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3 Good Samaritans who rescued countless accident victims honoured

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August 16, 2017

Mangaluru, Aug 16: Three Good Samaritans, who have been helping accident victims and  10 students from government schools, who did well in the Class 10 examination were among those felicitated by district in-charge Minister B. Ramanath Rai during the Independence Day celebrations at the Nehru Maidan in the city.

Mr. Rai presented “Jeevarakshak award” to Sunil Ivan Menezes from Vagga in Bantwal for rescuing nearly 150 accident victims in the last 15 years. Mr. Menezes has also been taking care of people abandoned on the streets.

The award was also presented to Sharat Kumar from Thokkottu, who has saved the lives of nearly 100 accident victims in the last 15 years, and Naveen Kumar from Uppinangady, who has saved the lives of 20 accident victims.

Students get laptops

The Department of Public Instruction has been giving away every year laptops to top three scorers in the Class 10 examination. These laptops are given, apart from the top three scorers of the district, to toppers in the seven educational blocks.

Mr. Rai presented laptops to Sanath Raghava U., a student of Government Pre University College, Puttur, who topped the district with 615 marks. Shivaram from Government Pre University College Siddakatte, Bantwal, (610 marks), Prajesh from Government Secondary School Kashipatna, Belthangady (606) and Roopa from Government School, Keyyur, Puttur (606), were the other three toppers from the district to receive the laptops.

Mr. Rai presented laptops to Pratham A. Acharya from Chelyar, Puneeta from Balmatta and Prem Sagar from Chelyar, who were toppers from the Mangaluru North Block. Prateeksha from Kuppepadavu, Harshini from Permannoor and Sharanya S., who topped the Mangaluru South Block, also received the laptops.

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Saleem Panja
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Wednesday, 16 Aug 2017

Minister UT Khader also entitle for Jeevarakshak award, he  also appeared at accident spot.

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March 4,2020

Vijayapura, Mar 4: Despite strict measures to prevent any kind of embarrassing incidents during II PU board exams, the first three pages of Physics question paper was doing rounds on social media within an hour of commencement.

According to sources, “after removing the question papers from the sealed paper envelope, one of the supervisors is suspected to have taken photographs of it and circulated to the various social networking sites and Whatsapp. In an hour it spread across the district and the incident is said to be happened at Shanteshwar Pre-University College at Indi town.”

As many as 27,359 students were enrolled for the PU Board exams and among them 7,984 students have registered for Science. On the first-day, Physics for Science and History for Arts examinations were held in 41 centres of the district.

Confirming the question papers are being circulated over social networking applications, Deputy Commissioner YS Patil told TNIE that: “According to the Karnataka Education Act 24 (a) it cannot be considered as the question paper leak.”

“Even we have contacted the head office of the PU Board they also collecting the primary details denied to claim it as question paper leak. However, a committee will investigate and will also visit the college in the earliest. If any of the supervisors found guilty an action will be initiated against them. It is not a question paper leak instead it might be lapse of duty from the supervisors and investigation will be made,” stated DC Patil.

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May 27,2020

Kasaragod, May 27: In a tragic incident, two persons, who were brothers, died of asphyxiation while trying to rescue a calf that fell in their well at Bandhiyod near here on Wednesday.

Police sources said the elder brother Narayanan (50) entered into the well first to save the calf that fell in the well early in the morning.

His brother Sankaran (40) also followed suit after he noticed his brother fainting deep down the well. However, he also fainted inside the well.

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May 13,2020

Mangaluru, May 13: Kinz Foundation started distributing around 1500 food packets daily for migrant workers migrating in different parts of Dakshina Kannada district amidst coastal coronavirus lockdown.

"We are distributing daily 1,500 food packets both vegetarian and non-vegetarian. The number will be increased to 5,000," said businessman Althaf Hussain who arranged food packets on May 13.

"These are trying times. The poor migrants who are being denied of their bread due to the lockdown deserve help and we are trying to bring them food which is most basic needs.” he added.

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