Land grab: Two women, man get one year in jail, Rs 5,000 fine

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February 21, 2019

Bengaluru, Feb 21: Two women were among three convicted and sentenced to one year in jail for encroaching government land by the Karnataka Land Grabbing (Prohibition) Special Court here on Monday.

Considering the documents submitted by special public prosecutor Shailaja Krishna Nayak, a special court bench, comprising judicial member RH Raddi and administrative member KR Niranjan, imposed a one-year jail term and a fine of Rs 5,000 in each of the three cases.

Shanthamma, a resident of Avinahalli in Sagar, Shivamogga district, has been held guilty for grabbing and illegally cultivating three acres of reserve forest land, while Danamma from Guttanahalli, also in Sagar, was found to illegally possess and cultivate 2.2 acres of land which forms part of Belandur mini forest.

In the third case, Phakira Hanumatha Poojari was held guilty for illegal possession of 4.2 acres of gomala land (pasture land for community use) at Basavalli in Haliyal, Uttara Kannada district.

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Only worry is how to quarantine large number of people: Karnataka CM

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March 23,2020

Bengaluru, Mar 23: The Karnataka Government will impose stricter restrictions till March 31 to tackle the spread of COVID-19, Chief Minister B S Yediyurappa said on Monday.

''While all non-essential government establishments will also be closed from today, we are discussing on whether there should be a total shutdown similar to what was in place on Sunday during 'Janata Curfew'. We will take a call on this after discussing this with Opposition leaders by evening,'' he added.

Addressing press persons after a meeting with doctors and experts from private hospitals, the Chief Minister said free food will be served to the poor in Indira Canteens all through the day.

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2,313 new COVID-19 cases in Karnataka, tally rises to 33,418

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July 10,2020

Bengaluru, Jul 10: With 2,313 more people testing positive for coronavirus in Karnataka in the last 24 hours, its overall tally of patients rose to 33,418 on Friday, health officials said.

57 patients died in Karnataka in the last 24 hours, with majority (27) of them from Bengaluru, taking the state''s death toll to 543, the officials added.

Bengaluru accounted for 1,447 or 63 per cent of the new COVID-19 cases, spiking its tally to 15,329, out of which 11,687 are active cases.

The city alone accounts for 46 per cent of all the cases in the state.

As many as 45 deaths had Severe Acute Respiratory Infection (SARI) as a common symptom.

Among the new cases, excluding Bengaluru, Dakshina Kannada accounted for 139 infections, followed by Vijayapura (89), Ballari (66), Kalaburagi (58), Yadgir and Mysuru (51 each) among others.

On Friday, a record 1,003 patients got discharged, 601 of them in Bengaluru alone with the total number of discharges rising up to 13,836.

Until now, Karnataka has tested 7.79 lakh samples for Covid, out of which 7.28 lakh tested negative.

Despite the record number of discharges, patients in ICU rose to 472.

Of the 33,418 cases, 19,035 are active in the state.

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Raghavendra Kini is the new chairman of Udupi Urban Development Authority

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June 26,2020

Udupi, June 26: BJP leader K Raghavendra Kini has been appointed as the new Chairman of Udupi Urban Development Authority (UUDA) by Government of Karnataka.

A well-known businessman, Raghavendra Kini is also serving as the president of Kunjibettu Consumers’ Multipurpose Co-operative Union.

Along with him, the State Government has appointed Suma Naika, Praveen Kumar Shetty and Kishor Kumar as members of the Authority.

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