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Clash of cultures: Found in closet, foreign couple's Mangalore visit turns sour

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April 22, 2012

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Mangalore, April 22: A bitter experience awaited a foreign couple, who had opted to stay at one of their new friend's room in the city, during their maiden Mangalore visit.

Benjamin Charles Ford and Jennifer Marie couple from USA were briefly taken into custody by city police after they were found naked inside the bathroom of a gents paying guest accommodation at Ujjodi, here.

However, they were let off with a warning by the police after realising that they were husband and wife and they had been invited to city by their 'new friend' identified as Abhishek.

Closed Door

Gladson and two other students from Kerala were staying at the room as paying guests in Ujjodi. While leaving the room on Saturday afternoon, Gladson had informed the caretaker of the accommodation that a new student named Abhishek would be joining them as paying guest. He also had requested the caretaker to make arrangements to repair a broken water pipe in the room.

It is learnt that when the caretaker visited the room on Sunday morning, Abhishek, who was standing outside the room, ran away. Surprisingly the room was locked from inside.

The shock

As his continuous knocking went in vain, the caretaker had to break open the door to witness a strange boy, who was later identified as Poornachandra Thejasvi.

The bigger surprise was that he found the door of the bathroom too locked from inside. When he forcefully pushed open the door with the help of others, a foreign couple were found taking bath.

As the news spread, police rushed to the spot. When they conducted a search in the room, they found a few condoms and medicines.

The guests!


Sources said that the couple, who are pursuing PhD, had visited Mangalore last night on the invitation of Abhishek, who had met them recently in Hampi.

“We have not come here with any bad intention. We even did not know that husband and wife taking bath together is a matter of concern here”, the couple was quoted as saying by a police constable on condition of anonymity.

Later jurisdictional Kankanady police clarified that it was a small issue and no one has been arrested. “The couple left for Kerala and we handed over Thejaswi to his parents”, said the police.

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July 6,2020

Wayanad, Jul 6: DM Education and Research Foundation (DMERF), headed by Dr Azad Moopen, has come forward to handover DM WIMS Medical College, Nursing and Pharmacy Colleges and its associated institutions in Wayanad to the Kerala Government. 

According to Azad Moopen, Managing Trustee, DMERF, the Kerala Government has been deliberating to set up a medical college in the area over the last 7-8 years to address the challenges being faced by the local population due to lack of local availability of advanced healthcare facilities under the government sector. 

The handover by DMERF would address the Government's need. DM WIMS is one of the few NABH accredited medical colleges in the country, he said.

The DM WIMS Medical College and its associated institutions were established by the DMERF Trust 10 years ago to help the backward community of the district. 

Run in a charitable manner, the medical college has a capacity of 150 seats and has seen two batches of doctors graduate from the institution. With a total built up area of 14 lakh sq feet, it also has a 700-bed super-specialty hospital catering to the local community and helping in training healthcare professionals, a 100-bed specialty hospital, a pharmacy college, and a nursing college.

A new medical college by the government will require substantial investments and minimum of 5 years to become functional. “We think that DM WIMS can cater to the requirement of the government and setting up another medical college might not be required to cater to the existing population,” he said.

Moopen also announced a donation of Rs 250 crore out of the total investment in the institutions to the government to provide treatment to the needy population in the backward, landlocked district and to train good quality doctors from the State.

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July 31,2020

Bengaluru, July 31: Denying irregularities in covid-19 equipment purchase by the Karnataka government, the state unit of the BJP has issued legal notices to Congress leaders Siddaramaiah and D K Shivakumar demanding that they apologize or face a defamation suit. 

The notices seek a public apology for the allegations levelled against the government on irregularities in the procurement of Covid-19 equipment and supplies. 

Both Siddaramaiah and Shivakumar, the Karnataka Congress president, have been doggedly pursuing allegations of corruption against the BJP government and have demanded a judicial inquiry. 

BJP general secretary N Ravi Kumar said that while the Congress leaders claimed that Rs 4,157 crore was spent during Covid-19, they also allege that the government has not responded to any of the 20 letters written by them. "If the government has not provided any answer to the Opposition, where did they get the figures from," he said.

None of the allegations of corruption is specific and the statements made are factually incorrect. "These statements, without any basis, have been issued calculatedly to lower the image and damage the reputation of the government, the Bharatiya Janata Party, representatives of the party and the ministers in the government," the notice issued on behalf of Ravi Kumar read.

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January 10,2020

Bengaluru, Jan 10: Demanding the setting up of a House Committee to probe the Mangaluru violence, former Chief Minister HD Kumaraswamy on Friday released multiple videos of the clashes that broke out during the anti-Citizenship Amendment Act protest that claimed two lives on December 19.

Janata Dal-Secular leader further demanded suspension of Police Commissioner PS Harsha and insisted that House Committee consisting of members of all the parties should be formed to probe into Mangaluru violence and said that magisterial inquiry ordered by the state government cannot be trusted.

"Constitute a House committee and produce the fact. The main culprit is the commissioner of Mangaluru, remove the officer as he is the main culprit. I am going to take this issue on the floor of the House." Kumaraswamy said during a press conference here.

Two people were killed in Mangaluru in the alleged police firing after protests against the Citizenship Amendment Act turned violent.

The Act grants Indian citizenship to refugees from Hindu, Christian, Sikh, Buddhist and Parsi communities fleeing religious persecution from Pakistan, Afghanistan, and Bangladesh who entered India on or before 31, 2014.

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