police officer. “Bangalore weather has changed. It has become more pleasant,” said the police officer.
— G Manjusainath
Scribes get extended welcome
It is customary to welcome and thank the media for attending public functions. At the inauguration of a pilot project on a smoke-free workplace, the organisers went one step further, catching a group of reporters off-guard.
After welcoming the World Health Organisation dignitaries on the dais with bouquets, the Master of Ceremonies extended the same honour to the reporters. This reporter who was first in line was presented with a bouquet followed by the other three reporters.
A photojournalist asked, tongue in cheek, if he should click pictures of the dignitaries off stage as well.
— Gayathri L
Catching them hot and cold!
It was a wet Wednesday for Bangaloreans, particularly for journalists who had their task cut out for the day, when the news of Lokayukta’s raid on the residences of 13 officers, including an IAS officer, came in.
After embarking on a wild goose chase in search of the residences of some officers, many journalists finally assembled at the office of Lokayukta, for the press briefing. Lokayukta Justice N Santosh Hegde welcomed the shivering journalists by saying they had a field day and they had trapped 13 officers. One of the journalists interfered to tell Lokayukta their raid had caught journalistic fraternity wet, to which Mr Hegde quipped by saying it is both 'hot & cold' for erring officials. Officers already in Lokayukta net are feeling the heat, while prospective corrupt officials are feeling cold thinking of imminent raid on their residences.
— Anantha Subramanyam K
Meet over missing son
Newspapers being in demand to cover events, happenings is not new. From people to PR agencies, the print and electronic media is hounded for covering news. This came to the fore when an anxious parent decided to organise a press meet about his son, who went missing. K P Kalappa, a staff at the KAT while addressing the media said his teenage son K K Chetan, a first PUC student of Sree Cauvery College, Indiranagar had not returned home.
“I had accompanied him to Karugunda Grama in Kodagu, our native home town for the Dasara holidays. After the holidays he left Kodagu on October 22 to Bangalore. We have lodged a complaint with the police. Two months have passed, yet we have no clue about his whereabouts. I request the media to help us trace our son,” he said.
