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HDK gave colleges to state, not Shankarmurthy: Puttanna

May 21, 2012

Mangalore, May 21: BJP's MLC candidate D H Shankaramurthy has been publicizing everywhere as part of his election campaign that it was in his tenure as the education minister that Karnataka got 184 colleges but the truth is that it was the then Chief Minister H D Kumaraswamy's initiative, said Puttanna, JDS leader.

Addressing media persons at a press meet in Mangalore on Monday, Mr. Puttanna said that Mr. Shankarmurthy had not done anything significant as an elected representative from the Teachers Constituency. “His contribution is zero. He is campaigning for the polls saying that he has given 184 colleges to the state. The truth is that without the approval of the Chief Minister, it would not have been possible. JDS and H D Kumaraswamy, who was the Chief Minister then, deserve the credit for that development”, Mr. Puttanna said.

Stating that Mr. Kumaraswamy had also granted permissions to start a number of medical, engineering, nursing, and physiotherapy colleges besides schools and other educational institutions, Mr. Puttanna said that 28,000 teachers and lecturers had been appointed during the 20 month tenure of the former Chief Minister.

Criticising the BJP government's move to introduce 'Nali Kali' stating that by having no English subject until Std III, Mr. Puttanna said that the government had been unjust to poor children as they find it difficult to cope up with the tougher syllabi of Std IV and higher classes.

He also appealed to the government to postpone the recruitment of PU lecturers by 20 days or more so that they get enough time to adjust to the new syllabus and prepare accordingly.

JDS leaders M G Hegde, D M Aslam, and others were present in the press meet.

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May 12,2020

New Delhi, May 12: Air India is planning to operate 149 repatriation flights to 31 countries between May 16 and May 22 during the second phase of the Vande Bharat mission to bring back home Indians stranded abroad amid the coronavirus-triggered lockdown, officials said. During the first phase of the Vande Bharat mission, Air India and its subsidiary Air India Express are scheduled to operate total 64 flights between May 7 and May 14 to bring approximately 15,000 Indians from 12 countries on a payment basis.

"In the second phase, Air India and Air India Express will operate 149 flights to countries such as the USA, the UAE, Canada, Saudi Arabia, the UK, Malaysia, Oman, Kazakhstan, Australia, Ukraine, Qatar and Indonesia," the airline officials stated.

Other countries to where the national carrier would operate flights between May 16 and May 22 are Russia, Philippines, France, Singapore, Ireland, Kyrgyzstan, Kuwait,

Japan, Georgia, Germany and Tajikistan, officials noted.
The flights during the second phase will also be operated to Bahrain, Armenia, Thailand, Italy, Nepal, Belarus, Nigeria and Bangladesh, they mentioned.

India has been under lockdown since March 25 to curb the spread of the novel coronavirus, which has infected more than 70,000 people and killed around 2,290 people in the country till now. All scheduled commercial passenger flights have been suspended for the lockdown period.

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May 11,2020

Bengaluru, May 11: Ten new positive cases of COVID-19 have been confirmed in Karnataka, taking the total number of infections in the state to 858, the Health department said on Monday.

"Ten new positive cases have been reported from last evening to this noon... Till date 858 COVID-19 positive cases have been confirmed. This includes 31 deaths and 422 discharges," the department said in its mid-day situation update. 

The ten new cases include- three from Davangere, two each from Bidar and Bagalkote, one each from Kalaburagi, Shiggavi in Haveri and Vijayapura. Seven cases are men, three are women.

While most cases are contacts of patients already tested positive, one each are with travel history to Mumbai and Ahmedabad.

One person's contact tracing is underway. 

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April 5,2020

Chikmagalur, April 5: BJP Lok Sabha MP from Udupi Chikmagalur Shobha Karandlaje on Saturday claimed that "efforts to spread coronavirus throughout the country" began at Tablighi Jamaat event in Delhi and termed it as "corona jihad".

"Efforts began at Tablighi Jamaat event in Delhi to spread coronavirus throughout the country.

Most of the attendees of that event are untraceable. There seems to be 'corona Jihadi plan' behind that meeting," she said while speaking to reporters here.

Meanwhile, according to officials, out of the seven new cases from Mysuru, two cases are connected to the Jubilant Generics cluster while the rest five cases have a travel history to Delhi.

Total positive cases of COVID-19 in India stand at 3072.

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