Bypolls to 3 assembly constituencies in Karnataka on February 13

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January 13, 2016

Bengaluru, Jan 13: The bypolls to three assembly constituencies in Karnataka on February 13 will have political parties on their toes, with Hebbal in Bengaluru being the hotly contested one.

bypollThe Election Commission has announced bypoll dates to Hebbal, Bidar and Deodurg (in Raichur district). Polling will be on February 13 and counting of votes on February 16. Of these three, the BJP held two seats and the Congress one.

The vacancies were caused following the death of A Venkatesh Naik, who represented Deodurg, in the Bengaluru-Nanded train accident in August 2015, while Gurupadappa Nagamarapally from Bidar and R Jagadeesh Kumar from Hebbal, died due to a cardiac arrest. Hebbal, with a little over 2 lakh voters, has many from the Congress eyeing the ticket. A new constituency carved out during delimitation in 2008, it has been the BJP's domain since then. Congress sources said there are at least a dozen contenders, including three MLCs.

Congress MLCs HM Revanna, Byrathi Suresh and RV Venkatesh are lobbying for the ticket. While Revanna had a long innings till June 2020 in the council, he was a serious contender for the seat in the 2013 assembly polls.The ticket was given to Congress veteran CK Jaffer Sharief 's grandson Rahman Sharief, who lost by 5,036 votes.

The tenure of Suresh and Venkatesh in the council will end in June 2016. Suresh, who is the cousin of Congress MLA Byrathi Basavaraj, won the council seat from the legislative assembly defeating the party's official candidate Iqbal Ahmed Saradgi. He was the JD(S) sponsored candidate and upset the calculations of all parties by bagging the highest number of votes due to cross-voting.

Sources said the Congress leadership may opt for a Muslim candidate and this narrows the choice to state youth Congress president Rizwan Arshad and Sharief 's grandson. Arshad was asked to make way for Rahman Sharief in 2013. With the constituency having roughly 65,000 Muslim voters, the chances of the party giving the ticket to a Muslim, considering there was none in the recently concluded polls to 25 seats to the council from the local authorities' constituencies, are high.

The Bengaluru Karavali Samudaya, an association of people from the coastal region settled in the city , want the ticket to be given to Ravi Shankar Shetty who lost out from the same constituency in 2008. The ticket was given to Revanna, who lost to BJP's Katta Subramanya Naidu.

Meanwhile, the BJP is considering to give the ticket to Kumar's wife as it plans to cash in on the sympathy factor. Naidu is said to have asked the ticket for his daughter-in-law as he is facing court cases on land denotification.

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Media Release
March 10,2020

Mangaluru, Mar 10:  Country’s economic condition is not permanent. All young entrepreneurs can be forward looking persons, because all bad times are followed by good times. In fact, it is good time to start your own industry, said Nitte Deemed to be University Chancellor Dr. N Vinaya Hegde. 

Addressing the gathering after inaugurating a three-day entrepreneurship symposium organized by Mangalore University and Department of M. Com and MBA, University Evening College at University College Mangalore here on Monday, he said that entrepreneurship is something you enjoy. You should belief that there is something in you to achieve your area of choice. You should get pleasure out of it. 

Ex-MLC Capt. Ganesh Karnik believed that our population is definitely a resource, but symposiums are needed to convert ideas to implementation. Coastal Karnataka is best example for successful entrepreneurship in health, education sector, he added. 

Presiding over the function, Mangalore University Vice Chancellor Prof. P Subrahmanya Yadapadithaya said that students should be universally compassionate before being an entrepreneur. There will be challenges, failures in entrepreneurship. One should trust himself, and should have courage and confidence to be innovative. One should have aspiration and passion for excellence, he added.

Young scientist, international awardee Swasthik Padma was felicitated on the occasion. Evening college Principal Dr. Ramakrishna B M, Coordinator  Dr. Yathish Kumar were present among others. Kavya P Hegde mastered the ceremony, Venkatesh Nayak presented vote of thanks.

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News Network
April 5,2020

Bengaluru, Apr 5: Fake news spreads faster and more easily nowadays through the internet, social media and instant messaging and such news about the COVID-19 pandemic have been labeled a dangerous “infodemic”.

These messages may contain useless, incorrect or even harmful information and advice, which can hamper the public health response and add to social disorder and division.

Asking people to avoid fake news on COVID-19, Hemant Nimbalkar IPS, IGP and Additional Commissioner of Police (Administration), shared a photo on his Twitter page and wrote, “One Mask For Ear Too"

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News Nerwork
July 4,2020

Bengaluru, Jul 4: Karnataka on Saturday reported its biggest single day spike of 1,839 new COVID-19 cases and 42 related fatalities, taking the total number of infections in the state to 21,549 and the death count to 335, the Health department said.

The day also saw 439 patients getting discharged after recovery; even as 226 patients in the state were undergoing treatment in ICU.

Out of 1,839 fresh cases reported on Saturday, a whopping 1,172 cases were from Bengaluru Urban alone; while 24 of the 42 deaths were from the capital city.

The previous biggest single day spike was recorded on July 3 with 1,694 cases.

As of July 4 evening, cumulatively 21,549 COVID-19 positive cases have been confirmed in the state, which includes 335 deaths and 9,244 discharges, the Health department said in its bulletin.

It said, out of 11,966 active cases, 11,740 patients are in isolation at designated hospitals and are stable, while 226 are in ICU.

Among the 42 dead are six from Bidar, four from Dakshina Kannada, three each from Kalaburagi and Dharwad and one each from Hassan and Bengaluru rural.

Of the 42, twenty-six are men, the bulletin said, adding most of them were with a history of Severe Acute Respiratory Infection (SARI), Influenza-like illness (ILI).

Out of 1,839 cases tested positive today, contacts of the majority of the cases are still under tracing.

Among the districts where the new cases were reported, Bengaluru Urban accounted for 1,172 cases, followed by Dakshina Kannada (75), Ballari (73), Bidar (51), Dharwad (45), Raichur (41), Mysuru (38), thirty seven each from Kalaburagi and Vijayapura, thirty-five each from Mandya and Uttara Kannada.

Bengaluru Urban district tops the list of positive cases, with a total of 8,345 infections, followed by Kalaburagi 1,597 and Udupi 1,276.

Among discharges, Kalaburagi tops the list with 1,189 followed by Udupi (1,103) and Bengaluru Urban (965).

A total of 6,89,526 samples were tested so far, of which 17,592 were tested on Saturday alone.

So far 6,50,876 samples have been reported as negative, and of them 15,294 were reported negative today.

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