News18 Evening Digest: Bengaluru Stampede Toll At 11, Census To Begin In 2027 & Other Top Stories
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In today's News18 Evening Digest, we bring you latest updates on Bengaluru stadium stampede, Jasbir Singh's spy case and other top stories.
News18 Evening Digest: In today's News18 Evening Digest, we bring you latest updates on Bengaluru stadium stampede, Jasbir Singh's spy case and other top stories.
11 Killed, Many Injured In Stampede Outside Bengaluru's Chinnaswamy Stadium During RCB Celebrations
At least eleven people were killed and several were injured in a stampede outside M Chinnaswamy Stadium in Bengaluru where thousands gathered to celebrate the victory of Royal Challengers Bengaluru in IPL 2025, sources told CNN-News18. Read more
Census To Begin On March 1, 2027; Caste Data To Be Included: Sources
The nationwide Census including caste data will begin on March March 1, 2027, the Ministry of Home Affairs announced on Wednesday. The exercise to count the population will be done in two phases. 'The reference date for Population Census – 2027 will be 00:00 hours of the first day of March, 2027. For the Union Territory of Ladakh and the non-synchronous snow-bound areas of the UT of Jammu and Kashmir and States of Himachal Pradesh and Uttarakhand, the reference date will be 00.00 hours of the first day of October, 2026," the MHA said. Read more
'My Daughter Didn't Abscond…': Influencer Sharmistha Panoli's Father On Her Arrest
Father of 22-year-old Pune law student and social media influencer Sharmistha Panoli, who was recently arrested by Kolkata Police on charges of hurting religious sentiments and promoting enmity, said that his daughter was in Gurugram for a pre-scheduled legal internship and not avoiding police action. Read more
Jasbir Singh, a YouTuber with over 1.1 million subscribers on his channel 'Jaan Mahal", has been arrested by the Punjab Police's State Special Operations Cell (SSOC), Mohali, for his alleged involvement in a Pakistan-backed espionage network. Jasbir Singh's arrest follows intelligence inputs linking him to suspected operatives of Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI). He is the second content creator held in recent weeks in the investigation in which Haryana-based YouTuber Jyoti Malhotra was arrested earlier. Read more
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Defeat in victory: How RCB's rushed Bengaluru parade ended in deaths
The victory celebrations in Bengaluru of the long-awaited IPL win by the Royal Challengers Bengaluru (RCB) had broken out well before midnight on June 3. From the city's central hangouts around MG Road to bustling residential neighbourhoods, whose watering holes and clubs were packed, fans had taken to the streets, some on foot, others hollering past in vehicles. When the central business district had finally been cleared of revellers, it was past 3 am. For the city's police force, it was akin to the frenzy every New Years' what lay in store for them the following afternoon was of an entirely different order. Primarily because it all happened at short notice, leaving little time to prepare for the tsunami of fans that hit central Bengaluru on June 4. A stampede and 11 deaths M. Chinnaswamy Cricket Stadium, the RCB's home ground, has a seating capacity of 35,000. On a usual match day, the crowd runs into a few extra thousands, accounting for those who land up without tickets in hand. Hence, crowd management on those days isn't as much a worry as maintaining traffic flow, points out a police officer. But on June 4, approximately 200,000 to 300,000 fans had trooped in for the RCB victory celebration, details of which had been sketchy from the police had apparently shot down the original plan, which was a victory parade from the city's old HAL airport—where the RCB team had touched down—all the way to the state secretariat, Vidhana Soudha, located in the heart of Bengaluru. But it appears they had no such luck with the alternate plan that was eventually charted. This involved a reception on the grand steps of the Vidhana Soudha, followed by a parade around the block to the nearby Chinnaswamy By mid-afternoon, even as the felicitation was underway, tragedy was unfolding at the stadium gates where huge crowds were trying to get in. The youngest of the 11 victims was a schoolgirl aged 14 whose mother had brought her to the stadium as a a backlash and under attack from the Opposition parties, the Siddaramaiah-led Congress government, on June 5, ordered the arrest of representatives of RCB, Karnataka State Cricket Association (KSCA) and event managing firm DNA. Alongside, chief minister Siddaramaiah took the unprecedented step of placing the Bengaluru City police commissioner under suspension for dereliction of duty, along with four other police officers. Retired judge, Justice John Michael Cunha, has been asked to hold an inquiry and report in 30 to the suspension order, the CEO of RCB had informed the police commissioner on June 3 about holding a victory parade. 'However, the office of the police commissioner failed to give written reply to the organisers, rejecting the permission on the grounds of lack of time to prepare for such a huge event,' the order said.'The RCB and the [Karnataka State] Cricket Association went ahead to tweet about the celebrations and inviting fans to the Chinnaswamy Stadium without going through the usual practice of issue of tickets or passes. Despite the knowledge of these developments and expectation of huge turnout of cricket fans by the police, steps were not taken to either have the event organised systematically at the stadium or give adequate information to the public to take necessary precautions for their safety or provide additional police force for appropriate crowd management,' the order parties have accused the Siddaramaiah government of rushing to hold a felicitation. 'In the wake of severe public backlash and outrage over Bengaluru stampede, the government is now desperately looking for scapegoats,' said the BJP's R. Ashoka, who is leader of the Opposition in the legislative Union minster H.D. Kumaraswamy, also state president of the Janata Dal (Secular), held a press conference in New Delhi on the night of June 4, where he blamed his rival and Karnataka deputy chief minister D.K. Shivakumar for the tragedy. 'What was the rush to organise a felicitation event immediately? Who invited the team? Why this urgency? Everyone knows the role the deputy CM played in all this,' Kumaraswamy said, pointing out that Shivakumar had also gone to the HAL airport to receive the RCB ascertain the reasons that led to the tragedy and whether it could have been prevented, the Karnataka High Court registered a suo motu writ petition on June 5. It has asked the government to file a status-report answering nine points, ranging from who took the decision to hold the victory celebration to whether any standard operating procedures had been formulated to manage large crowds in events of this nature. The court will resume the hearing on June 10.A police officer said paucity of time was the biggest reason for such a tragedy. According to him, over the years, the Bengaluru police have beefed up crowd-control tactics owing to the bitter memories of the total chaos that marred the funeral procession of Kannada film industry's icon, Dr Rajkumar, in officer pointed to two events in Bengaluru in recent years that demanded a high-level of preparation and which were executed smoothly—the funeral of actor Puneeth Rajkumar in 2021, which drew an estimated 1.5 million mourners from all over the state, and a 26-km-long roadshow of Prime Minister Narendra Modi in Bengaluru in 2023. 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