Photojournalists' work comes to focus at Press Day exhibition

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July 2, 2012

Mangalore, July 2: An exhibition of photographs clicked by photojournalists of Mangalore was held as part of the Kannada Press Day celebrations under the auspices of Dakshina Kannada Working Journalists' Association in Mangalore on Monday.

Photographs clicked by photojournalists Ahmed Anwar (Coastaldigest.com), Dayanand Kukkaje (Daijiworld), Satish Ira (Udayavani), Sudhakar Yermal (Vijaya Karnataka), Venu Vinod K S (Vijaya Vani), Ravi Posavanike (The Times of India), Prasanna Bengre (Samyukta Karnataka), Rajesh Shetty (Indian Express), Shashi and Vinay Bhat (Jaya Kirana) have been put up on display.

Jogi, popular columnist and Editor, Udayavani weekly supplement, inaugurated the exhibition.

Coastaldigest.com's photojournalist Ahmed Anwar rates his meal on footpath photograph the best. “My intention is to capture the various shades of human behavior and nothing satisfies a human being more than food”, he said.

Mr. Kukkaje on the other hand chose to go with his beggar at the ATM photograph as his best among the collection which included snaps of birds beautifully lined up on electric wires, an aerial shot of Dubai from atop Burj Khalifa, the world's tallest building among others.

Movement of a train amidst beautiful landscape is his best shot, Mr. Ira of Udayavani says. Other photos displayed by him included a well captured hanging monkey, farmers at work on the field among others.

Mr. Shetty is proud of the shot he clicked of a monkey pulling its young one's tail while having its meal and rates it his best. “I spent an hour there and happened to get this very rare shot”, he reveals.

Mr. Yermal's collection consisted of many well captured wildlife photographs besides newsworthy pictures such as scenes from the Mangalore Air Crash, oil tanker accident on the highway etc.

For Mr. Vinay, a photograph he took on the move capturing emotions of schoolchildren on their way to school in an auto rickshaw provides the most contentment among all his works.

The exhibition will be open for four more days.

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Corona claims another cop's life in Bengaluru

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June 28,2020

Bengaluru, Jun 28: Novel coronavirus has claimed another police officer's life here, official sources said on Sunday.

According to official sources, the deceased police officer attached to station in Whitefield division had collapsed in his home on Saturday.

The 57-year-old Police officer, working as an Assistant Sub-Inspector (ASI) who was diagnosed with COVID-19 infection, also reportedly suffered from breathing related problems, the sources said.

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Congress will return to power in Karnataka: says DK Shivakumar

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March 21,2020

Bengaluru , Mar 21: Karnataka Congress President DK Shivakumar exuded confidence that the party will return to power in the state and praised former chief minister Siddaramaiah's term.

"I am confident that we will come back to power. Everyone in the past has worked their best to build the party. Siddaramaiah being a full-term chief minister gave the best programs to Karnataka, his government's programs were the best of all time," Shivakumar said at a press conference on Friday.

He further assured his full support to anyone who wanted to work for the betterment of the party.

"Though I have become the state president of the party but I am still the worker of Congress and each of us should work for the party as ground workers. I am ready to give any kind of support to those who want to work for the party. We need to take all caste, communities along for the betterment of the party," he said.

Shivakumar was appointed the state Congress President on March 11, while Eshwar Khandre, Satish Jarkiholi, and Saleem Ahmed have been appointed working presidents of Karnataka Pradesh Congress Committee.

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HC notice to railways on plea against surcharge levy

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January 3,2020

Bengaluru, Jan 3: The Karnataka high court on Thursday issued notices to the Railway Board and the South Western Railways on a petition seeking review of superfast surcharge being levied on passengers in Malgudi Express train.

Petitioner and Mysurubased advocate Mohammed Dastagir, in a public interest litigation claimed that as per the circular issued by the Railway Board on December 10, 2006, Malgudi Express — which runs from Mysuru to Yelehanka — is not designated as a superfast train and despite the same, the authorities are illegally collecting additional charges known as supplementary charges ranging from Rs 15 to Rs 75 from passengers.

A division bench headed by Chief Justice Abhay Shreeniwas Oka posted the petition to second week of February.

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