Monsoon turns vigorous over coastal Karnataka

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July 23, 2019

Mangaluru, Jul 23: Southwest monsoon turned vigorous over Karnataka’s coastal and districts coming under western ghats causing landslips, affected movement of traffic and several rivers witnessed huge inflows causing flooding.

Bhatkal in Uttara Kannada district received the highest rainfall of 23 cms during the last 24 hours while temple town of Kollur in Udupi district also received torrential rains measured at 21 cms.

The other centres that received extremely heavy rainfall were Kumta 20, Shirali PTO 18, Kota, Udupi 17 each, Kundapur 16, Gersoppa 15, Mani, Ankola, Karwar 14 each, Mangaluru AP, Siddapura, Honavar 13 each, Mudubidre , Manki and Agumbe 12 each.

The district administrations of Dakshina Kannada and Udupi have declared holiday for schools and colleges on Tuesday, July 23 as part of precautionary measures. 

There were dozens of incidents of rain damage in the region. Also landslips and wind brought down many trees and electric poles in last 24 hours. 

Mescom officials said several electric poles and a couple of transformers were damaged in the city. Half a dozen poles were damaged in Kuthar area alone due to strong winds. 

Today an electric pole with transformer fell on a parked car in Mangaluru. Officials, however, said they still don’t have a count of damaged electric poles as they were busy with clearing operations and restoring power supply to affected areas.

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March 19,2020

Belagavi, Mar 19: South Western Railway (SWR) on Thursday increased the fares of the platform tickets at Belagavi, Hubballi and Ballari.

The rate of platform tickets has been increased to Rs 50 with effect from Thursday till March 31, in order to control the crowding at platforms in view of the coronavirus outbreak.

Belagavi, Hubballi, and Bellari were all big stations and maximum number of people, including both passengers and those there to see them off come or to receive them at these railway stations, a SWR official sources said.

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May 13,2020

Bengaluru, May 12: About 101 labourers bound for Rajasthan from Bengaluru in a goods truck were detained near a border Checkpost at Hirebagewadi village in Belagavi taluk on the Pune-Bengaluru national highway and have been sent into institutional quarantine on Tuesday.

Police said that the Labourers comprising of men, women and children had been travelling towards Rajasthan in a goods truck without permission from Karnataka and even from their home State Rajasthan.

In the morning hours, police and other department personnel manning the check post near...check post near Hirebagewadi detained them.

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January 28,2020

Chikkamagaluru, Jan 28: Karnataka Deputy Chief Minister and Minister for Public Works Govind Karjol on Tuesday said that he is ready to quit if the post asks him to do so to pave way for smooth expansion of the Cabinet.

Responding to a question from media persons on the issue here, he said he was ready to quit his post any time.

“If the party asks me to resign now, I will send back my official car and return by bus”, he added.

Further, he opined that there should not be efforts to seek a berth in the Cabinet based on caste.

“Putting pressure on the party based on caste is not right. The party will consider those who worked for the party and also take district-wise representation into account while filling up the vacancies”, he added.

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