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Amit Shah coming to Karnataka to weoo OBCs

October 23, 2016

Bengaluru, Oct 23: BJP?national president Amit Shah will attend a convention of other backward classes to be held here on November 27.

amitBJP?MLC?and former minister B?J?Puttaswamy said the convention will be held at Palace Grounds and will highlight the support of the OBCs to the BJP.

Puttaswamy, who is also the chairman of the BJP?OBC?Morcha, said the party was trying to mobilise two lakh people for the event. The convention will highlight the popular programmes implemented for OBCs when B?S?Yeddyurappa was the chief minister.

The convention is seen as a move by BJP?state president Yeddyurappa to counter his colleague K?S?Eshwarappa. Eshwarappa has been associating himself with Sangolli Rayanna Brigade to consolidate the support of dalits and OBCs, defying Yeddyurappa’s diktat that such mobilisation should be done within the party forum.

The BJP?has scheduled a convention of STs at Lingsagur in Raichur district on Sunday.

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April 6,2020

Bengaluru, Apr 6: Popular Kannada comedy actor Prakash, popularly known as Bullet Prakash in the film industry, died due to multi-organ failure at a private hospital in the City on Monday.

He was 44.

He is survived by wife, one son and a daughter.

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Media Release
June 14,2020

Mangaluru, June 14: The management of Barakah International School and College has announced to waive off 33% of tuition fee in order to lessen the burden on parents who are undergoing financial crisis due to covid lockdown. 

This decision was taken after a series of virtual meetings with the Managing Director, Academic Director, Principal, Manager and PRO.

“While the school needs to continue to meet all the commitments and responsibilities towards the staff salaries, software, networking, etc, we fully understand that in the prevailing circumstances of the COVID-19 pandemic, job loss, reduction in salaries, general hardships of the self-employed businesses and the slowdown in the economy,” sated a release issued by the school.

“We would support our parent fraternity pro-actively and at the same time continue to meet the high-quality standards of our teaching- learning process and infrastructure so it has been decided that 1/3 of the tuition fee to be waived off for 2020-21,” the release said.

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July 2,2020

Kalaburagi, Jul 2: Hoteliers in Kalaburagi have claimed that their business is hit due to night curfew timings in the state.

The night curfew in the state has been imposed from 8 pm to 5 am.

Speaking to news agency, Sudarshan, a hotelier said, "Peak business hour is 7-10 pm but now we close by 8 pm. There is almost no business. We are unable to pay our workers. The government should think about it".

"We haven't received any benefit from the government so far. If we are in trouble how will we help our workers? Relaxation should be given," he added.

Meanwhile, the Karnataka government on Tuesday announced a complete lockdown on Sundays till August 2.

So far, Karnataka has reported 15,242 COVID-19 cases, according to the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare. 

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