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19-year-old college girl clubbed to death by senior in classroom

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August 31, 2016

Karur/Madurai, Aug 31: Close on the heels of the cold-blooded murder of IT employee Swathi at a railway station in Chennai, a 19-year-old student was clubbed to death by her senior inside the classroom at a private engineering college near Karur on Tuesday. Police suspect unrequited love to be the motive for the murder.

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According to police, the victim, identified as K Sonali, hails from Manamadurai in Sivaganga district, and is studying third year civil engineering in a private engineering college near Karur.

The accused Udayakumar (22) hailing from Paramakudi in Ramanathapuram was studying in the same college till last November after which it is said he had reportedly dropped out.

Sources claimed Udayakumar was in one sided love with Sonali, and proposed to her a couple of times but she refused downright and stopped talking to him. On Tueday, Udayakumar entered Sonali's classroom and started to assault her with a wooden log. 

Though the faculty Sathish Kumar (24) tried to prevent the accused, he was overpowered and suffered severe injuries on his hands. Soon after the brutal assault , Udayakumar fled the spot. Sonali was taken to a private hospital in Karur, but she succumbed to her injuries.

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Abdul
 - 
Wednesday, 31 Aug 2016

As far as i have seen, people from chennai are very selfish and don\t even care for other peoples life,as i can recall the same incident happened in railway station and no body came for her aid.Humanity is no more,animals are better than humans."

Rikaz
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Wednesday, 31 Aug 2016

Sorry to hear this unfortunate event....other students who are gathered around could have saved her by over pouring that criminal.....selfish people....because of them one valuable life lost around....

Hasan Malar
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Wednesday, 31 Aug 2016

Shocking. RIP.. The culprit deserves a similar punishment in the same spot.

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August 7,2020

Mangaluru, Aug 7: Coronavirus surge in the coastal districts of Dakshina Kannada and Udupi today at 411  with with Udupi tallying 245 fresh cases and DK 166. 

A dozen deaths also reported from the twin districts. While DK reported seven fatalities, Udupi recorded five deaths. 

With this, Dakshina Kannada district's Covid-19 tally increased to 6,881 and the total number of deaths increased to 208. 

While the district has 3,369 active cases as on date, the day also saw 188 people getting discharged from hospitals. As many as 3,304 persons were discharged in the district so far. 

Out of seven deaths reported in Dakshina Kannada on Friday, five were from Mangaluru taluk and one each from Puttur and Belthangady taluks.

Meanwhile, out of 245 new coronavirus cases reported in Udupi on Friday, 175 are asymptomatic and 86 have no specific contact history. With this, the total number of cases in Udupi increased to 5,605, which includes 2,292 active cases. 

Udupi also reported five fatalities including a female victim, taking the district’s death toll to 55. Udupi deputy commissioner G Jagadeesha said all the five victims were also suffering from various comorbidities. Udupi district has collected Rs 1,43,300 as penalty from people for violating rules related to social distancing and mask till August 6.

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May 20,2020

Mangaluru, May 20: The Third Vande Bharat Mission flight carrying 63 repatriates from Muscat landed at Mangaluru International Airport at 8.35 pm on Wednesday. It was piloted by Mangalurean captain Michael Saldanha.

More than half of the passengers from Muscat alighted in Bengaluru where the flight landed first. Remaining 63 passengers came to Mangaluru. 

After landing, all the passengers were given health kits, food and mobile SIMs, and arrangements were made to change their currency at the airport. 

A health department team screened each passenger, after which emigration formalities were completed. Their throat swab samples will be tested for Covid-19 on Thursday.

Union fertiliser minister D V Sadananda Gowda tweeted on Wednesday that the next Vande Bharat Mission flight is scheduled on Friday from Doha to Mangaluru. The flight will land at Mangaluru at 9.55 pm. 

The third repatriation flight from Dubai to Mangaluru is scheduled on Saturday. It will first land at Bengaluru and later fly to Mangaluru. However, there are no flights from Bahrain, Saudi Arabia and Kuwait to Mangaluru.

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June 9,2020

Mangaluru, May 9: An Indian expatriate worker from Karnataka’s coastal district of Dakshina Kannada died of in Dubai after he suffered a cardiac arrest.

The deceased has been identified as Yashwant, 37, hailing from Malali Kajila House in Tenkulipady village, on the outskirts of Mangaluru.

He was working as an air-conditioner mechanic in Dubai for the last two years.

As per sources, he suffered a heart attack. However, the exact cause of this death is yet to be known.

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