Biker run over by lorry near Ekkur, pillion rider survives

September 18, 2011

Mangalore, September 18: A motorcyclist met with a tragic accident near Ekkur railway bridge on Saturday evening when he flung off his bike while negotiating a pothole and was run over by a lorry moving in the same direction.

The deceased is believed to be around 25 years of age and was riding on a pulsar bike bearing number KA19- 1444 with Fazil written on it. According to the Kankanady police, the deceased was wearing a striped grey colour shirt and coffee colour pants. The dead body has been kept at the mortuary of the Wenlock Hospital. The body is smashed severly making it difficult to identify the body, said a man who saw the body in the mortuary.

Quoting eyewitnesses, the police said, the motorcyclist, along with the pillion, was trying to overtake a lorry moving in the same direction from Pumpwell to Thokkottu. The biker had succeeded in moving past the lorry but unfortunately landed into a crater and lost his balance. Both rider and the pillion flung off the bike and fell on the road.

The pillion rider managed to get up and run to safety while, the pillion rider, believed to be in his mid 20s, was run over immediately by the lorry. The victim was rolled over by the rear wheel of the lorry

Quoting the lorry driver, the police said the pillion rider might have injured his hand. But another source claimed that the deceased was in fact the rider of the bike.

According to police the identity of the victim is yet to be established. A case has been registered.

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Why Mangaluru Could Become India’s Next Offshore Wind Energy Hub

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Dakshina Kannada MP Capt Brijesh Chowta has urged the Centre to give high priority to offshore wind energy generation along the Mangaluru coast, citing its strategic importance to India’s green energy and port-led development goals.

Raising the issue in the Lok Sabha under Rule 377, Chowta said studies by the National Institute of Oceanography have identified the Mangaluru coastline as part of India’s promising offshore wind ‘Zone-2’, covering nearly 6,490 sq km. He noted that the region’s relatively low exposure to cyclones and earthquakes makes it suitable for long-term offshore wind projects and called for its development as a dedicated offshore wind energy zone.

Highlighting the role of New Mangalore Port, Chowta said its modern infrastructure, multiple berths and heavy cargo-handling capacity position it well as a logistics hub for transporting and assembling large wind energy equipment.

He also pointed to the presence of major industrial units such as MRPL, OMPL, UPCL and the Mangaluru SEZ, which could serve as direct buyers of green power through power purchase agreements, improving project viability and speeding up execution.

With Karnataka’s peak power demand crossing 18,000 MW in early 2025, Chowta stressed the need to diversify renewable energy sources. He added that offshore wind projects in the Arabian Sea are strategically safer compared to the cyclone-prone Bay of Bengal.

Calling the project vital to India’s target of 500 GW of renewable energy by 2030, Chowta urged the Ministry of New and Renewable Energy to initiate resource assessments, pilot projects and stakeholder consultations at the earliest.

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