Amit Shah coming to Karnataka to weoo OBCs

October 23, 2016

Bengaluru, Oct 23: BJP?national president Amit Shah will attend a convention of other backward classes to be held here on November 27.

amit BJP?MLC?and former minister B?J?Puttaswamy said the convention will be held at Palace Grounds and will highlight the support of the OBCs to the BJP.

Puttaswamy, who is also the chairman of the BJP?OBC?Morcha, said the party was trying to mobilise two lakh people for the event. The convention will highlight the popular programmes implemented for OBCs when B?S?Yeddyurappa was the chief minister.

The convention is seen as a move by BJP?state president Yeddyurappa to counter his colleague K?S?Eshwarappa. Eshwarappa has been associating himself with Sangolli Rayanna Brigade to consolidate the support of dalits and OBCs, defying Yeddyurappa’s diktat that such mobilisation should be done within the party forum.

The BJP?has scheduled a convention of STs at Lingsagur in Raichur district on Sunday.

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Rare Rurk’s Ristella Skink found in Kodagu

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June 9,2020

Madikeri, Jun 9: A rare Rurk’s Ristella Skink was found by some wildlife enthusiasts on their way to Madapur in Kodagu district.

Ristella Rurkii, commonly known as Rurk’s Ristella, is a species of skink endemic to the Western Ghats of Southern India. It is a small, insectivorous, diurnal skink found in Shola grasslands and rain forests of hills ranges in parts of Karnataka, Tamil Nadu and Kerala.

The specific name, rurkii, is in honour of “Dr Rurk” who collected the type specimen in the Annamalai Hills, High Ranges, Travancore, and the Palani Hills, of Tamil Nadu and Kerala. It is endemic to rainforests South of Palghat Gap.

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Journalist tests covid positive; Press Club sealed

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July 6,2020

Mandya, Jul 6: With a journalist from Srirangapatna testing positive for Covid-19, the Mandya District Journalists Association was sealed as a precautionary measure.

Association President K C Manjunath said on Monday that as the reporter has tested positive for Covid-19, it was voluntarily decided to seal down the premises for another month.

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