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Baraguru Ramachandrappa to chair 82nd Kannada Sahitya Sammelan

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October 10, 2016

New Delhi, Oct 10: The Kannada Sahitya Parishat on Sunday selected 69-year-old writer Baraguru Ramachandrappa to chair its 82nd Akhila BharathaKannada Sahitya Sammelan to be held at Raichur in December.

BaraguruThe Kannada Sahitya Parishat's state executive committee meeting held here on Sunday selected Ramachandrappa to chair the annual literary conference, Parishat president Manu Baligar told reporters after the meeting.

Ramachandrappa, born in Baraguru village in Tumakuru district, had worked as a professor of Kannada at Bangalore University.

He served as president of the Kannada Sahitya Academy and Chairman, Kannada Development Authority. Apart from writing novels, poems, short stories, plays, research works and literary criticism, he has also directed many Kannada films. Several of his movies have won state and national awards.

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April 29,2020

Mangaluru, Apr 29: District in-charge Minister Kota Srinivas Poojary on Wednesday inaugurated a mobile fever clinic to cure COVID-19 patients.

Karnataka State Road Transport Corporation (KSRTC) has converted one of its buses into a clinic in Mangaluru to treat COVID-19 patients.

The mobile fever clinic has a bed for the patient and a cabin for the doctor. There is also a seating facility, medicine box, wash-basin, sanitizer, soap oil, a separate water facility, and fans.

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April 18,2020

Mangaluru, Apr 18: Three people, including a woman, who were being treated at the city's Wenlock Hospital have been discharged after they recovered from Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19).

With this, a total of 12 people who had tested positive for the virus until Thursday have been discharged from various hospitals in Dakshina Kannada.

A 39-year-old advocate from Uppinangady tested positive for Covid -19 on Friday, he has been admitted to the Wenlock Hospital and is being treated. With this, only one COVID-19 positive patient is being treated at Wenlock Hospital till Friday evening.

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July 10,2020

Mangaluru, July 10: Dakshina Kannada, which has emerged as one of the hotspots of covid-19 in Karnataka, has recorded at least six novel coronavirus related deaths in past 24 hours. 

According to sources, four people lost their battle with the novel coronavirus in Wenlock, the designated covid hospital. 

A 35-year-old man from Hosabettu, who was tested positive for COVID-19 recently, died at the Wenlock COVID hospital in the morning.

A 58-year-old woman from Thokkottu, a 67-year-old man from Ullal and a 65-year-old man from Falnir also passed away in the same hospital. 

Two other covid patients passed away in private hospitals. 

With this, the total number of death of covid patients in the district rose to 36. 

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