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Madhwaraj urges NHAI to give priority to four-laning of Malpe - Adi Udupi road

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December 31, 2017

Udupi district in-charge minister Pramod Madhwaraj has urged the National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) to give priority to the four-laning of road stretch between Malpe and Adi Udupi on Malpe-Tirthahalli National Highway 169A.

Chairing a meeting of engineers of various government departments at the taluk panchayat Hall in Udupi, Madhwaraj said that Malpe housed not just the fisheries harbour but also a beach, which attracted tourists from different parts of the country. 

The Malpe to Adi-Udupi stretch is narrow leading to traffic congestion. The NHAI should have included it in the first phase of expansion instead of the second phase, he said.

Earlier, the engineer of the NH Department said that a Rs 87-crore estimate for the widening had been sent to the head office in Delhi and it would be taken up in the second phase as it involved land acquisition.

Madhwaraj said that if the Centre provided funds for land acquisition on this stretch, the State government would acquire the land. When Madhwaraj sought the details of the concretisation of the Manipal stretch on NH169A, the engineer said that the State government had released Rs. 30 lakh and a similar amount had been put in by the department for the concreting work near Tiger Circle in Manipal.

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April 16,2020

Bengaluru, Apr 16: With two more people testing positive for COVID-19 in Karnataka, the state's corona cases count has reached 279, including 80 discharged and 12 deaths, said the government on Wednesday.

A total of 19 corona cases were confirmed in the state on Wednesday. 17 cases were reported earlier in the day, of which 15 are male patients and two are female. Of the 17 cases, nine are workers of a pharmaceutical company in Mysuru, the government stated.

Meanwhile, a 65-year-old from Chikkaballapur, who had tested positive for COVID-19, lost his life this afternoon.

"He was referred to a Bengaluru hospital with complaints of H1N1 positive, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease with obstructive sleep apnea and a past history of diabetes and hypertension," the government said.

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May 10,2020

Mangaluru, May 10: The Yenepoya Medical College Hospital at Deralakatte here has become the first private hospital in Dakshina Kannada district to get coronavirus (COVID-19) testing approval.

The laboratory at the hospital has received the nod from the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) to conduct tests for COVID-19, a release here said.

Dakshina Kannada will now have two centres for coronavirus tests, the first one being the district Wenlock hospital, the designated hospital for Covid-19.

ICMR has approved 33 testing centres in the state of which 21 are government hospitals and 12 are private hospitals.

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February 14,2020

Mangaluru, Feb 14: Police have submitted over 50 videos in a pen drive to Udupi Deputy Commissioner G Jagadeesha as evidence to violent protests that led to police firing on December 19 in which Jaleel and Nausheen died.

ACP and police nodal officer Belliyappa submitted a pen drive consisting over 50 video clips including CCTV footage. 

The police earlier had submitted 20 digital video recorder (DVR) before the court and an acknowledgement of the same was produced before the Magistrate.

Hearing on video evidence will be held at High Court on February 24.

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