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Poll fortunes of 14 candidates to be on test tomorrow

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March 17, 2012

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Udupi, March 17: About 12.53 lakh voters will decide poll fortunes of 14 candidates for the bypoll tomorrow to Udupi-Chikmagalur Lok Sabha seat, where the three major parties Congress, BJP and JDS have gone on a high voltage campaign.

This is the second bypoll being held in Karnataka after D V Sadananda Gowda assumed office as Chief Minister.

The by-poll was necessitated after Gowda vacated the seat following his election to the assembly recently.

Gowda criss crossed the constituency during campaigning to ensure BJP retains the seat despite facing consistent attempts by former Chief Minister B S Yeddyurappa to get himself reinstated ever since he was forced to demit office after the Lokayukta report on illegal mining indicted him.

Yeddyurappa had recently stated he would not ask the BJP high command for Chief Ministership and that it is 'a closed chapter.'

The former Chief Minister did not campaign for this bypoll, irked over the BJP high command turning down his demand for a "suitable position" in the state unit.

BJP had finished a poor third in the November 2011 Bellary bypoll, which saw former minister B Sreeramulu constesting as an independent and winning by a huge margin ahead of Congress.

While BJP has fielded former Karakala MLA Sunil Kumar, former minister K Jayaprakash Hegde is the Congress nominee and Bojegowda is contesting on the JDS symbol.

Election officials said about 7,000 security personnel, including 10 companies of paramilitary forces would keep vigil across two districts of Udupi and Chikmagalur.

Extra security has been provided in 77 Naxal infested areas. Of the total of 1633 polling stations, 231 have been categorised as hyper sensitive and 788 sensitive.

Counting will be taken up on March 21, the day Gowda presents his first budget in the assembly.


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Bengaluru, Mar 5: Flipkart co-founder Sachin Bansal's wife Priya Bansal has filed a dowry harassment case against the entrepreneur at Kormangala police station in Bengaluru, sources said.

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A First Information Report (FIR) has been filed against Sachin and three others at Kormangala police station in Bengaluru.

The police are investigating the matter.

Further details awaited.

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Mangaluru, Feb 2: A video of a woman rescuing a dog from a well in Mangaluru has gone viral on social media. The dog fell inside the well accidentally and the woman rushed to the spot to rescue it. The two minute seven second video has been shared on Twitter by a user, Mauna, and has ever since been viewed over 15,000 times.

The woman climbed down the well as other people attached a rope to her body during the rescue mission. Another rope was then thrown to her and she tied it around the dog after which it was pulled outside. The woman, thereafter, climbed outside the well with much difficulty.

"Bless the lady who saved the Dog," the user captioned the post.

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Bengaluru, Jun 18: Examination for PU II English paper, which was postponed for more than three months due to threat of Coronavirus, was held on Thursday across the state.

The authorities were forced to postpone the examination of the English subject, scheduled in March, abruptly due to the threat of Covid-19 which spread like wildfire and has so far claimed lives of more than 100 in the state.

There are over 1,016 examination centres across the state. All the students were put to thermal scanners and were ensured wearing face masks. Each centre has sanitisers. Those with cold, cough and fever were assigned a separate room.

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