Udupi tops, DK slips to fourth, Yadgir poorest: Check district wise performance in SSLC 2018

coastaldigest.com web desk
May 7, 2018

Newsroom, May 7: Karnataka’s twin coastal districts of Udupi and Dakshina Kannada have bagged first and fourth places in SSLC examinations 2018, the results of which were announced on Monday. 

In 2017, Udupi and DK had shared first and second positions. However, this year DK has slipped to the fourth position from second.

This year Udupi recorded a pass percentage of 88.18. Uttara Kannada bagged second position with 88.12% results. Yadgir district is at the bottom of the list with only 35.54 percent of students managing to pass Karnataka SSLC exam. 

In Bengaluru Urban area only 69.38 percent students managed to pass SSLC exam. The overall pass percentage is 71.93, announced Primary and Secondary Education Department Principal Secretary Shalini Rajneesh in Bengaluru on Monday. Rural students have done better than their urban counterparts with a pass percentage of 74 while those from the cities and towns have a pass percentage of just 69.38.

The Belagavi educational district showed drastic improvement by coming sixth, up from last year's 25th rank, while Chikkodi maintained the third rank for the second consecutive year.

Belagavi recorded a pass percentage of 84.77%, while it was 71.2% last year. Chikkodi district recorded 87.01% results, while it was 80.47% last year. Another district which showed a major improvement in rankings is Mysuru which came 11th, up 10 places from last year.

Check the performance of all the districts in Karnataka below:

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Comments

Cyprian
 - 
Monday, 7 May 2018

All the best kids. Congrats for the great achievement

Suresh
 - 
Monday, 7 May 2018

SSLC became less important than previous years... anyway congratulations to the winners

Danish
 - 
Monday, 7 May 2018

We have hope in DK.. DK will be an education hub soon

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August 9,2020

Bengaluru, Aug 9: A youth was killed and three others injured as a pillar of an old temple on the outskirts of Bengaluru fell on them as they and five others dug under it in search of treasure, police said on Saturday.

"One treasure hunter got crushed under a pillar, three suffered injuries and have been hospitalised while five are on the run," a police official said.

The incident occurred at a centuries-old Anjaneya temple in Hindiganala village near Hoskote, around 50 km away from the city, on Thursday night.

Suresh, 23, got crushed to death while Manjunath, 23, Srinivas, 22, and Sebastian Raja Rathna, 22, were injured.

Following the unexpected accident, the injured treasure hunters called a 108 ambulance, leading to the entire incident coming to light.

The ambulance staff helped the youth stuck under the temple pillars and took them to hospital.

Police have registered a case under various sections of the Ancient Monuments Act, the Karnataka Treasure Trove Act, and the Indian Penal Code.

According to the official, local youth the village as well as a nearby village were involved in the hunt.

Police are on the lookout for the five treasure hunters on the run.

However, the police official said that it was an old ruined temple and there was nothing there.

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May 3,2020

New Delhi, May 3: The Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) has crossed over one million RT-PCR tests for COVID-19 on Saturday evening marking a big landmark, ICMR officials said.

"We have tested about 10,40000 tests till Saturday evening. In a few days, we have increased our testing capacity. ICMR has been doing more than 70,000 tests in the last two consecutive days," he said.

On Saturday, ICMR released that a total of 976363 samples have been tested till date. From May 1 till evening on Saturday, 1,37,346 tests were done.

The top three states which are doing vigorous testing includes--Maharashtra, Tamil Nadu and Rajasthan. As on date, these three states have conducted more than one lakh test respectively.

However, Andhra Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh, Karnataka and Delhi still need to ramp up their testing capacity.

ICMR has always emphasised that the confirmatory test for diagnosis of COVID-19 infection is RT-PCR test of the throat and/or nasal swab, which detects virus at an early stage. Recently, Dr GS Toteja, Additional Director General of ICMR had said that to contain coronavirus infection, RT-PCR tests must be continued vigorously as the principal diagnostic tests.

RT-PCR tests are now available in 310 government laboratories and 111 private set up across the country.

On Friday, the Centre informed that ICMR has ordered 21.35 lakh diagnostic kits. As on date, India has reported about 37,776 confirmed coronavirus cases and 1223 deaths.

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April 26,2020

Davanagere, Apr 26: Amid the national lockdown imposed by the Centre to check the spread of coronavirus, social distancing norms were flouted as BJP MLA from Honnali -- MP Renukacharya -- held a meeting of ASHA workers on Thursday.

The workers were present in large numbers and no distance of at least one metre between the workers was maintained during the meeting.

However, the workers were seen wearing masks at the meeting but violating the norms of social distancing.

Social distancing is one of the measures that can help people avoid contracting the highly contagious coronavirus.

According to the Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Karnataka has a total of 489 positive COVID-19 cases of which, 153 patients have recovered and 18 patients have died due to the deadly virus.

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