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Security tightened ahead of Datta Jayanti, Eid-Milad; prohibitory orders clamped

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November 29, 2017

Chikkamagaluru, Nov 29: The district police have made elaborate security arrangements in the district in view of Datta Jayanti and Eid-Milad this weekend. Prohibitory orders have been issued by the district administration with regard to carrying weapons and destructive material for three days from December 1.

More than 2,000 police personnel have been assigned to avoid any untoward incident during those days.Vishwa Hindu Parishad, BJP, and Bajrang Dal are holding three-day Datta Jayanti from December 1.

On the first day, Sankeertana Yatre will be held in the city. The district administration, after consultation meetings with leaders of respective communities, has scheduled the procession in view of Id-Milad between 8 a.m. and 12.30 p.m. on December 2. Shobha Yatra of Hindutva organisations will be held later in the day at 3 p.m.

On the third day, devotees will be visiting Bababudangiri Hills for the Datta Jayanti programme.

According to a press release issued by Superintendent of Police K. Annamalai, three additional SPs, 10 DySPs, 30 Police Inspectors, 134 PSIs, 227 ASIs, and other 2,000 police personnel would be deployed. Besides that 20 platoons of DAR and 16 platoons of KSRP will be called in.

The police will open check-posts at 24 places in the district. Sale of liquor will be banned between the midnight of November 30 and midnight of December 3. Movement of vehicles on M.G. Road, Azad Park Road, and K.M. Road will be restricted between 7 a.m. and 7 p.m. on December 2 in view of processions in the city. CCTV cameras have been installed at 21 locations in Bababudangiri, 10 places in Chikkamagaluru city, besides other sensitive places in the district.

Police have booked cases against 1,415 people, who had history of being involved in incidents of violence and causing loss to public property under relevant sections of the Criminal Procedure Code and taken bonds worth ₹ 1 lakh, ₹ 5 lakh, and ₹ 10 lakh. Among them 28 are from Dakshina Kannada district, who had attempted to breach peace during Datta Jayanti last year, the release added.

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shaji
 - 
Wednesday, 29 Nov 2017

Life of common man has become worst ever since anti social bjp is ruling

Hari
 - 
Wednesday, 29 Nov 2017

Modi rule made situation worst. Under UPA this much communal issues was not here. Now for film, food, celebration everything restrictions

Ibrahim
 - 
Wednesday, 29 Nov 2017

As a precaution, should arrest notorious leaders and workers.

Ganesh
 - 
Wednesday, 29 Nov 2017

Because of saffrons important days cant go out freely. Everytime prohibitory orders

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Udupi, Jul 21: Udupi Court complex has been sealed down for two days for sanitisation after a judge tested positive for Covid-19, a source said on Tuesday.

The Covid cases in Udupi district which had reduced recently are once again seeing a spurt. On Monday, as many as 98 have tested positive taking the total cases in the district to 2,321.

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May 22,2020
Bengaluru, May 22: Evacuation planes from Male in Maldives and Doha in Qatar landed in Bengaluru with returnees from Karnataka after they were stranded for two months due to suspension of international flights since March 23 and the extended lockdown, an official said on Friday.
 
"An Air-India flight (#0266) with 152 passengers from Male and its subsidiary Express flight (IX-0822) with 177 returnees and 5 infants from Doha landed here safely at 6.50 pm. and 9.05 pm respectively," an airline official told media persons in Bengaluru.
 
Both the flights are first from their respective countries to Bengaluru, bringing in returnees to the southern state in the second phase of the Vande Bharat mission, being carried out to evacuate Indians stranded the world over.
 
"As per the standard operating procedure and guidelines of the state health department, all the passengers were screened with thermal device and tested to ensure they were asymptomatic before leaving the airport," a nodal officer said.
 
The returnees were given a spare mask to wear all the time and a sanitiser to wash their hands.
 
"The luggage of all passengers was screened and disinfected before handing over to them after they completed formalities such as filling the self-declaration form and downloading of the Quarantine App for contact tracing later,” said the official.
 
The passengers were ferried from the airport in state-run buses in batches for 14-day institutional quarantine in hotels and resorts across the city.
 
The flights were the 6th and 7th flights to Karnataka, of the national carrier and its Express arm, which are operating the service to repatriate thousands of Indians, including distressed workers, migrants, students, senior citizens and tourists, stranded overseas.
 
Five flights have flown about 650 returnees till date from May 18-21 under the mission's second phase to Bengaluru and Mangaluru on the west coast. The passengers have been brought from Dubai in the UAE, Kuala Lumpur in Malaysia, Muscat in Oman, Dammam in Saudi Arabia and San Francisco in the US.
 
The remaining flights to Karnataka will land in Bengaluru and Mangaluru over the next 12 days till June 3 from 9-10 more destinations the world over.
 
In the first phase of the mission from May 7-17, the airline and its arm flew 6 flights to the state from May 11-15, bringing in 800 passengers, including 623 to Bengaluru and 177 to Mangaluru from London, Singapore, San Francisco and Dubai.

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March 23,2020

Mangaluru, Mar 23: In its efforts to contain the outbreak of COVID-19, the district administration has ordered that all shops and establishments selling essential commodities to remain open only between 0600 hrs and 1200 hrs from Tuesday till March 31.

Dakshina Kannada Deputy Commissioner Sindhu B Rupesh, in a press release here, announced that autorickshaws and taxis should not ferry passengers and should be utilised only during emergencies and for transportation of essential commodities among others.

Ms Sindhu has also ordered shutting down industries. Only those industries involved in the production of essential commodities, medicines, medical instruments, medicine, fuel, farm produce among others had been exempted, Please log in to get detailed story.

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