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Pravin is Mangalore's new Mayor

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February 28, 2011

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Mangalore, February 28: Pravin has been elected as Mayor of Mangalore, while Geetha Nayak was elected the Deputy Mayor, in the elections held at MCC on Monday, February 28.

Pravin, a Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) candidate, defeated Appi of the Congress by a margin of 13 votes. Geetha Nayak of BJP defeated Mamatha Shenoy of the Congress by the same margin.

Pravin and Geetha Nayak secured the votes of 34 BJP Corporators while the Congress candidates secured 21 votes including a vote from an Independent Corporator.

Four Corporators namely Harish K Surathkal, Jayanthi Shetty, Abdul Azeez and Mariamma Thomas abstained from voting. However, Mariamma Thomas supported Congress candidates Appi and Mamatha Shenoy.

Two corporators Jyothi Jayaprakash and Harish were absent during the election.

Pravin, a mechanist, represents Derebail South ward number 24 and Geetha Nayak represents Mannagudde ward number 28.

The Mayor post was reserved for Scheduled Caste and the Deputy Mayor's for a woman (General)

Mysore Regional Commissioner MV Jayanthi conducted the election. Additional Regional Commissioner Manjunath Nayak and MCC Commissioner Dr KN Vijaya Prakash were present.

Former Mayor Shankar Bhat, MCC Opposition leader Ashok Kumar DK, Abdul Azeez, Mariamma Thomas, Amitha Kala and other corporators congratulated the Mayor and Deputy Mayor.

Addressing the gathering, Mayor Pravin expressed his gratitude to the leaders of the party as well as for the people who elected him. He promised that during his tenure he would stand for the expectation of the citizen. He also sought the cooperation during his tenure.

The Deputy Mayor sought everybody's cooperation to keep Mangalore clean, progressive and beautiful.

Congratulating the newly elected Mayor and Deputy Mayor, Rajani Dugganna, the outgoing Mayor expressed her satisfaction over her successful tenure as Mayor of MCC. She said “I am proud that several development works such as concretization, drinking water supply, road repairs have carried out. MCC has also bagged the second best city corporation award in the State during my tenure,” Dugganna said.

The newly elected Mayor as well as the Deputy Mayor are slated to hold the office till February 27, 2012.

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May 24,2020

Bengaluru, May 24: With 130 new cases, Karnataka's COVID-19 tally crossed the 2,000-mark on Sunday. Most new cases reported have interstate travel history with 97 coming from Maharashtra. The number of active cases in the state is 1,391 and the deaths reported so far is 42, including 2 for non-COVID reasons.

"Ninety seven of the 130 new patients are returnees from Maharashtra, the worst affected state in the country with 47,190 cases till Saturday," said a state health official. 

"The total number of COVID-19 cases across the state is 2,089, with 130 more testing positive in the past 18 hours," said the official.

Forty six patients were discharged from hospitals on Sunday taking the number of cured persons to 634. Of the 46 discharged, 18 are in Davanagere, 20 in Uttara Kannada, 4 in Chitradurga, 3 in Bagalakote and one in Haveri.

Of the 30 Karnataka districts, Chikkaballapura recorded the highest cases on Sunday at 27, followed by Yadgir (24), Udupi (23), Mandya (15) and Hassan (14).

Chikkaballapura is the home district of Medical Education Minister K Sudhakar, a doctor by profession, who is spearheading the fight against the pandemic.

On Saturday, the state's tally shot up to 1,959 due to 196 new cases, the highest single-day rise, with 195 of them crossing over from Maharashtra through the inter-state border, which was opened up as part of partial relaxation of the lockdown.  

The Karnataka government has imposed institutional quarantine on persons traveling in from outside the state, particularly by flight from Maharashtra, Gujarat, Tamil Nadu, Delhi, Rajasthan, and Madhya Pradesh.

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March 22,2020

Mangaluru, Mar 22: A video being circulated in the social media purportedly of a man infected with COVID-19 at a hospital here is fake, its authorities said.

The video which shows a youth, dressed in pink trousers and wearing a mask, struggling to breathe on a blue hospital bed, had gone viral after which the Wenlock hospital issued a clarification.

The video started circulating after Dakshina Kannada Deputy Commissioner made public Sunday that a person has tested positive for coronavirus at the hospital.

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"A video of a patient convulsing on a hospital bed is being circulated on social media. This video is not of Wenlock hospital. Besides, we do not use blue beds," the hospital said in a statement, adding that they will file a complaint with the police regarding the video.

The first COVID-19 case in the district was confirmed at the hospital on Sunday.

The 22-year old man who came here from Dubai was tested positive and is under treatment in the isolation ward.

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August 9,2020

Bengaluru, Aug 9: karnataka's Health Minister B Sriramulu has tested positive for the novel coronavirus. He has been hospitalised and is being treated for Covid-19. The minister has also asked all of those who came in contact with him recently to take necessary precautions.

Sriramulu made the announcement in a series of tweets on Sunday. He said, “After symptoms of flu, I have tested positive for coronavirus today.”

“Under the leadership of Honorable Chief Minister (BS Yediyurappa), all the departments of the government, including my department, have been working hard against Covid-19. From the time of corona's appearance, I have had the opportunity to visit 30 districts and work in harmony with the government's desire to treat people well. It is in this backdrop that I am going to be hospitalized and treated,” B Sriramulu said.

Karnataka’s Health Minister also added, “All those who have been in contact with me recently have been requested to take precautionary measures.”

Earlier this month, Karnataka Chief Minister BS Yediyurappa also tested positive for Covid-19. The state's Leader of Opposition and former CM Siddaramaiah of the Congress also declared that his samples too had returned positive for the infection. Both of the leaders are undergoing treatment for Covid-19 at the privately-owned Manipal hospital in Bengaluru.

According to the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare (MoHFW), Karnataka has 79,773 active cases while a total of 89,238 patients have been discharged in the state after recovering from Covid-19 and 3091 have succumbed to it.

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