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Voting concludes; Turnout above 50%

June 10, 2012

Mangalore, June 10: Polling for Legislative Council elections of South West Teachers' and Graduates' constituency has concluded.


As per the statistics of the Information Department, the South West Teachers' constituency witnessed a voter turnout of 57.475 while the Graduates' constituency recorded a turnout of 53.31%.


Out of the total 11, 859 voters in the Graduates' constituency, a total of 6,322 voters cast their vote while in the Teachers' constituency, 2,817 voters cast their vote out of a total 4,902 voters.


Chief Minister D V Sadananda Gowda exercised his voting right at the Puttur polling centre.

Speaking to media persons, Mr. Gowda said that he had traveled across the state and found that the polling atmosphere was encouraging. The poll results will be in favour of BJP, he said, stating that the BJP led state government had fulfilled various demands of the teachers including elimination of discrimination in pay. The government had given special attention to education, Mr. Gowda said, stating that about Rs. 15,000 crore had been set aside for education in the state budget.


Voting took place at a total of 34 centres across the district.

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April 5,2020

Thieves broke into an MSIL liquor outlet at Kuthar Nityanandanagara on the outskirts of Mangaluru and decamped with liquor worth Rs 1 lakh. The incident came to light on Friday morning. 

The outlet belongs to Purushotham Pilar. 

Before committing the crime, the thieves had hung a cloth in front of the shop shutter of the outlet to ensure that no one could notice the crime. They also stole DVR of the CCTV the was installed. 

On noticing that outlet was open, many people had even come to purchase liquor. The police took all those who had visited the outlet to purchase to the task and chased them away.

The thieves also stole 10 packets of cigarettes from a paan shop situated adjacent to the MSIL outlet.

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January 2,2020

Kalaburgi, Jan 2: At least 10 students sustained injuries when a private bus carrying students of a school on an educational tour rammed into a tree today morning.

The mishap occurred when the students of Ayyappa School located in Chennaveera Nagar were going around the city in a bus during their tour.

The bus crashed into a tree near Venkatagiri Hotel on New Jewargi Road in the city.

A case has been registered at a traffic police station.

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The service was supposed to end on Tuesday, but it has now been extended till Thursday.
 
The Chief Minister has appealed to workers and other people that they can return to their hometowns without having to gather in large numbers at bus stops.
 
He said, "951 KSRTC buses on Sunday were provided in the state for the travel of migrants. About 1,500 passengers have already gone in 50 busses."
 
On Saturday, an estimated 16,500 passengers in 550 buses left for their homes.
 
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He said in a press release that everyone will be provided with free meals and water before the journey.

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