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'Tour de difference' to help underprivileged

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August 3, 2011

Mangalore, Aug 3: Make a Difference (MAD), a youth volunteer network that works with underprivileged children will undertake 'Tour de difference' where five volunteers will cycle to 12 Indian cities, and cover 4240 kilometers in the months of August and September.

The cycling expedition which will kick off at City Centre on August 7 will visit Mumbai, Pune, Hyderabad, Vijayawada, Chennai, Vellore, Bangalore, Mysore, Coimbatore, Thiruvananthapuram and Cochin.

Addressing a press meet on Tuesday, MAD Mangalore chapter President Greeshma Rai said that the main objective of the expedition is to raise Rs 100 for every kilometer the cyclists cover, and thereby meet the costs incurred by the Mangalore chapter of MAD on Cambridge syllabus textbooks for the 300 children under its wings and to also promote and stress the importance of education to the future of our country.

The cyclists will stop for a day to interact with the local community and will also visit centers where MAD works. The community can also participate with a wall-signing ceremony at one of the centers and can also join the team in cycling on shorter legs.

The flag off of Tour de Difference on August 7 will be presided over by Deputy Commissioner Dr N S Channappa Gowda, MLA Yogish Bhat, Mayor Praveen, Police Commissioner Seemanth Kumar Singh and others.

Go MAD

To kick off the cycling tour, MAD is organising a three-day gala called 'Go MAD' in association with City Centre from August 6.

Various interschool/college competitions such as spelling bee, style mantra, mom and me, comic-on, one minute fame, minute to win, rock on (karaoke), dance-a-thon and MAD race (treasure hunt) have been planned.

Students can register for the competitions either in their schools/colleges or in City Centre on August 5.

Go MAD inauguration on August 6 will be presided over by Yenopoya Medical and Dental College Orthodontics and Dentofacial Orthopedics Head Dr Akther Husain, Department of Women and Child Welfare Deputy Director A Shakuntala and others.

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March 2,2020

Udupi, Mar 2: The Kundapur police carried out raids at various clubs in Kundapur Sub-division limits and arrested around 50 persons involved in illegal gambling and seized Rs 2.5 lakhs from their possession, the police said on Monday.

According to the police, on Sunday night, based on credible information, the Kudapur Sub-division police led by ASP Hariram Shanker and team raided various clubs in Goliyangadi, Siddapur, Koteswar and Basrur where the accused were found gambling illegally.

All the clubs had taken court permission for recreation but were illegally indulging in gambling. They had also violated the court conditions and were involved in illegal gambling.

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May 17,2020

Mangaluru, May 17: With the detection of two more covid-19 positive cases in Mangaluru, the total number of cases in Dakshina Kannada today mounted to 52.

A 35-year-old woman who was under quarantine along with her husband after returning from Maharashtra today tested positive for the coronavirus. 

A 31-year-old man also tested positive for covid-19.  More details to follow.

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April 13,2020

Bengaluru, Apr 13: Eminent scientist and NITI Aayog member V K Saraswat said on Monday the number of COVID- 19 cases is not going to go beyond what's being reported daily in India as he maintained that the country is in the process of flattening the curve.

The former Scientific Adviser to Defence Minister said the coronavirus positive cases have seen a sharper rise in the last four-five days because of increase in the number of testing.

"It's a good sign; all those asymptomatic cases lying hidden they are also coming out," Saraswat told PTI. "We certainly had a catalytic factor which was basically this (Nizamuddin) Markaz problem which has actually created clusters at different places and that has also been one of the factors for the kind of rise that has taken place."

But he said India is in a much better shape compared to other nations in the battle against COVID-19. "I can only say that the rate is not going to go beyond what has been going on now, may be 700 to 800 cases per day. So, we are in the process of flattening the curve."

The government's decision to declare nation-wide lockdown has paid dividends, Saraswat, a former chief of the Defence Research and Development Organisation, said.

Noting that India has seen a series of virus attacks in the last 15-20 years including Chikungunya and Dengue, he said the emphasis now should be on more and more R & D to find vaccines in advance.

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