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PM Modi flags off Mysuru-Bengaluru electrified double line track

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February 19, 2018

Mysuru, Feb 19: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday dedicated the double line electrified railway track between Mysuru and Bengaluru to the nation. 

He also flagged off the inaugural run of the new Palace Queen Humsafar Express train linking Mysuru with Udaipur which was hauled by a WAP 7 class electric locomotive.

With this, the entire 139 km stretch between the Bengaluru and Mysuru has been electrified and has paved way for the introduction of electric train service not only between Mysuru and Bengaluru but provides a through electric train service upto Chennai (as the Bengaluru-Chennai stretch is already electrified).

Giving a major impetus to the railway infrastructure in the region, the electrification was taken up concurrently with the broad gauge doubling project which was completed a few years ago in a phase-wise manner.

The doubling project was approved in 2007-08 between Ramanagaram and Mysuru and the electrification was also approved for the entire stretch. It was originally estimated to cost nearly ₹ 878 crore but the revised estimated has pegged the cost of the entire project (doubling and electrification) at ₹ 990 crore of which the cost of electrification is around ₹ 210 crore.

The project was taken up on a cost-sharing basis with the State Government having chipped in nearly ₹ 581 crore. Chief Minister Siddaramaiah, Minister for Railways Piyush Goyal, Union Ministers Sadananda Gowda and Ananth Kumar, State Minister for Heavy and Medium Industries R.V. Deshpande, PWD Minister H.C. Mahadevappa and others were present.

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February 10,2020

Mangaluru, Feb 10: Life of a 40–year-old man, who suffered a massive cardiac arrest, was saved by an ambulance driver who covered 80-km distance between Dharmasthala and Mangaluru in just 40 minutes.

The patient, a Chikkaballapur native sustained a heart attack near Sakleshpur on Saturday while he was on his way to Dharmasthala. He was provided preliminary treatment at a private hospital in Ujire, where doctors advised his relatives to shift him to a hospital in Mangaluru immediately.

The patient’s condition was critical and the odds were completely against him. Moreover owing to the ongoing double lane project work, the road too had been dugout. Despite all this, ambulance driver Hameed drove at a fast pace and managed to take the patient to the hospital within 40 minutes.

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April 16,2020

Mangaluru, Apr 16: An old refrigerator has been turned into a "disinfection chamber" by researchers who are striving to come up with solutions to tackle the spread of coronavirus.

Dr Arun M Isloor, head of Chemistry Department, National Institute of Technology Karnataka (NITK), Surathkal, along with research scholar Syed Ibrahim has come up with the device which can disinfect items kept inside it.

"We have named this as ZERO-COV," Dr Isloor said.

He says the device ensures 99.9 per cent destruction of microorganisms present on the surface of items.

"We can keep items like vegetables, currency notes, books or envelopes inside the chamber. Switching on the chamber for 15 minutes ensures 99.9 per cent destruction of microorganisms present in the surface of the items," Dr Isloor added.

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April 11,2020

Bengaluru, Apr 11: Seven more people have tested positive for coronavirus taking the tally to 214 in the state.

"Coronavirus cases rise to 214 in Karnataka, with seven more people testing positive between 5 PM Friday and 12 PM Saturday," said the Karnataka health department.

According to the health department, all these seven people have a history of contact with COVID-19 patients. Five of them are workers of a pharmaceutical company in Mysuru.

"Out of the total cases in the state, six people have died while 37 others were cured or discharged," added the state health department.

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