LS bypoll: Yeddyurappa confident of his son Raghavendra’s victory in Shivamogga

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October 8, 2018

Shivamogga, Oct 8: Karnataka BJP chief and former chief minister B S Yeddyurappa breathed a sigh of relief after the district committee of the saffron party passed a unanimous resolution proposing his son B Y Raghavendra as the candidate for the byelection to the Shivamogga parliamentary seat.

Mr Raghavendra’s name was proposed by K S Eshwarappa, Shivamogga MLA. The proposal was seconded by M B Bhanuprakash, former MLC. Eshwarappa had earlier stated that there were multiple aspirants for BJP ticket for Shivamogga parliamentary seat. However, at the district committee meeting on Sunday, only Raghavendra’s name came up for discussion.

Mr. Eshwarappa told presspersons later that the name of Mr Raghavendra would be sent to party’s State committee. He is likely to file his nomination papers on October 15.

Speaking to presspersons later, B S Yeddyurappa, who had chaired the meeting said that the BJP camp in the district was in a positive frame of mind following its impressive performance in the recent elections for State Assembly and Shivamogga City Corporation. He expressed confidence that, Mr. Raghavendra would win the byelection by a huge margin.

D H Shankaramurthy, former Chairman of State Legislative Council; S. Rudre Gowda, president of party district unit; H. Halappa, Kumar Bangarappa, Araga Jnanendra and K.B. Ashok, MLAs were present in the meeting.

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May 26,2020

Bengaluru, May 26: The Karnataka government has decided cancel summer vacation for undergraduate and post-graduate students and universities during the 2020-21 academic year in the wake of severe academic loss due to COVID-19 lockdown.

Keeping in mind the loss of academic days due to the lockdown to contain the pandemic, the Higher Education Department has decided to go in for ‘Zero Vacation’. 

The state government decided to cancel all holidays particularly the summer holidays after holding a series of meetings with the Vice Chancellors and other academicians from various parts of the state.

The decision was also communicated during the review meeting of the Higher Education Department held by CM Yediyurappa on Tuesday in Bengaluru.

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February 9,2020

Tumkur, Feb 9: A special puja was performed at the Durga Parameshwari temple and the Shaneshwara temple in Karnataka's Rangana Halli village to save people from coronavirus.

Yashwanth Shastri, a priest, said: "We performed this special puja on Friday to save the world from virus and diseases like corona and H1N1."

"Our ancestors used to perform a special puja for the betterment of society and save the world from viruses when they attacked," he said.

Coronavirus originated in China's Wuhan city in December last year and has since spread to various cities around the world.

The World Health Organisation (WHO) has declared the coronavirus outbreak as a global health crisis.

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May 25,2020

Bengaluru, May 25: Heavy rain accompanied by strong winds that lashed Bengaluru last evening left hundreds of trees uprooted near the BTM layout and other areas.

The India Meteorological Department (IMD) has predicted a thunderstorm accompanied with lightning in Karnataka for the next five days.

"Thunderstorm accompanied with lightning at will prevail at isolated places over Gangetic West Bengal, Odisha, Coastal Andhra Pradesh and Yanam, South Interior Karnataka, Kerala and Mahe and Tamilnadu, Puducherry and Karaikal," the IMD said its All Indian Weather Forecast Bulletin.

According to the forecasting agency, due to strong southerly wind from the Bay of Bengal to northeast India at lower tropospheric levels, heavy to very heavy rainfall with extremely heavy falls likely at isolated places over parts of northeastern states.

In addition to that heavy to very heavy rainfall at isolated places over adjoining parts of east India during 24th-28th. "Heavy rainfall at isolated places over parts south peninsular India from May 26th-28th, 2020," the IMD said its All Indian Weather Forecast Bulletin.

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