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Four farmers commit suicide

April 17, 2017

Bengaluru, Apr 17: Four farmers, including a father and son, have committed suicide in different parts of Karnataka.

A young farmer and his father committed suicide within a span of a few hours unable to bear the financial loss incurred in agricultural activities at Gulladamane village in Tarikere taluk of Chikkamagaluru district.

While 21-year-old Yogish consumed poison around 4 p.m. on Saturday, his father Srinivas, 50, in grief over his son’s death, took poison on Sunday morning, according to Lingadahalli police. The family has three acres of land with areca and coconut trees. As there was no rainfall, the family had sunk a few borewells in their farm by spending a huge sum borrowed from different sources.

But none of them yielded water. Yogish, who was looking after agriculture, died in a hospital later on Saturday evening. His father consumed poison in his farm on Sunday morning and later died in a hospital in Shivamogga. Srinivas is survived by wife, son, and a daughter. Based on the statement given by his son Pradeep Kumar, Lingadahalli police have registered two separate unnatural death reports.

In Koppal district, a farmer was found hanging at his residence in Lebagere village of the taluk on Sunday morning. It is said that the farmer, identified as Ramanna Hadapad, 32, took the extreme step after all the four borewells he had sunk in his field failed to yield water. Ramanna had availed a loan of Rs. 1.75 lakh for sinking the borewells. Koppal Rural police have registered a case.

In Bidar district, a 48-year-old farmer ended his life at Karpakapalli village in Humnabad taluk on Friday. The farmer has been identified as Shamrao Chatnalli.

He had borrowed Rs. 5 lakh from banks and private moneylenders, his family members told the police. Bemalkheda police have registered a case.

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July 2,2020

Kalaburagi, Jul 2: Hoteliers in Kalaburagi have claimed that their business is hit due to night curfew timings in the state.

The night curfew in the state has been imposed from 8 pm to 5 am.

Speaking to news agency, Sudarshan, a hotelier said, "Peak business hour is 7-10 pm but now we close by 8 pm. There is almost no business. We are unable to pay our workers. The government should think about it".

"We haven't received any benefit from the government so far. If we are in trouble how will we help our workers? Relaxation should be given," he added.

Meanwhile, the Karnataka government on Tuesday announced a complete lockdown on Sundays till August 2.

So far, Karnataka has reported 15,242 COVID-19 cases, according to the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare. 

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Media Release
June 14,2020

Mangaluru, June 14: The management of Barakah International School and College has announced to waive off 33% of tuition fee in order to lessen the burden on parents who are undergoing financial crisis due to covid lockdown. 

This decision was taken after a series of virtual meetings with the Managing Director, Academic Director, Principal, Manager and PRO.

“While the school needs to continue to meet all the commitments and responsibilities towards the staff salaries, software, networking, etc, we fully understand that in the prevailing circumstances of the COVID-19 pandemic, job loss, reduction in salaries, general hardships of the self-employed businesses and the slowdown in the economy,” sated a release issued by the school.

“We would support our parent fraternity pro-actively and at the same time continue to meet the high-quality standards of our teaching- learning process and infrastructure so it has been decided that 1/3 of the tuition fee to be waived off for 2020-21,” the release said.

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July 24,2020

Madikeri, Jul 24: Water from river Cauvery, which is deemed as holy, and mud from Kodagu, the birth district of river Cauvery was collected and will be sent to Ayodhya for use during groundbreaking (Bhoomi Pooja) ceremony for the construction of Ram Mandir on August 5.

Workers of Bajrang Dal, Vishwa Hindu Parishat and Hindu Jagarana Vedike collected the soil and water from River Cauvery at Talacauvery Kshetra, the birthplace of river Cauvery.

Special pooja was offered at Talacauvery, praying for the timely completion of the Ram Mandir in Ayodhya.

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