3 Good Samaritans who rescued countless accident victims honoured

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August 16, 2017

Mangaluru, Aug 16: Three Good Samaritans, who have been helping accident victims and  10 students from government schools, who did well in the Class 10 examination were among those felicitated by district in-charge Minister B. Ramanath Rai during the Independence Day celebrations at the Nehru Maidan in the city.

Mr. Rai presented “Jeevarakshak award” to Sunil Ivan Menezes from Vagga in Bantwal for rescuing nearly 150 accident victims in the last 15 years. Mr. Menezes has also been taking care of people abandoned on the streets.

The award was also presented to Sharat Kumar from Thokkottu, who has saved the lives of nearly 100 accident victims in the last 15 years, and Naveen Kumar from Uppinangady, who has saved the lives of 20 accident victims.

Students get laptops

The Department of Public Instruction has been giving away every year laptops to top three scorers in the Class 10 examination. These laptops are given, apart from the top three scorers of the district, to toppers in the seven educational blocks.

Mr. Rai presented laptops to Sanath Raghava U., a student of Government Pre University College, Puttur, who topped the district with 615 marks. Shivaram from Government Pre University College Siddakatte, Bantwal, (610 marks), Prajesh from Government Secondary School Kashipatna, Belthangady (606) and Roopa from Government School, Keyyur, Puttur (606), were the other three toppers from the district to receive the laptops.

Mr. Rai presented laptops to Pratham A. Acharya from Chelyar, Puneeta from Balmatta and Prem Sagar from Chelyar, who were toppers from the Mangaluru North Block. Prateeksha from Kuppepadavu, Harshini from Permannoor and Sharanya S., who topped the Mangaluru South Block, also received the laptops.

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Saleem Panja
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Wednesday, 16 Aug 2017

Minister UT Khader also entitle for Jeevarakshak award, he  also appeared at accident spot.

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June 8,2020

Bengaluru, Jun 8: Normal life is slowly returning to normal across Karnataka with the state government further easing the restrictions by throwing open places of worship, hotels, malls for the public.

Despite these places being opened after a gap of more than two months, the places wore a deserted look as the people are and cautious and not ready to take of risk of venturing out amid the ongoing Corona threat.

"Business is not as heavy as expected though it was allowed after a gap of almost three months. You can see for yourself the crowd, it is not what it should have been in a commercial area like this prior to the imposition of lockdown. However, hope it will improve", a Cloth merchant B Ramesh told UNI when asked for his reaction.

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June 2,2020

Mangaluru, Jun 2: The Karnataka Muzarai department, whose main income comes through temple and other religious places of worship, has incurred a loss of Rs 600 Crore in revenue during the lock-down, Minister for Muzrai Kota Srinivas Poojary said on Monday.

Addressing reporters here, he said the Kollur Sri Mookambika temple alone lost revenue of about Rs 14 crore it was earning during April and May.

Around 300 A and B grade temples under Muzrai (Hindu religious institutions and charitable endowments) department in the State lost around 35 per cent of their annual income, he said.

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July 3,2020

New Delhi, Jul 3: The aviation regulator DGCA said on Friday it was extending the suspension of scheduled international passenger flights in the country till July 31 but added that some international scheduled services on selected routes may be permitted on a case to case basis.

Scheduled international passenger flights were suspended in India on March 23 due to the coronavirus pandemic.

Modifying its June 26 circular that stated that scheduled international passenger flights will remain suspended till July 15, 2020, the regulator stated on Friday it has decided to extend the deadline to July 31, 2020.

However, international scheduled flights may be allowed on selected routes by the competent authority on a case to case basis,” said the circular by the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA).

Air India and other private domestic airlines have been operating unscheduled international repatriation flights under the Vande Bharat Mission, which was started on May 6 by the Central government.

India resumed scheduled domestic passenger flights on May 25, after a gap of two months.

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