{"id":72116,"date":"2025-02-22T16:25:47","date_gmt":"2025-02-22T16:25:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alertindianews.in\/?p=72116"},"modified":"2025-02-22T16:25:47","modified_gmt":"2025-02-22T16:25:47","slug":"maharashtra-suspends-bus-services-to-karnataka-after-attack-on-driver","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alertindianews.in\/?p=72116","title":{"rendered":"Maharashtra Suspends Bus Services To Karnataka After Attack On Driver"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Maharashtra Transport Minister Pratap Sarnaik on Saturday ordered the suspension of the state transport buses to Karnataka after an MSRTC bus was attacked.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Sarnaik said the Maharashtra State Road Transport Corporation (MSRTC) bus, which was travelling from Bengaluru to Mumbai, was attacked in Chitradurga in Karnataka on Friday night by pro-Kannada activists.<\/p>\n<p>They also blackened the face of driver Bhaskar Jadhav and assaulted him, the minister said.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Sarnaik said the bus services won&#8217;t be resumed unless the Karnataka government makes its stand clear on the issue.<\/p>\n<p><i>(Except for the headline, this story has not been edited by NDTV staff and is published from a syndicated feed.)<\/i><\/p>\n<p>\u200bMaharashtra Transport Minister Pratap Sarnaik on Saturday ordered the suspension of the state transport buses to Karnataka after an MSRTC bus was attacked.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Maharashtra Transport Minister Pratap Sarnaik on Saturday ordered the suspension of the state transport buses to Karnataka after<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":72117,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72116","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alertindianews.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72116","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alertindianews.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alertindianews.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alertindianews.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=72116"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alertindianews.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72116\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alertindianews.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/72117"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alertindianews.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=72116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alertindianews.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=72116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alertindianews.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=72116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<!-- This website is optimized by Airlift. Learn more: https://airlift.net. Template:. Learn more: https://airlift.net. Template: 6a4b5deb190636d5f833cb99. Config Timestamp: 2026-07-06 07:48:59 UTC, Cached Timestamp: 2026-07-06 15:43:05 UTC, Optimization Time: 3.3ms -->