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JDS is now a divided house: Some MLAs ready to support BJP govt?

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July 27, 2019

Bengaluru, Jul 27: A few MLAs of Janata Dal (Secular) have reportedly told former chief minister HD Kumaraswamy that external support can be extended to the BJP government in Karnataka, according to former minister GT Devegowda.

Barely four days after losing power, the JD(S) legislators were a divided lot over their next course of action.

Speaking to media persons here GTD said that the former chief minister would take the final decision.

The difference of opinion among the legislators surfaced in a meeting convened by Mr Kumaraswamy on Friday night to decide the party's future course of action in the wake of upheavals in Karnataka politics.

After the meeting of party legislators in Bengaluru, Mr Devegowda said, "We (MLAs) discussed the future course of action. Some have suggested that we should sit in the opposition, while some legislators are of the opinion that we should support the BJP from outside."

"We have authorised Mr Kumaraswamy to take the final decision," he said.

The development came on a day BJP leader BS Yediyurappa was sworn in as chief minister for a fourth time in a sudden twist to the protracted high political drama in the state with a big challenge to manage numbers staring him in the face.

Shortly after taking the oath, Mr Yediyurappa said that he would move a motion of confidence in the Assembly on July 29, to prove his majority.

Mr Yediyurappa alone took the oath succeeding Mr Kumaraswamy three days after the Congress-JDS coalition government crumbled under the weight of a rebellion by a big chunk of its lawmakers, when it lost the motion of confidence in the state assembly.

The JD(S) and its ally in the previous government - the Congress - had alleged that the BJP was the root cause behind unseating them from power by luring and threatening their MLAs.

Meanwhile, JD(S) patriarch and former prime minister HD Deve Gowda, in a tweet, congratulated Mr Yediyurappa on his swearing-in.

Amid speculations about BJP and JD(S) joining hands, Mr Yediyurappa had recently ruled out any possibility of alliance with the regional party, having bitter experience in the past.

The BJP and JD(S) had formed a coalition government in 2006 with Mr Kumaraswamy as chief minister and Mr Yediyurappa as his deputy, under a power sharing formula of 20 months each.

That government had collapsed as the JD(S) did not transfer power to BJP, paving the way for the party to win elections in 2008.

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April 18,2020

Mangaluru, Apr 18: Three people, including a woman, who were being treated at the city's Wenlock Hospital have been discharged after they recovered from Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19).

With this, a total of 12 people who had tested positive for the virus until Thursday have been discharged from various hospitals in Dakshina Kannada.

A 39-year-old advocate from Uppinangady tested positive for Covid -19 on Friday, he has been admitted to the Wenlock Hospital and is being treated. With this, only one COVID-19 positive patient is being treated at Wenlock Hospital till Friday evening.

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February 28,2020

Bengaluru, Feb 28: Historian S. Shettar, 85, breathed his last early on February 28 in Bengaluru. He was suffering from respiratory problems and was hospitalised for over a week.

Shettar was known for his multi-disciplinary work, encompassing linguistics, epigraphy, anthropology, the study of religions and art history. He had extensively worked on the Jain practice of ritual death in Karnataka and Asoka edicts. He had studied and compiled early edicts in Kannada and worked extensively on the growth of Kannada language down the ages.

Born in 1935 at Hampasagara, Ballari district, he went on to study at Cambridge University and started his career as a Professor of History at Karnatak University, Dharwad, his alma mater. He later headed the National Museum Institute of the History of Art, Conservation and Museology in 1978 and Indian Council for Historical Research in 1996. He was also a visiting professor at the National Institute of Advanced Studies, Bengaluru.

He was a bilingual historian who wrote in English for most of his career, but started writing in Kannada in later years. In the last two decades, he developed a keen interest in linguistics and wrote multiple books on classical Kannada and Prakrit. His 2007 book “Shangam Tamilagam” is considered a seminal work in the study of the early period of Dravidian languages. It won him Bhasha Samman from Central Sahitya Akademi. He later wrote two works on Halegannada, classical Kannada. His most recent work was “Prakrita Jagadvalaya” in 2018.

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August 7,2020

Udupi, Aug 6: Three people including police personnel entered a well and rescued an elderly woman who had accidentally fallen into Udupi on Thursday.

A police sub-inspector and two others got down into a well and rescued the elderly woman, who accidentally fell into well at near her home at Kukkikatte.

The locals immediately alerted to police and fire and rescue personal.

Udupi town police sub-inspector Sadashiva Govroji, fire and rescue staff Vinayaka and a local Auto-driver Rajesh Nayak got into the well and brought the woman out safely.

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