Padubidri, October 3: Karnad based Vijeth V Shetty (18), who was residing at Malad in Mumbai, died as he slipped from a moving train last Friday.
Vijeth was a first year B. Com student in Dalmiya College of Malad. The tragedy said to have taken place between Goregaon and Malad, when he was on his way from college to CA classes. He died of severe injuries.
Vijeth was a talented student. He is the first son of Aleyur Doddamane Vamana Shetty and Karnad Kolambe Mane Swarna Jyoti Shetty.
Puttur, Jul 7: A woman died after a wall of compound collapsed on her in Dakshina Kannada district on Tuesday, July 7.
The victim was identified as Vasanti.
The wall got weakened due to heavy rain at Golithottu area in Puttur. Her body was sent to the post-mortem.
According to the police, the incident took place around 12.30pm when Vasanti was working in the backyard of her house.
Mangaluru, Mar 1: Karnataka Minister for Major and Medium Industries Jagadish Shettar said that the flight service between Mangaluru and Hubballi will begin on March 29 under UDAN scheme.
Speaking to reporters on the sideline of the meeting of Industries Commerce of Magaluru, here on Saturday evening, he said while the city of Ports is the second busiest international airport after Bengaluru in Karnataka, other places, namely Hubballi, Belagavi, Kalaburagi and Bidar, have come on the air map with the UDAN scheme.
Stating that UDAN launched by Prime Minister Narendra Modi was what the Golden Quadrilateral highway project of former Prime Minister A B Vajpayee had envisaged, Mr. Shettar noted that more flights are operating to and from Mangaluru now. This has paved the way for Industrialisation of the important city on the Bombay-Karnataka region, he added.
Bengaluru, Mar 23: Karnataka government today decided to go for complete lockdown. This includes the closure of all non essential government offices, suspension of all public transport services and banning of mass prayers in places of worships across the state.
Chief Minister BS Yediyurappa had expressed the need for a complete lockdown like the Janta Curfew on Sunday. Going by this, there will be no government transport services at least till March 31 and as many as 19,000 government buses will be off the road.
The government also decided to cancel the famous Karaga festival. The CM said that all celebrations and functions will be called off along with mass prayers in mosques and churches.
The CM said that they have decided to procure 1,000 ventilators and 10 lakh face masks in addition to other health equipments.
Private hospitals have come forward to spare their doctors and nursing staff to attend to Covid-19 patients in government hospitals, the CM said.
Yediyurappa also said that he has directed the health department to paste notification on the houses of residents who are infected with coronavirus. This is being done after people with indelible seals and home quarantined are reported to be roaming freely. The notifications will help neighbours to keep an eye on them.
The CM said the government-run Indira Canteen will serve free food to the poor until the lockdown continues. He also said that action will be initiated against non essential shops that are open despite a directive to shut down.
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