KSRTC city services hit Mangalore streets

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August 23, 2012

Mangalore, August 23: One of the long pending dreams of citizens of Mangalore was finally met on Thursday with Karnataka State Road Corporation formally launching seven city services.

While three schedules will be from KSRTC central bus station at Bejai to Mudipu, two are from Mangalore central railway station to Mangalore airport, Kenjar, and two others from KSRTC central bus station to Surathkal railway station. The first schedule entails 18 round trips to Mudipu, second schedule 6 round trips to airport and third schedule 7 round trips to Surathkal railway station. There will be 2 round trips to Jokatte in this schedule as well.

The pricing is competitive in that the 23-km trip to Mudipu will cost Rs 16. This is the same fare for a 20-km ride to Mangalore Airport or a 22-km ride to Surathkal railway station. The low floor buses with hydraulic doors that the drivers can control are capable of seating 41 passengers with provision for 20 passengers to commute standing. Incidentally, the price is a trial offer for the first week of operations and will be made more competitive.

With inkling that RTA would issue it limited permits to start city services, divisional authorities had sourced these seven low floor buses manufactured at the regional workshop at Kengeri. Costing Rs 26 lakh, these buses come with a destination indicator LED board. "We have kept our fares almost Rs 1-2 less than the private operators per stage and the minimum fare is Rs 4 as against Rs 5 charged by competitors," M Mahesh, KSRTC DC said.

Aimed at taking competition from local private bus operators head on, KSRTC has taken care to employ local drivers and conductors, who know the local culture and ethos, said M Sairam, KSRTC divisional controller. Hopeful that the deputy commissioner, who is the chairman of RTA would permit KSRTC to start scheduled from SBI terminus to destinations, Sairam said it is for the DC to take a call of relaxing a DM notification to facilitate this.

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April 12,2020

Tumakuru, Apr 12: Fearing the spread of COVID-19 in Muddenahalli village, the villagers shifted to living in tents in nearby fields with most of their belongings.

Kariyappa, one of the villagers said, "We were scared of the COVID-19 spread, so we came here."

Around 60 families of the village lived in tents for three days, before they returned to their houses on the advice of the Tehsildar.

So far, 214 COVID-19 cases, including six deaths, have been reported in the state of Karnataka.

With 34 deaths and 909 new positive COVID-19 cases in the last 24 hours, the total number of coronavirus cases in India on Sunday reached 8356, including 716 cured and discharged, according to the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare.

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May 11,2020

Bengaluru, May 11: As many as 343 Indians returned to Bengaluru from London by a special Air India flight on the fifth day of 'Vande Bharat Mission' on Monday. They arrived at the Kempegowda international airport at 4.40 am.

All passengers were found to be asymptomatic on arrival except one 27-year-old woman who had had an incomplete abortion and had vomiting on arrival. She has been shifted to KC General Hospital in Malleshwaram.

Dr Prabhu Dev Gowda, an officer on duty for COVID-19 screening at Kempegowda International Airport, said, "A 27-year-old woman has had an incomplete abortion of her three-month-old foetus before taking the flight from London. She was vomiting on arrival. She was shifted to Aster CMI Hospital for emergency care.”

“Thereafter, she and her husband were shifted to KC General Hospital in Malleshwaram. They will be in isolation there. Since there is nobody to look after her, we have to let the husband accompany her to the hospital where they will be in quarantine."

The patient was famished and was provided a few idlis on arrival, he added.

After she recovers at the hospital, the couple will be shifted to a hotel. As per protocol, their throat swabs were taken for COVID-19 testing too. All passengers whether symptomatic or not are being tested for COVID-19.

Dr Manjula Devi, District Health Officer, Bengaluru Rural district said that all passengers were found to be asymptomatic on arrival except this woman who is being treated as a non-COVID-19 emergency.

Ajith Rai, Devanahalli Tehsildar told DH, "All passengers have chosen to go to hotels over government hostels. We're yet to tabulate how many have chosen budget hotels, three-star and five-star hotels. Twenty of them are still here. The process is on."

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February 20,2020

Kalaburagi, Feb 20: All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM) leader Waris Pathan on Wednesday said that 15 crore Muslims can dominate 100 crore Hindus.

"The time has now come for us to unite and achieve freedom. Remember we are 15 crore but can dominate over 100 crores," said Pathan while addressing an anti-CAA rally here.

"They tell us that we have kept our women in the front - only the lionesses have come out and you are already sweating. You can understand what would happen if all of us come together," he said.

The CAA grants citizenship to Hindu, Sikh, Jain, Parsi, Buddhist, and Christian refugees from Pakistan, Afghanistan, and Bangladesh, who came to India on or before December 31, 2014.

Protests have erupted across the country against the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA), the National Register of Citizens (NRC) and the National Population Register (NPR).

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