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Don't include my name in Tipu Jayanthi invite: Anant Kumar Hegde

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October 21, 2017

Mangaluru, Oct 21: Union Minister of State for Skill Development and Entrepreneurship Anant Kumar Hegde has asked the Chief Secretary to State government to direct all concerned with the celebration of Tipu Jayanti not to include his name in the programme invitations.

Mr. Hegde, as the MP for Uttara Kannada, had last year also asked the Deputy Commissioner of Uttara Kannada not to include his name in the programme invitations. The BJP in Karnataka has been opposing State-sponsored Tipu Jayanti celebrations. Violence had erupted around it in Kodagu in 2015, when the celebrations were first introduced as a State event.

In a letter to the Chief Secretary, Mr. Hegde’s personal secretary said it was being written on the direction of the Minister. “The instructions may be brought to the notice of all departments in the State celebrating Tipu Jayanti,” the letter said. In 2016 too, Mr. Hegde had said he condemned State government celebrating Tipu Jayanti “despite stiff opposition” from a section of the people. Tipu, he claimed, was “against Kannada language and was anti-Hindu”.

“In 2016 November, Mr. Hegde was among those arrested in Uttara Kannada district for opposing the celebrations. He had threatened to disrupt the celebrations in the district.”

It may be noted here that Mr. Hegde, a five-time MP, has found himself in the middle of a controversy several times. While his derogatory remarks about Islam have drawn criticism, he was also accused of assaulting a doctor in Uttara Kannada earlier.

Many of his tweets have also attracted controversy because of their hardline Hindutva views. More recently, after taking over as the Minister, Mr. Hegde termed mediapersons a “confused lot” who “do not know how to speak, what to ask, what to write”. He said they do not even know how to faithfully write what is said. His remarks soon went viral, evoking severe criticism on social media.

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Zakariya abdulrahman
 - 
Sunday, 22 Oct 2017

Dogs should not be called for the victory of the Tiger.

Wellwisher
 - 
Saturday, 21 Oct 2017

Hope this will be your last tenure during next election people of Karnataka will give right decision.Your criminal group will be removed from the grass route.

Syed
 - 
Saturday, 21 Oct 2017

I Urge to the Union Govt. to remove this so called MP from his minister post and appoint him as Tippu Sutan probe panel to conduct a fair investigation on Tippu Sultan's Nationalism.

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January 30,2020

Jan 30: One positive case of novel coronavirus has been found in Kerala. The student was studying at Wuhan University in China. The patient is stable and is being closely monitored.

This is the first case of coronavirus that has been reported in India.

Until now, there have only been many suspected cases across the country. A total of eight patients, five of them in Mumbai, are under observation in Maharashtra for suspected coronavirus infection. Six patients were already under observation and two more people, who complained of cough and mild fever, symptoms similar to the coronavirus, were put under medical watch on Tuesday evening.

One suspected case each has been reported in Rajasthan and Chandigarh.

Novel coronavirus (nCoV) is a large family of viruses that causes illnesses ranging from the common cold to acute respiratory syndromes. However, the virus that has so far killed 170 people and affected 7,000 in China is a novel strain and not seen before.

It has emerged from a seafood and animal market in Wuhan city and is suspected to have spread to as far as the United States.

According to the World Health Organisation, the common symptoms of the novel coronavirus strain include respiratory symptoms such as fever, cough, shortness of breath and breathing difficulties.

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January 19,2020

Mangaluru, Jan 19: Karnataka’s coastal city of Mangaluru has been ranked India’s safest city with the lowest crime index (24.14) in the country, according to a survey conducted by Numbeo.

Numbeo is a crowd-sourced global database of reported consumer prices, perceived crime rates, and quality of healthcare, among other statistics.

Mangaluru was named the city with the highest safety index of 75.86 among all major Indian cities.

According to the survey, Abu Dhabi is the world's safest city which has the lowest crime index of 11.33. It has the highest safety index of 88.67 in the list of 374 global cities.

Abu Dhabi sits on number one spot - as an increase in a city's ranking means a drop in its crime rate.

Sharjah ranked fifth safest and Dubai was ranked as the seventh safest city in the world with its safety index at 82.95.

Joining Abu Dhabi in the top ten are Taipei, Quebec, Zurich, Dubai, Munich, Eskisehir, and Bern. Islamabad (74) was ranked the safest in Pakistan.

Meanwhile, Caracas in Venezuela was rated the as the most unsafe city with the highest crime index 84.90.

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Waseem Mohammed
 - 
Monday, 18 May 2020

Mangalore is the safest place in Karnataka and arguably in India.

That 'Fairman' user is a troll and his comment is fake.

I have stayed in Mangalore, Bangalore and Dubai.

 

I found Bangalore to be the worst of the 3 cities, regarding crime

 

 

Fairman
 - 
Sunday, 19 Jan 2020

This is soofi story.

 

The surveyor is in the different planet

Karnataka, specially mangalur is the 2nd most crimed city next to UP.

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January 31,2020

Jan 31: A bunch of fishermen in Kerala is being praised for releasing an endangered shark back into water. A video posted on Twitter shows the fishermen releasing the whale shark that was trapped in their nets back into the sea.

The video was posted on Twitter by InSeason Fish - a group working towards environmental conservation, sustainable fisheries and healthy oceans. Filmed in Kerala's Kozhikode, it shows fishermen on a fishing vessel with the huge whale shark.

Whale sharks are the largest fish in the ocean and can reach up to 40 feet in length. Distinguished by their white spots, this shark is on International Union for Conservation of Nature's list of endangered species.

In the video, at least seven fishermen are seen working together to lift the thrashing whale shark up with the help of ropes and releasing it into the water.

Watch the video below:

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