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Coastal Karnataka readies for Ganesh Chaturthi revelry

August 31, 2011

Mangalore, August 31: With only a few hours to go for the arrival of Ganesha, in the Hindu households, the preparations for the annual Ganesh Chaturthi, also known as 'Vinayak Chaturthi' or 'Vinayaka Chavthi festival, have reached their peak.

Although Ganesh Chaturthi festival commences on the fourth day of the Hindu month of Bhadrapada, it begins a day earlier with married woman worshipping Gauri or Parvati, the mother of Ganesha.

A walk round the city revealed market thronged by festival shoppers, buying various festival linked items from pulses and cereals to vegetables, fruits and sugarcanes, to decorative items and fireworks.

Despite soaring prices of essential commodities and various difficulties arising in the day-to-day life, the devotees are seen to be eagerly waiting for the arrival of the deity.

Setting a joyous and celebration mood everywhere, the Ganapathi idol makers at some of the places in the city like Car Street and Mannagudda too are carrying out their task of Ganesha idol preparation in a full swing.

The idols of Ganesha in various avatars line up on the main streets well ahead of the Ganesh Chaturthi, enabling the buyers to choose according to their wish.

Prabhakar Rao from Mannagudda who belongs to the famous idol making family of Late Mohan Rao said that he has received hundreds of orders for Ganesh idol preparation this year. “It is for the 74th year that our family is preparing Ganapathi idols. We design idols for Sanghaniketan, NMPT, Horticulture Department, KMF and MCF among others. The whole family is involved in this idol making process since two months and we do it with devotion, keeping aside the profit motive,” says Prabhakar Rao.

Special elaborate meals are prepared on the occasion, along with traditional sweetmeats like payasam, obbattu, kadubu, sweetened milk of coconut and so on.

Music also forms an integral part of the celebrations with aartis or songs of praise of the deity sung by the devotees during the worship. Bhaktigeetas or devotional songs, too are sung before Ganesha, with the accompaniment of musical instruments.

Sarvajanik or community Ganeshotsavas currently is working round the clock to present the respective Ganeshotsava pandals, in the most impressive way.

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January 21,2020

Bengaluru, Jan 21: A private hospital in Bengaluru, the capital of Karnataka, on Tuesday claimed that it has successfully performed a live liver transplant on a Jehovah's Witness from Nigeria, by not using blood or blood products, in order to protect the patient's religious beliefs.

It is said that Jehovah's Witnesses are followers of a Christian faith that prohibits the use of blood or blood products during their treatment. Gehojadak (37), a Jehovah's Witness follower, had developed decompensated liver disease and visited more than three countries seeking treatment over the last four years but was turned away by most doctors due to the highly risky nature of surgery, Aster CMI Hospital said.

The surgery was challenging compared to a normal liver transplant because in order to protect the patient's religious beliefs, the medical team could not use blood or blood products (Fresh frozen plasma, Cryoprecipitate, Platelets etc), it said in a release, adding that very few such surgeries have been successfully conducted worldwide.

The patient's brother was the donor, the hospital said, adding, without a liver transplant, Gehojadak's chances of survival were less than 10 per cent over the next two years. A team of liver specialists from the Hospital thoroughly reviewed the patient's medical history before recommending a bloodless liver transplant and charted out a feasible pathway to make the surgery a success.

"This transplant was especially challenging as we did not have the safety net (of using blood) even if the patient's life was at risk due to their advance directive. We have performed other non-transplant liver surgeries in Jehovah's Witnesses and this gave us the confidence to take on Gehojadak's transplant," Dr Rajiv Lochan, Consultant Liver Transplant Surgeon, said.

The critical surgery took a 12-hour period to complete where two teams of specialists with close to 25 doctors including anaesthetists, intensivists worked in absolute sync with each other and Gehojadak finally received a life-saving liver transplant, the Hospital said. In a period of two weeks, the patient and his brother were fit enough to go home and were discharged from the hospital.

"Even if their haemoglobin levels dropped to life-threatening levels, the patients were clear that they would not accept a blood transfusion. Keeping the limitations in mind, the most effective treatment path was planned, and we spent close to two months preparing the patients for surgery," Arun V, Consultant Anesthesiologist said. The hospital arranged customised artificial products like synthetic drug molecules, to conduct a bloodless liver transplant, he added.

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March 21,2020

Mangaluru, Mar 21: The management of Ibrahim Khaleel mosque here on Saturday has decided to temporarily suspend all the prayers inside the mosque premises as a precautionary measure in view of Corona Virus which is spreading like wildfire in the State.

In an official note, the management urged people to remain safe and to pray at home adding that Jumuah, daily prayers and all the other events at the mosques were cancelled temporarily until further notice.

“This is an unavoidable move to save the lives from the infections of deadly Coronavirus” the note added on Saturday.

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July 28,2020

Mangaluru, July 28: A screenshot of a death threat message against IAS officer Sindhu B Rupesh, the deputy commissioner of Dakshina Kannada, is now going viral on social media.

The threat comes in the wake of the Deputy Commissioner’s warning against attack on cattle traders by anti-social elements ahead of Eid al-Adha. 

It is learnt that a discussion was held about DC’s warning in a pro-Hindutva WhatsApp group. The death threat was issued in the same group in Tulu language. 

A police officer said that if the deputy commissioner doesn’t lodge a complaint, the police will file a suo motu case in this regard.

Also Read: Sindhu B Rupesh transferred; Dr Rajendra K V is new DC of Dakshina Kannada

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