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5,000 illegal hoardings removed in hours

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August 2, 2018

Bengaluru, Aug 2: BBMP officials were in a frenzy on Wednesday after High Court Chief Justice Dinesh Maheshwari gave them four hours to rid the city of illegal flex and banners.

This galvanised the BBMP with Commissioner N. Manjunath Prasad sending a message instructing the civic workforce to drop whatever they were doing and focus on removal of illegal banners. Later in the day, Mr. Prasad claimed that over 5,000 illegal flex/banners had been removed by 2 p.m. “The special drive to remove all illegal flex and banners will continue. We will free the city of all illegal advertisements by Thursday.”

However, residents were sceptical. Those from outer zones reported no change in their neighbourhoods.

“If the BBMP can remove 5,000 banners in four hours, why did they not do it before?” said Mahalakshmi Parthasarathy, secretary, Citizen Action Forum.

Defending its enforcement record, the BBMP claimed to have removed over 94,000 illegal flex and banners in the city from 2014-15 to date.

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January 16,2020

Belagavi, Jan 16: Six Poachers were arrested in two different cases at Gollahalli forest range in Kittur section in the district on Thursday.

The arrested were identified as Bharmesh alias Bharmappa Hanumant Bhajantri, Mallesh Hanumant Bhajantri residents of Budanakatti in Bailahongal Taluk.

Another alleged accused Yuvraj Basappa Bhajantri managed to escape.

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April 6,2020

Bengaluru, Apr 6: Popular Kannada comedy actor Prakash, popularly known as Bullet Prakash in the film industry, died due to multi-organ failure at a private hospital in the City on Monday.

He was 44.

He is survived by wife, one son and a daughter.

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June 20,2020

Tumakuru, Jun 20: An SSLC student of Siddaganga Mutt here was admitted to the isolation ward of the district hospital on Saturday after he showed Covid-19 symptoms.

Health officials said that the student, a native of the Kurnool in Andhra Pradesh, had returned to the Mutt via Raichur on June 15 for writing the SSLC examination scheduled to begin on June 25.

After he was admitted to the hospital the Health Department Officials kept three of his roommates under quarantine. Throat swab sample of the student has also been sent for testing.

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