Hundreds pay last respect to Bondala Jagannath Shetty

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July 31, 2012

Mangalore, August 1: Leaders and workers of Congress party, activists and representatives of various organisations and hundreds other on Wednesday paid their last respects to former District Youth Congress chief Bondala Jagannath Shetty in the city.

People in large numbers turned up to pay their tribute to the late leader whose mortal remains were kept in front of District Congress Office, here for public homage. With folded hands, the mourners were seen passing by the flower bedecked coffin amidst the presence of grieving family members.

After paying their last respect to the departed leader District Congress Committee president and Bantwal MLA B Ramanath Rai said that Tuesday night's accident was indeed an accident for all the leaders and workers of Congress party from this region. No one can fulfill this loss, he added.

Former MP Vinay Kumar Sorake opined that Shetty was one of the uncontroversial and much revered leaders of Congress party in Bantwal-Puttur region. “He was a secular leader and true Congress man. Though he had lost Puttur Assembly constituency to Mallika Prasad in 2008 elections, he worked for the people till his last breath,” he said.

Terming Shetty's death as most unfortunate incident Mangalore MLA U T Khader said that Congress party could never forget former's contribution. “This a great loss for all of us. I lost one of my best friends forever”, he said.

JD(S) leader MG Hegde and District Congress Secretary T K Sudhir among others also paid their homage. The mortal remains were later taken in a procession to his hometown in Bantwal for final rites.

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Earlier:

Congress leader Bondala Jagannath Shetty killed in accident

Mangalore, July 31: In a late-night tragedy, one of the prominent Congress leaders from Coastal Karnataka, Bondala Jagannath Shetty died on spot, when his car met with an accident near Panemangalore.

39-year-old Shetty was returning home when his Fortuner SUV collided with a gas tanker at around 11:00pm on Tuesday.

The unexpected tragedy comes a day after he addressed a media conference in Mangalore to condemn the homestay attack.

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Hailing from Bantwal taluk, Shettey had jumped into politics at an early age and held many positions in Congress party. Between 2001 and 2009 he was the president of Dakshina Kannada district Youth Congress.

In 2008 assembly elections Shetty had contested from prestigious Puttur constituency and had lost to Bharatiya Janata Party's Mallika Prasad by a margin of around 1500 votes.

He is survived by his wife, a daughter and a large number of relatives, friends and well-wishers.


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August 6,2020

Bengaluru, Aug 5: Touted as a first of its kind in the nation, a mobile Covid-19 lab was inaugurated on Wednesday by the Karnataka Medical Education Minister Dr K Sudhakar.

The lab, approved by the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) can do 9,000 RT-PCR (reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction) tests per month, an official press release said here. "This is a unique lab having all safety features and capable of producing 100% accurate results within four hours," Dr Sudhakar was quoted as saying in the press release.

The Indian Institute of Science (IISC) had developed the lab and handed it over to the Rajiv Gandhi University of Health Sciences (RGUHS).

The mobile lab can also be used for molecular diagnostic-testing and can be deployed in coronavirus hot spots quickly, the release said adding, apart from Covid-19, the lab can be utilised for testing H1N1, HCV, TB, HPV and HIV among others.

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February 6,2020

New Delhi, Feb 6: BJP MP Tejaswi Surya said on Wednesday that the majority community has to remain vigilant or Mughal rule will return to the country, as he slammed the anti-CAA protest at Shaheen Bagh.

He was participating in the debate on Motion of Thanks on the President's Address in Lok Sabha.

Referring to the ongoing protest at Shaheen Bagh against the Citizenship Amendment Act, he said, "Unless majority community remains vigilant, the days of Mughal Raj may not be far away."

Surya also praised Prime Minister Narendra Modi for resolving several critical issues which had been pending for several decades.

The CAA, he said, was aimed at resolving the issues emanating from Partition and added, "The new India cannot to built without healing the wounds of the past."

He said that the CAA was about giving citizenship to persecuted minorities in Pakistan, Bangaladesh and Afghanistan and not for taking away anyone's citizenship.

Under the leadership of Modi, Surya said, several issues of the past have seen closure. These include abrogation of Article 370, construction of Ram temple, Bodo problems and abolition of Triple Talaq.

K Sudhakaran (Cong) said that a time when the economy was going through its worst phase and unemployment was high, the President in his speech talked about making India a USD 5 trillion economy by 2024.

On the comments of the government functionaries that fundamentals of the economy are strong, he said the same expression was used by the then US President George Bush, days before the collapse of the America's iconic investment banker Lehman Brothers.

Not only that, Sudhakaran said even before the Great Depression, the then US President used to say that fundamentals of their economy were strong.

Anupriya Patel (Apna Dal) demanded that the government set up All India Judicial Services Commission to ensure representation of the backward community in the judiciary.

Khagen Murmu (BJP) regretted that West Bengal government was not implementing the welfare schemes of the Centre in the state.

Badruddin Ajmal (AIUDF) said that people of all communities have fought for freedom of the country and it would be incorrect to declare everyone opposing the government's policies as 'gaddar' (traitor).

He said that the government should talk to people protesting against the CAA at Shaheen Bagh and other places, and explain the provisions to them.

Shrirang Appa Barne (Shiv Sena) demanded that the ruling party fulfil all promises it had made to the people of the country.

He regretted that although the government promised to double the income of farmers by 2022, farmers were still committing suicide.

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April 6,2020
Mangaluru, Apr 6: Agricultural produce vendors have decided to hold an indefinite strike from Monday here in city's Central Market.
 
This move comes in response to district administration’s order asking them to shift to the APMC yard at Baikampady and not heeding to their appeal to allow them to operate from the Market and other areas in the city.
 
The district administration has decided to shift the vendors in order to prevent crowding in the market and maintain social distancing norms.

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