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Ashwin Naik navigates to pole position; wins all national championships

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July 24, 2017

Mangaluru, Jul 24: Ace rallyist from the coastal city, Ashwin Naik navigates to the pole position at the 9th edition of Maruti Suzuki annual motorsports rally, ‘Dakshin Dare’. The treacherous 2000 kilometre dirt rally was conquered by Ashwin accompanied by ace driver Suresh Rana to win their second consecutive title and to seal their victories in all national championships across the board .

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The duo drove through some of the toughest, unused village and hill roads in India starting from Bengaluru and passing through the undulating terrains of Chitradurga and Belgaum. As an addition to the championship this year, the participants had to drive through Kohlapur and finish in Pune.

Ashwin and Suresh beat the other 180 participants in this high speed rally to win their second consecutive Dakshin Dare’s ‘Ultimate Cars’ title. Not taking into consideration the previous seven titles as both Ashwin and Rana were in the organizing team.

The most recent achievement of the duo was the ‘Maruti Suzuki Desert Storm 2017’ which they won four times earlier. “We are the champions of Raid-De-Himalaya five times in a row and in October this year we will be defending the same title for the sixth time in a row. We had also won five Sub-Himalayan rally championships among multiple other cross country national championships. All this on the Maruti Suzuki Grand Vitara”, Ashwin Naik said.

After missing the pole position of Dakshin Dare in the past year, Ashwin Naik won the same title this year to fulfil his victories in all national rally championships. “This victory was essential to me as it would complete the circle of all Indian rally championships. Dakshin Dare was the only pending victory and this achievement seals my victory streak”, he said after his arrival to Mangaluru from Pune.

The coming weekend, Ashwin is to be part of the Indian National Championship of Mahindra Adventure, ‘Rally of Coimbatore’. He will be accompanied by driver Amit Rajit Ghosh to defend the same title. (eom)

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May 17,2020

Bengaluru, May 17: At least 54 new COVID-19 positive cases have emerged since last evening, raising Karnataka's tally to 1,146, a health official said today.

Among the 1,146 cases, 611 are active and isolated in designated hospitals across the state, 497 patients got discharged and 37 died of the virus.

Of the new cases, Mandya district alone reported 22 cases, followed by 10 in Kalaburgi, 6 in Hassan, 4 in Dharward, 3 each in Kolar and Yadgir, 2 each in Dakshina Kannada and Shivamogga and 1 each in Udupi and Shivamogga.

New Cases Reported: 54
Total Active Cases: 611
Total Discharges: 497
Total Covid Deaths: 37
Death of Covid +ve patient due to Non-Covid cause: 1
Total Positive Cases: 1146

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August 6,2020

Bengaluru, Aug 6: With rains in several parts of Karnataka amid Covid-19 pandemic, state Medical Education Minister K Sudhakar on Thursday asked the people to maintain caution and contact the Health department helpline in case of any symptoms.

"There is heavy rain in several districts of the state's coastal, Malnad and north interior regions. People have to observe utmost caution during these rains amid corona infections. In case of any symptoms like fever, cough and cold immediately call the health department helpline 104," Sudhakar tweeted.

As of August 5 evening, cumulatively 1,51,449 Covid-19 positive cases have been confirmed in the state, which includes 2,804 deaths and 74,679 discharges.

Among the districts where the new cases were reported, Bengaluru urban tops the list accounting for 64,881 cases.

Regarding Bengaluru, Sudhakar said, there are 4,276 beds across 11 Covid care centres in Bengaluru.

"As of today morning, 936 of them i.e., 27.79 percent are vacant. Out of the 3,346 patients, 306 patients are due for discharge today," he said in another tweet.

Aimed at availing beds at Covid-19 hospitals for symptomatic patients and those in need, the government had decided to shift all asymptomatic patients to Covid care centres.

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July 24,2020

Bengaluru, Jul 24: The Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) commissioner on Thursday issued a public apology after "local staff" sealed the doors of two apartments with metal sheets in a building where a positive case of COVID-19 was reported in Dommalur.

Earlier on Thursday, BBMP sealed doors of two flats near Dommalur, in a building wherein a COVID-19 case was reported. A woman with two children, along with an elderly couple stayed in those flats. After the woman tweeted about the incident, BBMP officials removed steel sheets from doors.

Taking the matter into consideration, BBMP Commissioner N Manjunatha Prasad, took to Twitter to express an apology for "over-enthusiasm" of his officials.

He tweeted, "We are committed to address any issues that result in stigma. Apologies for the over enthusiasm of the local staff."

He also said the BBMP is committed to treating all citizens with dignity. "I have ensured removing of these barricades immediately. We are committed to treat all persons with dignity.

The purpose of containment is to protect the infected and to ensure uninfected are safe," he tweeted.

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