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Health Minister UT Khader gets praise from Sonia Gandhi

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June 18, 2016

Mangaluru, Jun 18: Amidst the rumours of Health and Family Welfare Minister UT Khader's removal from the Karnataka Cabinet in its fresh reshuffle, he has earned the praise of Congress high command.

1utkAccording to highly placed sources, Mr Khader, who has topped a series of surveys conducted by various news agencies to assess the performance of ministers in the state, will continue to handle health portfolio even after the much awaited Cabinet reshuffle.

Sources said that AICC president Sonia Gandhi was impressed by the performance of Mr Khader in last three years.

Earlier, a section of Kannada media had reported that Shanthi Nagar MLA N A Harris will replace Mr Khader as the health minister.

However, a senior leader of Congress party, on condition of anonymity, rubbished the reports as mere “baseless rumours”.

“How can we drop a top performing minister? Some miscreants are spreading such rumours. UT Khader will not be dropped from the Cabinet,” he said.

In an exercise aimed at refurbishing the image of his government, Chief Minister Siddaramiah is all set for a fresh cabinet reshuffle within a day or two as Congress high command has reportedly given him a free hand to pick the new ministers.

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A. Mangalore
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Sunday, 19 Jun 2016

A million dollar question : why Siddaramayyah wants to sack UTK ????

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February 13,2020

Bengaluru, Feb 13: UK's Chancellor of the Exchequer Sajid Javid quit the Boris Johnson government as part of a cabinet reshuffle unfolding on Thursday and has been replaced by Rishi Sunak, reports said.

Indian-descent Sunak, 39, who is married to Akshata, the daughter of Infosys co-founder N.R. Narayana Murthy, was Chief Secretary to the Treasury since July 2019.

An analyst with Goldman Sachs before joining politics in 2014, Sunak, whose grandparents were from Punjab and emigrated to the UK from east Africa, is MP from Richmond (Yorkshire). He was Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Local Government in the Theresa May government.

Pakistani-descent Javid, who became the first Asian to become a Cabinet Minister when he was made Secretary of State of culture, Media and Sports in the David Cameron government in 2014 after stints as Economic Secretary to the Treasury (2012-13) and Financial Secretary (2013-14), was earlier the Home Secretary in the the Theresa May government.

He had then cleared absconding businessman Vijay Mallya's extradition to India in February last year following the decision by the Westminister Magistrates Court in December 2018.

Javid, who ran for Conservative Party leadership after May quit but lost to Boris Johnson, was made Chancellor by the later. In the reshuffle on Thursday, he was offered to retain his post if he fired all his advisors but declined and quit, the BBC reported.

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July 3,2020

Mangaluru, Jul 3: Four central crime branch (CCB) police personnel tested positive for coronavirus on Friday in Dakshina Kannada district in Karnataka.

So far, eighteen police personnel, including an official of the ACP rank and 12 from Ullal police station, have tested positive for Covid-19 in the district in the last few days, police sources said.

A policeman from Mangaluru Rural station and another from Puttur station have also been infected.

All the personnel who tested positive have been admitted to the designated Covid-19 hospitals.

City police commissioner Vikash Kumar Vikash said adequate protection has been provided to police personnel who were fighting the pandemic and the members of their families.

As of Thursday, the total coronavirus cases in the district stood at 923 and the toll 18 while the state's infection count has crossed the 18,000 mark with 272 deaths.

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April 4,2020
Udupi, Apr 4: District Commissioner Jagadeesh has warned that the vehicles of people who break lockdown norms will be seized.
 
Addressing the media, he said, “People who want to buy essential items are allowed come out of the house between 1100 hrs and 1900 hrs, but we have noticed that some are unnecessarily coming out and blocking the roads. If this continues, vehicles of such people will be seized.”
 
No new COVID-19 positive cases were reported since Friday Udupi district.

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