Minister inaugurates adventure sports ahead of NYF

January 8, 2012

Mangalore, January 9: With the clock ticking for 17th National Youth Festival, it is time for youth in the city to experience the thrills, spills and chills of adventure sports - be it on land, air and on water. Setting out to provide this experience is General Thimmaiah National Adventure Academy, which has organized a host of these activities for youth from Sunday up to January 11 for local youths and for the festival delegates from January 12 to 16.

Getting a firsthand feel of water sports were the top brass of the district administration under the stewardship of district in-charge minister J Krishna Palemar at Jeppinamogaru near here on Sunday.

Palemar, along with N Yogish Bhat, deputy speaker of the assembly, city police chief Seemanth Kumar Singh, DC NS Channappa Gowda, MCC Commissioner Harish Kumar, who got first hand taste of jet-skiing on the serene waters of the Nethravathi.

The Vanadurga Temple at Sri Kshetra Kadekaru will be the hub of water adventure activities that includes jet skiing, banana ride, and kayaking, while parasailing will be held at Panambur beach. Rappelling, jummaring, Tyrolean traverse, and other land based adventure sports will be held at Town Hall/Nehru Maidan.

The Academy has fixed nominal rates for all these activities barring land based adventure which is free for general public. Jeethendra Shetty, administrative officer of the academy, told reporters that the academy has deputed 41 instructors for the various adventure sports lined up till January 16. These activities will be offered free to the delegates of the Youth Festival, he said, adding that children above seven years are eligible to participate in the events. Utmost importance is given to safety of those taking part in these adventure activities, Jeethendra added.

YR Kantharajendra, joint director, department of youth affairs and sports and director of the academy, agreed to a proposal from the DC to give a demonstration of water skiing. The houseboat rides assured in preparatory meetings of the youth festival too would be held off Sri Kshetra Kadekaru and they would be nominally charged, the DC said.

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May 6,2020

Bengaluru, May 6: Karnataka has reported 20 new cases of coronavirus taking total number of cases in the state to 693.

The state health department said in a bulletin on Wednesday that 20 new cases have been confirmed for COVID-19 in the state. "The total number of cases in the state is 693," it said.

The count includes 354 patients who have been discharged and 29 patients who succumbed to the disease.

Out of the remaining cases, 303 patients are in isolation at designated hospitals while six patients are in ICU. The bulletin has also reported one death due to non-COVID cause.

The number of COVID-19 cases in the country reached 49,391, according to the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare on Wednesday morning.

This includes 33,514 active cases and 1,694 deaths due to infection so far.

A total of 14,182 persons have been cured and discharged so far, according to the Health Ministry. One patient has migrated.

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June 2,2020

Mangaluru, Jun 2: The Karnataka Muzarai department, whose main income comes through temple and other religious places of worship, has incurred a loss of Rs 600 Crore in revenue during the lock-down, Minister for Muzrai Kota Srinivas Poojary said on Monday.

Addressing reporters here, he said the Kollur Sri Mookambika temple alone lost revenue of about Rs 14 crore it was earning during April and May.

Around 300 A and B grade temples under Muzrai (Hindu religious institutions and charitable endowments) department in the State lost around 35 per cent of their annual income, he said.

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March 21,2020

Bengaluru , Mar 21: Karnataka Congress President DK Shivakumar exuded confidence that the party will return to power in the state and praised former chief minister Siddaramaiah's term.

"I am confident that we will come back to power. Everyone in the past has worked their best to build the party. Siddaramaiah being a full-term chief minister gave the best programs to Karnataka, his government's programs were the best of all time," Shivakumar said at a press conference on Friday.

He further assured his full support to anyone who wanted to work for the betterment of the party.

"Though I have become the state president of the party but I am still the worker of Congress and each of us should work for the party as ground workers. I am ready to give any kind of support to those who want to work for the party. We need to take all caste, communities along for the betterment of the party," he said.

Shivakumar was appointed the state Congress President on March 11, while Eshwar Khandre, Satish Jarkiholi, and Saleem Ahmed have been appointed working presidents of Karnataka Pradesh Congress Committee.

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satya vishwasi
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Monday, 23 Mar 2020

First Tell your all MP & MLA s that if they wish to join BJP better join from now later  after getting elected from the congress they betray the voter, such hiddnen sangis from congress to be kicked out.

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