Former security guard is now Udupi Zilla Panchayat chief!

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April 28, 2016

Manipal, Apr 27: A man, who has worked as a security guard at the district stadium for the last 10 years, is now the Udupi zilla panchayat president! BJP members Dinaker Babu and Sheela K Shetty were unanimously elected as the Zilla Panchayat president and vice president respectively on Wednesday.

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Mysuru Regional Commissioner A M Kunjappa conducted the election process. The nominations were filed by the candidates from 9.30 am to 11 am and the process of selection was held two hours later. The house comprises of 20 BJP candidates and six Congress candidates. As the Congress did not field any candidate, the electoral process got over barely within a couple of hours.

The post of the zilla panchayat president was reserved for SC candidate and the vice president post was for women. The name of the candidate for the president's post was proposed by K Babu Shetty and Reshma Uday Shetty proposed the candidate's name for the post of vice-president.

The 38-year-old Dinaker Babu said that his appointment is a testimony to the democratic values that upholds equality. Dinaker has studied till PU and was working as a driver for the project director in the zilla panchayat for four years. He has also worked as watchman for the Sports Department for 10 years. With immense happiness, Dinaker said that he had contested for the first time and has reached to the highest post.

He said that rural development is his top priority and public grievance would be taken up immediately. The zilla panchayat would become a role model for all other zilla panchayats. Nepotism, corruption and anti-poor policies will not be entertained. Funds would be utilised effectively.

A booklet on the programmes of the zilla panchayat would be brought out to create awareness among people. The zilla panchayat will chalk out permanent drinking water projects and will also give priority to the scientific disposal of garbage.

He said that he will try to create awareness on rainwater harvesting among the general public to increase the groundwater table. Percolation ponds would be dug to increase the groundwater level. Skill development programmes will be started to help the youth. Babu stressed on a need to develop taluk and gram panchayats to strengthen the three-tier system of administration.

The 68-year-old vice president elect, Sheela K Shetty, is a veteran politician and BJP leader who has become a zilla panchayat member in her fourth attempt. She had earlier contested from Kaup and Padubidri in 1995, 2000 and 2005, but had lost. An ardent Yakshagana artiste, who prefers performing male characters, Shetty says that she has authored 10 books.

Her recent work is Koti-Chennaiah, which was released in 2015. She is also the president of BJP district Mahila Morcha. She said that the assurances made in the manifesto would be realised in a phased manner.

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shanu
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Thursday, 28 Apr 2016

uneducated sanghis always..... GO MATAKI JAI
Educated always says ....AAP ki jai...

mohdalthaf
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Thursday, 28 Apr 2016

This happens only In BJP. Uneducated leaders leading society.

Madhusodhan
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Thursday, 28 Apr 2016

congrats both of your, keep up the good work in udupi, surprised to c guard as a president,

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April 21,2020

Bengaluru: Seven fresh Covid 19 positive cases are reported in 24 hours which includes one death from Kalburgi. Of the 7 cases, Kalburgi and Vijayapura share 3 cases each and one case is from Dakshin Kannada, as per the Tuesday mid day health bulletin issued by the Department of Health and Family Welfare.

The deceased has been identified as a 80 year male from Kalburgi. He was bedridden from the past 3 years and was suffering from Parkinson’s Disease since 4 years. Health officials said that he came with the complaint of Severe Acute Respiratory Infection (SARI) and expired on Monday night.

Along with his death, the total death tally now stands at 17 and the total positive cases in the state is 415.

Kalburgi which recorded the first death for Covid 19 in India has so far reported 4 deaths including the above one. The first slot for recording more deaths in the state is now shared by Bangalore urban district and Kalburgi district with each recording 4 deaths each.

Kalburgi district now has 24 active cases.

All the three cases are females, reported from Vijayapura were the primary contacts of a Corona positive patient (P306), who inturn got infected from a patient with history of SARI.

Apart from the deceased male who tested positive, the other cases from Kalburgi is of 29 year old male with influenza like illness and other case is of a 61 year old male whose source of infection is yet to be traced by the health department.

The case from Dakshin Kannada district is from Bantwala region and the positive patient is a 67 year old female with history of SARI. She is getting treated at designated hospital at Dakshin Kannada.

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April 30,2020

Bengaluru, Apr 30: Four ministers of Karnataka have gone into self-quarantine after they got here in touch with a video journalist of native channel who has examined optimistic for COVID-19. The listing contains state’s Deputy Chief Minister Dr Ashwath Narayan.

All 4 introduced the quarantine on Twitter.

Mr Narayan, dwelling minister Basvaraj Bommai , medical training Minister Dr. Sudhakar and tourism minister CT Ravi tweeted to say that they’ve examined detrimental for coronavirus however will likely be beneath self-quarantine.

They mentioned they got here in touch with a video journalist from a neighborhood tv channel  who was discovered COVID-19 optimistic on April 24. He had met the ministers between April 21 and April 24.

At least 40 different contacts of the video journalist, together with his household and journalists from numerous media retailers have been quarantined, reported news agency.

Earlier this month, Gujarat Chief Minister Vijay Rupani put himself in quarantine after an MLA who attended a gathering with him turned out to be coronavirus-positive.

Karnataka to date had 532 circumstances of coronavirus. Of them, 215 sufferers recovered and 20 sufferers died.

Earlier immediately, the state authorities determined to chill out lockdown restrictions in plenty of districts the place the coronavirus has not had a serious affect. The authorities is permitting industries to operate in these areas with sure circumstances.

The listing contains spots in Chamarajnagar, Koppal, Chikmagaluru, Raichur, Chitradurga, Hassan, Shivamogga, Haveri, Yadgir, Kolar, Udupi, Davanagere and Kodagu districts.

Manufacturing will likely be allowed within the particular financial zones in these districts and standalone outlets exterior municipal limits will likely be allowed to operate.

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January 11,2020

Mangaluru, Jan 11: U Haroon bin Aboobakar Mukri, a businessman from Uppinangady passed away at a private hospital in the city today. He was 74.

He was undergoing treatment for multiple ailments including age-related diseases. He breathed his last at 12:40 a.m. on Saturday.

Son of Late Aboobakar Mukri, who was an Islamic activist and leader of Jamaat-e-Islami Hind in Uppinangady, Haroon was known for his generosity, kind-heartedness and simplicity.

An alumnus of St Aloysius College, Mangaluru, he was also a passionate traveller and life enthusiast, who always loved to meet people and spread positive vibes.

He is survived by his wife, four sons, a daughter and a large number of relatives, friends and well-wishers.

The funeral prayers were held at Masjid al-Huda, Uppinangady on Saturday afternoon. He was buried on premises of the same mosque.

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