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Seven drown as SUV plunges into lake at midnight in Hassan

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January 10, 2016

Channarayapatna, Jan 10: Seven employees of Toyota Kirloskar in Bidadi, who were on a trip to religious places, died when their SUV plunged into a lake near here on Saturday.

lakeThree others in the vehicle managed to escape with injuries.

According to the police, the deceased have been identified as Karthik (26) of Kuppur village in Turuvekere taluk in Tiptur, Dilip (23) of Thimmegowdana Doddi in Bidadi, Jayanth (24) of Arechakenahalli in Maddur taluk in Mandya, Satish (25) of Nallur village in Chamarajanagar district, Shivaswamy (25) of Halagur village in Mandya district, Janardhan (24) of Machohalli in Magadi taluk and N?R?Raju (24) of Nagaranahalli in Holenarasipura taluk in Hassan district. Prasanna Kumar, Raghu and Prashanth, who managed to escape, are undergoing treatment at the Hassan district hospital.

A group of friends had recently secured jobs after completing a training programme at Kirloskar.

They hence, decided to go on a pilgrimageto Hornadu Annapoorneshwari temple in Chikkamagaluru district.

Ten of them were travelling in the SUV, a Mahindra Scorpio, while the remaining four drove in a Maruthi Swift. They started their journey from Mandya on Friday at 10.30 pm.

Prasanna was driving the SUV and around 1.30 am they were near the Janivara lake. He lost control over the vehicle at a turn and it plunged into the lake beside the road. Prasanna managed to break open the window and saved two others. Even though the other car, Swift, was just a little distance behind, they did not spot the SUV in the water.

Swamy, a Janivara villager, who was passing by, noticed the vehicle in the pond.

The Fire and Emergency Services personnel and the police took the bodies out of the pond.

“I ?don’t work with them (deceased), but we were all friends for the last three years. They would call me ‘Anna’ as I?am older than them. All of them had got jobs at Kirloskar recently. On January 6, one of the deceased and me share our birthdays. So, we planned to celebrate by visiting temples.

As it was too cold and there was thick mist, all the windows were closed and I could not see the right turn. Even though I?applied the break, the vehicle did not stop and plunged into the pond. I?broke open the window and could rescue only two of my friends,” Prasanna explained. Prasanna has sustained injuries on his hands and is undergoing treatment.

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July 28,2020

Bengaluru, Jul 28: After the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) reduced the syllabi for Classes 9 to 12 due to COVID-19 pandemic, the Karnataka government has followed the suit. The Department of Public Instruction has omitted the chapters on legendary south Indian rulers Hyder Ali and Tipu Sultan from the textbooks of Class 7 in their attempt to reduce syllabus for state board schools by 30 per cent. 

The department, however, has decided to retain similar chapters on Tipu Sultan in 6th and 10th Classes, though the syllabus in text books for all classes from 1 to 10th has been trimmed. 

The trimmed textbooks uploaded on the website of the Department of State Education Research and Training (DSERT) by Karnataka state Textbook Society revealed removal of chapters on Tipu Sultan for the seventh grade.

Justifying the decision, officials said, "students study similar chapters in Class 6 and more in the 10th grade." Yet another senior official from the Text Book Society said, "Trimming does not mean we have removed half of the syllabus from textbooks. It is only keeping in mind the repetition we have condensed the chapters. In case students study about a particular dynasty in higher grades, then the same had been removed from lower grades."

A few months ago, there was an uproar over dropping of content on Tipu Sultan and MLAs from the ruling BJP also demanded the same and petitioned to the Chief Minister. Even an expert committee led by Prof Baraguru Ramachandrappa suggested to not drop any content on the historic figure. However, the department still decided to drop lessons from one of the classes while keeping the syllabus short for the next 120 active academic days.

Earlier this month, a controversy had erupted over the CBSE's decision to omit topics like federalism, secularism, citizenship, etc while reducing the syllabus for Classes 9 to 12. The education board had issued a detailed clarification later, stating that topics claimed to be dropped "are either being covered by the rationalised syllabus or in the Alternative Academic Calendar of NCERT".

"The rationalisation of syllabus up to 30 per cent has been undertaken by the Board for nearly 190 subjects of class 9 to 12 for the academic session 2020-21 as a one-time measure only. The objective is to reduce the exam stress of students due to the prevailing health emergency situation and prevent learning gaps," it said.

Last week, the Congress in Uttar Pradesh expressed its concern over 'deliberate and systematic' deletions of chapters related to the freedom struggle and the party's role in it from the Class 10-12 syllabi of the Secondary Education Board.

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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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June 18,2020

Mangaluru Jun 18: Dakshina Kannada on Thursday, June 18, reported 23 fresh covid-19 cases, taking the total number of the cases detected in the district to 401.  

Among the 23 corona-positive patients, there are 21 males and two females. 

21 are Saudi returnees, while the other two have contracted infection from P-6618.

No cases were reported in Udupi district on Thursday.

The total number of cases in Udupi is 1,039, with only 92 cases being currently active. As many as 946 patients including 38 on Thursday who recovered have been discharged from hospital.

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