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Polling begins amid tight security in Dakshina Kannada; candidates among early voters

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April 18, 2019

Mangaluru, Apr 18: Voters thronged to their jurisdictional poll booths in Dakshina Kannada on Thursday as the polling began for the second phase of Lok Sabha polls across India.

As many as 13 candidates, including sitting MP Nalin Kumar Kateel from BJP, Mithun M Rai from the Congress, and Ilyas Mohammed Thumbey from SDPI, are in fray for election to Dakshina Kannada Parliamentary constituency. Candidates including Mithun Rai were seen standing in the queue in the polling booths in the morning.

To conduct the elections in a free and fair manner the district administration has deployed 8,920 officials and staff.

The administration has arranged 668 buses for the polling personnel. In all, 2,230 presiding officers, 2,230 assistant presiding officers and 590 route officers are deployed for the purpose.

A comprehensive information centre has been established at the district control room to get details from all the 1,861 polling stations in the district through GPS while livestreaming has been arranged from 110 stations.

Traditional booths have been established at Sri Manjunatheshwara Higher Primary School, Dharmasthala, Central Model Residential School, Madhya, Surathkal, Government HPS, Kanyana in Bantwal, HPS, Balnad in Puttur and Sri Ramakrishna Aided HPS, Badadka in Sullia.

As many as 20 Sakhi booths are also established at Model HPS, Belthangady; Panchayat Office, Moodbidri; Fisheries HPS, Chitrapura-Kulai; Vidyadayini English Medium School, Surathkal; HPS, Panambur; Women’s Polytechnic, Bondel; KREC HPS, Srinivasanagara, Surathkal; Ladyhill HPS, Mangaluru; University College, Hampanakatte; St. Joseph HPS, Kankanady; St. Agnes HPS, Bendore; Government Women’s College, Car Street; Bhagavathi HPS, Uchchila-Someshwara; Vishwamangala HPS; Holy Anges HPS, Permannur; Kotekar Town Panchayat Office; Stella Mary’s HPS, Someshwara; HPS Loretto Amtadi, Bantwal; ST Residential School, Kuddupadavu Kepu and Model HPS, Kadaba, Sullia. The decision of the presiding officers at polling station is final.

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May 4,2020

Mangaluru, May 4: In line with the directive of the Deputy Commissioner against opening textile shops even after the relaxation of lockdown, it has been decided to continue the closure of all textile shops in Hampankatta area of Mangaluru until the end of the blessed Ramadan, President of KTA Youth Forum said on Monday.

Pointing out that several rumours were doing the rounds in social media on the opening of textile shops in the wake of Eid, the owners of textile shops met on Monday morning and unanimously decided against opening the shops. The association said the local MLA has also been consulted on the issue.

KTA Youth Forum is an organisation of owners of shops at Kunil Centre in Tokyo Market and Akbar Complex here, mostly comprising of Muslims.

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April 15,2020

Bengaluru, Apr 15: Police on Wednesday conducted surprise raids at nearly 120 shops in Bengaluru following complaints of black marketing and sale of foodgrains above the MRP rate.

Sandip Patil, Joint Commissioner of Police, Crime, Bengaluru in a tweet said that action has been initiated against these shopkeepers.

Though the government has maintained the supply chain of essential items, few shopkeepers have used the lockdown opportunity to charge higher prices for essential items.

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Sharief
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Thursday, 16 Apr 2020

Need tough punishment.

Instead of helping with lesser price, troubling the people. These are cruels.

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May 5,2020

Bengaluru, May 5: A 62-year-old woman from Vijayapura succumbed to coronavirus infection on Tuesday, taking the COVID-19 death toll in Karnataka to 28, a health official said.

The state has registered eight more COVID-19 cases in the past 19 hours, increasing the count of such cases to 659, the official added.

"Positive case 640, 62-year-old female resident of Vijayapura died on Tuesday due to cardiac arrest," the health official said.

Admitted to a designated hospital''s ICU on Sunday, the woman was also suffering from Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD), Bronchial Asthma (BA) and complained of breathlessness.

Among the eight fresh cases that emerged in the state, four were contacts of earlier cases, two with Influenza Like Illness (ILI) and one with travel history to Uttarakhand.

The health department is also tracing the contact history of a 30-year-old woman from Bengaluru Urban.

Incidentally, no new cases emerged from Davangere as 22 cases rocked the district on Monday.

Among the new cases, Bengaluru Urban contributed 3, followed by Bagalkote, 2, Ballari, Dakshina Kannada and Bhatkal in Uttara Kannada, 1 each.

Of the new cases, six are men and two women.

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