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Colours all around as devotees enjoy 'Okuli Habba'

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February 11, 2011

Mangalore, February 11: Car street turned colorful as members of the GSB community along with others celebrated Okuli (Holi) in their traditional style on the final day of the annual Car Festival of Venkataramana Temple.

The Car Festival or 'Kodial Teru' came to an end with colorful Okuli celebrations at the temple premises on Friday as children, men and women with a variety of colours smeared on their faces, participated in the celebration with enthusiasm and enjoyed the 'Okuli Habba' by sprinkling coloured water on each other.

Okuli Habba delighted the devotees with high wattage sound systems and tankers splashing chilled water on those dancing in the scorching heat.

The six-day Kodial Theru is the event of the Gaud Saraswat Brahmin community to commemorate the divine union of Lord Venkataramana and Goddess Padmavathi.

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January 20,2020

Mysuru, Jan 20: As the Karnataka state Congress is still awaiting the appointment of Karnataka Pradesh Congress Committee (KPCC) President, MLA Satish Jarkiholi has said that in order to balance the caste and regional equations, All India Congress Committee (AICC) was planning to create four working presidents posts for KPCC.

Talking to media personnel here on Sunday, Mr Jarkiholi, who is considered to be in the race for the post, said that a clear picture about the constitution of additional posts of the working president in the KPCC would emerge in a week.

He added that it has been delayed due to the Assembly elections in Delhi.

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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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Mysuru, Mar 3: Three leopard cubs were rescued by a team of Forest Department in Mysuru on Tuesday.

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The villagers alerted the forest department which rescued the three cubs.

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