Mangalore Buddhists hold candle light vigil to mourn Japan quake victims

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March 15, 2011

Mangalore, March 15: The members of Dakshina Kannada District Boudha Maha Sabha got together to observe a candle light vigil in front of Town Hall here on Tuesday night to mourn the deaths caused in Japan by a massive earthquakes and tsunami.

With the candles in hands over 50 Buddhist mourners including children, men and women offered 10 minutes of prayer “Namo Thassa Bhagavatho Arahatho Samma Sambuddhasa...”

Addressing the gathering, SR Laxman, President of Maha Sabha said, “In this hour of catastrophe, the only thing we can do is to express our condolences”

MP Umeshchandra, Shashidhar Jokatte, Vice President, Kanthappa Alangar, General Secretary, Devappa Bodh, Joint Secretary, MV Padmanabha, Harish Ekkar, Narayan Bodh, Bhasker Kavathar and others were present.


Japan's north-eastern coast was battered on Friday by an 8.9 magnitude quake, the largest on record in Japan, and an ensuing tsunami that washed over hundreds of kilometres of coastline, causing widespread destruction claiming more than 10000 lives and rendered over 2.15 lakh homeless.


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Belagavi, Mar 7: Karnataka Urban Development Minister B A Basavaraj on Saturday said that government would a take decision very soon regarding conducting city corporations election in the state.

Speaking with the media after review meeting at Belagavi city corporation (BCC) here he further said that delimitation exercise of the wards has to be done followed by reservations.

The minister stated that discussions would be held with Chief Minister B S Yediyurappa and would arrive at a decision to conduct the election in about a month’s time.

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On December 24, he received a call from one Rajendra Sharma who offered to buy the furniture and wanted to transfer the amount through payment gateways — Paytm and Google Pay, he said.

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The complainant realised that he had been cheated when the accused assured that he would return the money and asked him for another account number, he added.

An offense has been registered against the unidentified accused under section 420 (cheating) of the Indian Penal Code and Information Technology Act and further investigations are underway, he said.

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As the PPE is used only for medical treatment, police officials need to investigate who used the kit and in which hospital, who threw it in the river and the purpose of throwing it.

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