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Modi, Sonia, Rahul among others to campaign in Kasaragod as election nears

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May 3, 2016

Kasaragod, May 3: With just two weeks to go for the election, the leaders of the national parties are turning their attention to Kerala with the promise of taking the political debate to newer directions.

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The campaign for the assembly election in Kerala was so far dominated by the war of words between Opposition Leader V S Achuthanandan and Chief Minister Oommen Chandy.

Congress leader and former defence minister A K Antony has already started his campaign in Kerala by stating that the aim of United Democratic Front (UDF) is to ensure a BJP-free assembly. He said that there is a close fight going on between the Left Democratic Front (LDF) and UDF.

Congress president Sonia Gandhi will reach Kerala on May 9 while Rahul Gandhi will be in the state on May 11 to 12. Other leaders like Ghulam Nabi Azad, Mallikarjun Kharge and Sachin Pilot are expected to visit Kerala to campaign for UDF.

An array of national leaders of BJP led by the Prime Minister Narendra Modi are expected to reach Kerala to lead the campaign of the state unit.

BJP president Amit Shah's programme in Kerala is from May 1 to 14. Prime Minister Narendra Modi will reach Kerala on May 6. He will address 5 rallies from May 6 to 11. For the first time the PM will address a massive crowd in Kasaragod on May 8 at 9:30 a.m.

Nine other ministers including Union home Minister Rajnath Singh are expected to land in the state for campaigning for BJP. CPI(M) leaders like Prakash Karat and Sitaram Yechury have started campaigning for LDF in Kerala. Their main task would be to defend the party's strategy in West Bengal to team up with Congress.

BJP state president Kummanam Rajashekharan said that A K Antony's statement that BJP will not open its account in Kerala is his "day dream". He added that state saw the worst communal riot when A K Antony was the Chief Minister.

V S Achuthanandan said that Antony should tell this to his disciple Oommen Chandy, indirectly suggesting that Oommen Chandy has made a deal with BJP. The VS-Chandy war of words started with the speech that VS Achuthanandan made at Darmadam in which he said that there were 31 cases pending against Chandy and 136 cases against he and his cabinet colleagues.

Oommen Chandy retorted by stating that it is a lie and filed a defamation suit against V S Achuthanandan. He also made a complaint against him to the EC. He said if Achuthanandan is making such statements the people will see to it that he is keeping quiet.

Achuthanandan replied that Chandy is asking people to revolt and said that he will furnish all the details of the cases to the Court.

Comments

Abdullah
 - 
Wednesday, 4 May 2016

All thieves coming to Kasargod now.
Till now where was these thieves.

Jeevan
 - 
Tuesday, 3 May 2016

This time congress, we have seen Modi's ache din people have learnt more from it.

Mohan
 - 
Tuesday, 3 May 2016

BJP will win the seat in majority.

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January 17,2020

Bengaluru, Jan 17: Six persons, said to be supporters of Social Democratic Party of India, have been arrested in connection alleged attempt to murder a member of RSS in Bengaluru.

Varun Bhopala (34), a resident of Sarakki in JP Nagar, was attacked while he was on his way to his father's shop near JC Road after attending a pro-CAA event organised by the RSS and other Hindutva organisations on December 22, 2019.

Police commissioner Bhaskar Rao said the arrested are Irfan alias Mohammed Irfan (33), Syed Akbar alias Mechanic Akbar (46), Syed Siddiq Akbar (30), Akbar Basha (27), Sanaulla Sharif (28) and Sadiq UL Ameen (39) - all residents of KG Halli in East and North Bengaluru.

Rao said the arrested wanted to attack and kill the leaders who took part in the pro-CAA event. They initially pelted seven stones to scatter the crowd so that they can attack the leaders, but they failed. Later, they saw Varun walking out of the crowd wearing a saffron shirt. So the arrested followed him and attacked him with lethal weapons. Assuming he is dead, the gang fled on their bikes towards Bidadi.

''The SDPI activists were funded by their leaders to create a disturbance, kill Hindu organisation leaders,'' Rao said. "I have formed a special team to investigate in-depth about the SDPI activities and take necessary action,'' he added.

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January 10,2020

Mangaluru, Jan 10: A gang of smugglers, who were planning to illegally export 4,000 kg of red sandalwood worth Rs 2 crore through New Mangalore Port, were nabbed in a joint operation by the anti-rowdy squad of Mangaluru North sub-division and sleuths of Panambur police station.

The arrested have been identified as Tabrez (36), Lohith (35), Rakesh Shetty (44), Hussain kunhimonu (45) and Farooq (45).

Commissioner of Police Dr P S Harsha said that red sandalwood worth Rs 2 crore were seized from the accused.

The other seized properties from the arrested include a Maruti Brezza, Renault Pulse, Tata Ace, two plywood boxes and seven mobile phones valued Rs 19 lakh.

Based on a tip off, the police raided a godown on the road leading to Jokatte from Baikamlady Industrial Area and seized 4,000 kg of red sanders worth  Rs 2 crore.

A case has been registered under Sections 50, 62, 80, 104 of Karnataka Forest Act and 144, 165 of Karnataka Forest Rules at the Panambur police station.

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July 5,2020

Bengaluru, Jul 5: A total number of 32 SSLC students, who took exams between June 25 and July 3 have tested positive for the coronavirus.

Eighty other students are in home quarantine. As per a press release from the Karnataka government here as of July 3, more than 7.60 lakh students wrote the exam, with 14,745 absentees. The report from the government stated that 3,911 students did not attend the exams as they were in a containment zone. A total of 863 students had not attended the exams as they were unwell.

Last week, a Class 10 student from Hassan had tested coronavirus positive. The student reportedly wrote an exam on June 25, despite having taken the coronavirus test. His positive result reportedly came shortly after he finished writing the exam.

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