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Palemar directs MESCOM to announce load shedding schedule in DK

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October 22, 2011

Mangalore, October 22: The issues of load shedding, sand mining and unrepaired roads dominated the progress review meeting of Karnataka Development Programme held at Dakshina Kannada Zilla Panchayat here on Saturday.

Expressing unhappy over the unscheduled load shedding, District in-charge Minister Krishna J Palemar directed the officials of Mangalore Electricity Supply Company to announce its load shedding schedule through media.

He took this step after Mangalore MLA U T Khader complained that people were facing inconvenience due to several hours of unscheduled load shedding in many parts of the district. “The situation is worst in rural areas”, he added.

Countering a MESCOM official's claim that people in the district are facing only one hour of power shut down a day, Mr Khader said that there was no pattern for power cut. In some rural areas the duration of unscheduled load shedding is more than five to six hours a day, he said.

Following the complaints of pending asphalting and concretisation works, the District in-charge minister set a three month dead line before the officials to repair all roads in the district. “All the damaged roads in the district should be repaired by January”, he directed.

The minister also directed the Mines and Geology officials to allow transport of sand in the district by issuing licences to the local sand miners. He also directed them to start issuing licences to extract laterite soil bricks, which was banned by former Deputy Commissioner V Ponnuraj.

Zilla Panchayat president K T Shailaja Bhat presided over the meeting. CEO K N Vijayaprakash was present.

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April 19,2020

Bengaluru, Apr 19: With six new cases of COVID-19 in the last 24 hours, Karnataka's total count of coronavirus patients has surged to 390, said the State's Health Department on Sunday.

"Six new cases have been confirmed for COVID-19 in the State from 5 pm yesterday till 5 pm today. Cumulatively, 390 COVID-19 positive cases have been confirmed in the state," said the Health Department in a statement.

The total coronavirus cases in the State include 16 deaths and 111 discharges.

Deputy Chief Minister CN Ashwath Narayan said that "only essential and critical number of" employees of the Information Technology (IT) companies will be allowed to work from offices from April 20 onwards in Bengaluru, while others will have to continue working from home.

According to the latest update by the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, the total number of positive cases in India has mounted to 16,116 and 519 deaths have been reported till now.

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June 8,2020

Bengaluru, Jun 8: Normal life is slowly returning to normal across Karnataka with the state government further easing the restrictions by throwing open places of worship, hotels, malls for the public.

Despite these places being opened after a gap of more than two months, the places wore a deserted look as the people are and cautious and not ready to take of risk of venturing out amid the ongoing Corona threat.

"Business is not as heavy as expected though it was allowed after a gap of almost three months. You can see for yourself the crowd, it is not what it should have been in a commercial area like this prior to the imposition of lockdown. However, hope it will improve", a Cloth merchant B Ramesh told UNI when asked for his reaction.

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March 27,2020

Bengaluru, Mar 27: Karnataka has recorded the third death due to the Covid-19 virus. It is a man from Tumakuru with a travel history to Delhi. He had been put in isolation at the District Hospital in Tumakuru on March 24.

His travel history indicates that he travelled to New Delhi by the Sampark Kranti Express (Coach S6) on March 5 along with 13 members. They reached Hazrat Nizamuddin station in New Delhi on March 7 and went to the Jamia Masjid and rented an room at a lodge nearby.

He began the return journey to Karnataka by the Kongu Express on March 11 in Coach no. S9. On March 18, he developed cough and fever and visited a private hospital the next day. He was referred to the District Hospital in Tumakuru but on March 24, he left the hospital against medical advice and went to a private medical facility. He was referred back to the District Hospital, where he was put isolation.

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