Lucky escape for students as school roof collapses during Ramadan special leave

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June 30, 2016

Kasaragod, Jun 30: In what could have been a major tragedy, a portion of the Government Junior Basic School at Peral, near Kumbla, caved in under incessant rain. It was indeed a lucky escape for students as the school was closed for Ramadan for the past few days.

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The tile-roofed block, the middle portion of which caved in, housed Class 3 students. Senior Revenue and Education department officials visited the spot to assess the damage.

Kasaragod has been witnessing heavy rains in the past three days resulting in sharp rise in water level in major rivers here. Damage to property has been estimated at Rs.23,92,760.

The district has so far reported 1001.60 mm rainfall, which saw standing crops in 26.25 acres suffering damage. Five houses were destroyed and 115 were damaged.

Power supply was disrupted in several areas and vehicular movement was affected with huge trees falling across roads. No loss of life was reported during the day, official sources said. In view of unrelenting rain, the administration had declared Wednesday a holiday for all educational institutions barring professional colleges.

Though there was a letdown in heavy rain in the district since Wednesday noon, widespread damage to properties was reported in the heavy rain that lashed the district on Tuesday night. A house was destroyed and 47 houses were destroyed in the rain.

The district administration opened one more relief camp in Vythiri taluk.

Five members of two families in Kottathara village were shifted to the camp.

The damage to the houses is estimated to the tune of Rs.7.32 lakh. As many as 99 persons were shifted to four relief camps in the district in the past three days.

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June 18,2020

Bengaluru, Jun 18: Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) has deployed a COVID-19 infection control "surveillance team" to look after travellers coming from other states.

Those coming to Bengaluru Urban and Bengaluru Rural Districts must undergo a 14-day home quarantine.

The Bengaluru Mayor today inaugurated surveillance team at Dr Raj Kumar Glass House.

Deputy Mayor Ramamohan Raju, Health Standing Committee Chairman Manjunath Raju G, Special Commissioners D Randeep, Manjunath, Superintendent of Police Mr Murugan and other officials were also present in the event.

There are 7,944 coronavirus cases in Karnataka including 2,843 active cases and 4,983discharged. 114 patients have succumbed to COVID-19 in the state. 844 positive cases were reported in Bengaluru Urban and 39 in Bengaluru Rural.

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March 5,2020

Mangaluru, Mar 5: Chairman of Karnataka Christian Development Committee (CDC) Joylus DSouza on Thursday welcomed the allocation of a Rs 200-crore grant in the state budget for the development of the Christian community.

In his message to the Chief Minister B S Yediyurappa released to the media, DSouza said, "Christians in Karnataka welcome with gratitude the announcement of Rs 200-crore allocation for the community in the budget for fiscal 2020-21."

In 2011-12 fiscal also, Yediyurappa as Chief Minister had allocated a grant of Rs 50 crore for the community for the first time in the history of the state, he said.

The grant of Rs 200 crore this year shows Yediyurappas concern for the Christians.

I congratulate and offer my sincere gratitude on behalf of the Christian community of the state to Yediyurappa, DSouza said.

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January 16,2020

Bengaluru, Jan 16: It was necessary to revise rates under the ECHS, CGHS and GIPSA schemes for private hospitals to be able to sustain, doctors from private hospitals have opined.

Under the banner of the Association of Healthcare Providers of India (AHPI), doctors from top private hospitals in the city spoke about the dues pending from the union government schemes. They said they could not give a deadline as to when they would stop offering the scheme.

In a press release issued here on Thursday association said, which had previously told the government that they would not treat patients under the scheme owing to dues, mellowed down after the government released Rs 250 crore out of the Rs 1,000 crore dues.

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