Bengaluru, Sept 16: The Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP) has demanded action against St Joseph's College for sending its students in the National Cadet Corps (NCC) uniform to attend the 'Resistance Convention' against the murder of journalist Gauri Lankesh in Bengaluru on September 12.
Jayaprakash, of the BJP's student wing, made the demand in a memorandum to the vice-chancellor of Bangalore University and the director of the Department of Collegiate Education.
Shivamogga, Jun 16: The Deputy Commissioner on Tuesday announced a ban on movement of heavy goods vehicles in the Agumbe ghat section between June 15 and October 15 as a precautionary measure, as there was possibility of landslides due to heavy rain during the monsoon season.
All trucks over 12 tonnes will be prohibited from passing through the ghat, DC K B Shivakumar said in a statement here.
The authorities have suggested two alternative routes for the movement of heavy freight vehicles – the Shimoga-Thirthahalli-Sringeri-Kerekatte-Karkala-Udupi-Mangaluru route and the Shimoga-Thirthahalli-Mastikette-Hulikal-Hosangadi-Siddapura-Udupi-Mangaluru route.
Bengaluru, Aug 5: Touted as a first of its kind in the nation, a mobile Covid-19 lab was inaugurated on Wednesday by the Karnataka Medical Education Minister Dr K Sudhakar.
The lab, approved by the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) can do 9,000 RT-PCR (reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction) tests per month, an official press release said here. "This is a unique lab having all safety features and capable of producing 100% accurate results within four hours," Dr Sudhakar was quoted as saying in the press release.
The Indian Institute of Science (IISC) had developed the lab and handed it over to the Rajiv Gandhi University of Health Sciences (RGUHS).
The mobile lab can also be used for molecular diagnostic-testing and can be deployed in coronavirus hot spots quickly, the release said adding, apart from Covid-19, the lab can be utilised for testing H1N1, HCV, TB, HPV and HIV among others.
Udupi, Jan 8: Senior journalist Raviraj Valalambe passed away due to suspected cardiac arrest on Tuesday night at his residence in Kinnimulki, here. He was 50.
Raviraj was rushed to a hospital after he complained of chest pain. He breathed his last on way to medical facility.
He was the director of Prime TV, a local Kannada news channel.
He had worked as a reporter for ETV and Suvarna News channel earlier.
He is survived by wife and two daughters.
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Where were these Pillas when Sri Ravishankar used Army Jawans as his domestic servants for his PRIVATE "ART OF LIVING" marketing function, he even defied Environment & Pollution Board directions, absconded without paying fee and penalties. They should have barked then.
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