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Upbeat Yeddyurappa convenes meeting of BJP MLAs, MPs on May 24

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May 20, 2019

Bengaluru, May 20: Buoyed over the Exit polls that projected big win for the BJP in the Lok Sabha elections in Karnataka, Opposition leader in the Legislative Assembly B S Yeddyurappa, who is also the Party State President, has convened a meeting of the newly elected BJP Lok Sabha candidates along with the party MLAs on May 24, a day after the Counting of votes polled in the recently concluded General election are taken up.

According to party sources, Yeddyurappa earlier had planned to convene the meeting on May 21. However it was postponed to Friday.

Almost all the exit poll surveys had given a substantial number of Lok Sabha seats for the BJP in Karnataka, predicting the party to bag between 18 to 25 seats out of a total of 28. This is in contrast to likely outcome even after coalition partners Congress and the JDS united fight and were given to win a mere 3 to 10 seats. This was far less than predictions.

According to top BJP sources, if the Congress-JD(S) combine failed to get reasonable number of seats, the fall of the coalition government would become ‘imminent’ as many Congress MLAs, who are sitting on the fence, are likely to jump over to the BJP and cause the collapse of the one-year-old JD(S)-Congress government.

Yeddyurappa, who had led the party’s election campaign in Karnataka, had consistently claimed that the party would win at least 22 seats. He had held several meetings with his close confidants and working out strategies to form the government in Karnataka, in the event of the collapse of the coalition government, the sources told UNI.

Meanwhile dissident Congress MLA and former Minister Ramesh Jarakiholi, who had allegedly vowed to pull down the coalition government, is also camping in Bengaluru and holding secret talks with Congress MLAs supporting him.

According to party sources, Ramesh, who had already announced that he would take a decision to resign to the Assembly seat after the Lok Sabha elections, may help BJP trigger collapse of the state government, by resigning to his Gokak Assembly seat he is representing and asking his his follower legislators to follow the suit.

It was alleged that Ramesh has at least three Congress MLAs, who are close to him, the sources added.

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May 3,2020

Mangaluru,  May 3: An unidentified vehicle mowed down a 62-year-old security guard near Guruvayanakere, Belthangady taluk, on Saturday.

The deceased Lingappa Moolya was returning to his home in Guruvayanakere on a two-wheeler when the hit-and-run case took place. Police said he was hit by a truck. A guard at an ATM, Moolya was also an active member of the local Kulala Association.

A case was registered at Belthangady police station.

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March 9,2020

Kochi, Mar 9: A three-year old child has tested positive for the novel coronavirus, officials said in Kochi on Monday.

The child and its parents who had reached the Cochin International Airport Limited at 6 AM on March 7 from Italy were subjected to thermal screening at the universal surveillance system established, officials said.

Detecting symptoms of coronavirus in the child, they were immediately referred to the isolation ward of the Kalamassery Medical College Hospital, they said. The samples of the child sent for examination at the NiV lab at Alappuzha have tested positive for Coronavirus, they said.

The samples of the parents have also been sent for lab test, the officials added.

Five fresh coronavirus cases, including three who evaded screening on return from Italy, were reported in Kerala, prompting the government on Sunday to sound a renewed alert and warn action against those hiding travel history to affected nations.

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March 3,2020

Bengaluru, Mar 3: Minister of Medical Education K Sudhakar on Tuesday said that there is no need to panic as appropriate measures have been taken by the state government to tackle a possible Coronavirus outbreak.

"I request the media not to spread panic and support the government in dealing with any possible Coronavirus outbreak. With the help of the Centre we have taken all required precautionary measures to deal with any situation," Sudhakar told reporters.

Talking about the first confirmed case in Telangana, who had stopped over in Bengaluru, the Minister said, "His flatmates and 23 people who travelled with him from Karnataka are being screened. Both the state (Karnataka and Telangana) government are taking care of them."

"Out of the 295 samples collected so far, 240 tested samples tested negative. We are awaiting more results as of now. There are two labs. One in RGICS and another in Bangaluru Medical College where tests are being carried out," he said.

On Monday, the first confirmed case of a Novel Coronavirus in Telangana was reported from Hyderabad when a 24-year-old man, who had come in contact with some Hong Kong citizens, while he was in Dubai on February 17, tested positive for the virus.

After arriving in Bengaluru on February 20 and travelled to Hyderabad by bus on February 22.

Meanwhile, Telangana Health Minister Eatala Rajender on Sunday said that the state government is on a high alert since the confirmation of one Coronavirus positive case here.

The Health Department has also issued an advisory to all educational institutes.

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