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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May 19,2020

Udupi, May 19: Within minutes after health and family welfare department announced four fresh covid-19 cases in Udupi district, a girl who had come from central part of Karnataka tested positive for the coronavirus thereby taking the count of cases detected after last evening to five. 

With this the total number of confirmed covid-19 cases in the district rose to 16. Three among them have recovered. One patient died last week. There are 12 active cases. 

According to sources, the 17-year-old girl from Chitradurga had visited KMC hospital in Manipal for cancer treatment on May 16. 

Her throat swabs were sent for corona testing on the following day. Today she obtained a positive report. Hence, she was shifted to Dr TMA Pai Covid hospital.

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June 28,2020

Bengaluru, Jun 28: Karnataka Minister for Medical Education Dr K Sudhakar faced criticism by netizens after he shared a TikTok video sent by his daughter and wife, who are currently undergoing treatment in a COVID-19 facility.

TikTok is a Chinese video-sharing social networking service owned by ByteDance, a Beijing-based internet technology company founded in 2012 by Zhang Yiming.

Dr Sudhakar’s father, his wife and daughter who tested positive for Covid-19 has been admitted to a designated facility and in order to make his birthday memorable, his daughter sent him greetings through TikTok video.

When the minister shared the TikTok video, people pointed out that the minister should know better and that he should urge his family to boycott the Chinese video-sharing platform and lead by example.

Many were miffed that a BJP leader put up a TikTok video at a time when tensions are running high between India and China along the Line of Actual Control (LAC) in eastern Ladakh.

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January 28,2020

Mysuru, Jan 28: The Second Additional District and Sessions Court on Monday granted anticipatory bail to B Nalini, who displayed the ‘Free Kashmir’ placard during a protest, and also to Maridevaiah, the organiser of the protest.

Nalini and Maridevaiah had applied for bail as Jayalakshmipuram police had booked them under sedition charges. Nalini had displayed the placard during a protest at Manasagangotri, the University of Mysore campus, recently. The court, which took up the case on January 24, had kept the order pending.

The court directed the accused to submit their passport to the court and a bond for a sum of Rs 50,000. The court also directed them to be present before the police, whenever needed.

Meanwhile, the Mysuru Bar Association has decided to take measures against the association members who are in favour of Nalini. Seventy-five members, seeking to represent Nalini, have withdrawn their support, the association secretary B Shivanna said. The association has suspended advocates Manjula Manasa and P P Baburaj.

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