Mangalore gears up for grand finale of Dasara festival

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October 6, 2011

Mangalore, October, 6: The coastal city is well prepared to host the grand Shobha Yathra, the last leg of the nine-day Mangalore Dasara festivities, on Thursday evening.

Thousands of devotees, enthusiasts and tourists from across the country and abroad are expected to take part in the procession, which will commence at Shri Kshetra Gokarnanatheshwara, later in the evening.

Lavishly decorated temple surroundings and streets are adding to the festive mood.

The idols of goddess Sharada, Nava-Durga and lord Ganesh will be taken on 7 km Shobha Yatra in decked up chariots in the presence of montages, traditional dances and musical instruments.

The Shobha Yathra will pass through Kudroli Ullal Nursing Home-Durgamahal-Mannagudde-Ladyhill-Lalbhag-PVS, Navabharath Circle-K S Rao Road-Hampankatte-K B Circle-Mohini Vilas-Carstreet-Balaji Newchitra-Alake and reach back to Kudroli temple and all the idols will be immersed in the temple pond.

For the first time, the entire 7 km procession route has been decked up with colourful lights.

The police department is taking all precautionary measures for the smooth conduct of procession. Security has been beefed up across the city, with the deployment of additional police, especially in sensitive areas.

In the wake of Shobha Yathra, traffic in the city limits will be diverted after 4 pm. The movement of heavy vehicles from Ladyhill to Kudroli and New Chithra Talkies to Kudroli has been banned. The city buses should strand on the road behind the temple.

All the vehicles which move out of the city via Lalbagh should take deviation to left towards Hampankatta and proceed towards Ambedkar Circle-Bunts Hostel and move via Mallikatta-Nanthur. Except KSRTC, no other vehicles should strand on Circuit House or Kuntikana route. Provision buses should strand via Horticulture office-Ambedkar Circle route.

The parking facilities of vehicles has been done either side of the main road where the procession passes through is also banned. Vehicles must be parked at Urwa Market, Gandhinagara by lanes in 45 degree angle.

Similarly, traffic from in the way of Mangaladevi Rathotsava will be changed from 7pm onwards.

Once the Shobha Yathra begins then the movement of all the vehicles from Cassia, Monkey stand, and Mulihithlu side will be banned. All the vehicles plying via Cassia should move towards Jeppu Market- Mulihithlu.

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Miraculous escape for passengers after bus veers off road, falls on house below 25ft

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June 10,2020

Puttur, June 10: Passengers of a KSRTC bus had a miraculous escape while driver and conductor suffered minor injuries after it fell on a house below 25ft.

Police said that except for some minor injuries to the driver and conductor none of the 21 passengers were hurt.

The bus was bound for Ishwaramangala from Puttur when the mishap took place as the driver lost control over the steering.

The roof and walls of the house on which the bus fell was partially damaged.

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Mangaluru: Old fridge turned Into disinfection chamber by researchers

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April 16,2020

Mangaluru, Apr 16: An old refrigerator has been turned into a "disinfection chamber" by researchers who are striving to come up with solutions to tackle the spread of coronavirus.

Dr Arun M Isloor, head of Chemistry Department, National Institute of Technology Karnataka (NITK), Surathkal, along with research scholar Syed Ibrahim has come up with the device which can disinfect items kept inside it.

"We have named this as ZERO-COV," Dr Isloor said.

He says the device ensures 99.9 per cent destruction of microorganisms present on the surface of items.

"We can keep items like vegetables, currency notes, books or envelopes inside the chamber. Switching on the chamber for 15 minutes ensures 99.9 per cent destruction of microorganisms present in the surface of the items," Dr Isloor added.

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Mangaluru | Miscreants pour kerosene on 200kg beef, thrash driver after waylaying vehicle

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June 21,2020

Mangaluru, June 21: A gang of miscreants intercepted a goods auto-rickshaw which was legally transporting beef from an abattoir to market and attacked its driver in heart of the city this morning.

The attack comes exactly a week after a gang of Bajrang Dal miscreants thrashed a cattle trader at Urwa while legally transporting four buffalos to Kudroli abattoir on June 13.

Today, a person identified as Abdul Rasheed was transporting around 200 kilograms of beef from Kudroli abattoir to Kankanady market.

Meanwhile, miscreants began to chase beef laden vehicle and managed to waylay it near Highland Hospital. They thrashed Abdul Rasheed and poured kerosene on the beef besides damaging the vehicle.

The miscreants fled in their car and motorbikes after passersby began to gather.

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one day snake must come out from rat hole...that day we will wait

Dear DC Dr. Harsha, we want to know if you will take strict action on these anti nationals / rowdis / day robbers / terrorists who ransacked auto + beaten the auto driwer and stolen Rs. 10,000 from him though he was legally transporting the meat. They same terrorists are involved in transporting live animals to beef export houses in Gujrat owned by Brahmins / Jains. Will you be loyal to your duty and promise. We will see how you will handle the issue failing which you will lose our respect and we will consider you as a dramabaz and phenku. You should follow the law and treat everyone equally. There should not be any pity on goondas/ terrorists belonging to sangh parivar. The terrorists who thrashed the auto driver and damaged the auto and burnt the meat by pouring kerosene are not human beings and should be treated as anti nationals + terrorists. We hope you will discharge your duty as per the oath taken by you while accepting your post.