Polls peaceful in Udupi-Chikkamagaluru; 75.8 per cent turnout

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April 18, 2019

Udupi, Apr 18: The polling today was by and large peaceful in Udupi-Chikkamagaluru Lok Sabha constituency which saw a voter turnout of 75.8 per cent. 

The voter turnout in the eight Assembly segments of the parliamentary constituency were: Udupi – 78%; Kaup – 77%; Karkala – 78%; Kundapur 77%; Chikkamagaluru – 69%; Sringeri – 78%; Mudigere – 73%; and Tarikere – 72%.

Hephsiba Rani Korlapati, returning officer and Deputy Commissioner, said that the polling was peaceful and no untoward incidents were reported from anywhere in the constituency. Eight ballot units and control units of Electronic Voting Machines (EVMs) and 53 VVPAT units developed snags and were immediately replaced, she said.

To beat the oppressive summer heat, most of the voters in the four Assembly segments of Udupi turned out in large numbers in the morning to exercise their franchise. As a result, there were long queues in front of the polling booths in the morning. In fact, 29.01% of the voters had voted by 11 a.m.

The district administration had made arrangements for wheelchairs and other facilities so that voters did not have any problems while voting. Citizens with health problems and the elderly were not made to stand in queue and were given priority to vote. At the Sakhi booths, supervised by women staff, adequate shade was arranged so that the voters did not have to stand in the sun.

These Sakhi booths also had children’s corners for mothers to leave their children to play while they went to cast their vote.

The Zilla Panchayat Higher Primary School booth in the naxalite-affected village of Someshwara recorded a turnout of 58% by 12.10 a.m., while the Government Higher Primary School polling booth in the naxalite-affected village of Kasanamakki recorded a voter turnout of 55.21% by noon. Both thee booths were guarded by personnel of the Indo-Tibetan Border Police.

Anti-Naxalite Force forces were constantly patrolling the booths coming under the naxalite-affected areas in the district. The ethnic booth at Sauda village recorded a voter turnout of 41% by 1 p.m.

Voting slowed down between 2 p.m. and 3.30 p.m. but it later picked up again after 4 p.m., when the intensity of the heat came down.

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March 19,2024

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Mangaluru: The Mangalore International Airport (MIA) will connect to a new domestic destination with the introduction of a non-stop flight to Tiruchirappalli International Airport in Tamil Nadu. 

The non-stop service, once-a-week, will operate on Wednesday (from TIA) and Thursday (from MIA), starting April 3. Air India Express will operate the flight.

The flight is expected to help those taking up a pilgrimage to Vailankani shrine.

Sources from the AIE said that the airline carrier decided to fly non-stop between the two southern Indian cities as a flight to Jeddah, which will start from April 3, arrives from Tiruchirappalli International Airport. 

“It is a ferry or positional flight from TIA to MIA. Instead of flying empty, the management has decided to run it as a commercial flight. This will help both passengers and the airline. The airline will deploy Boeing 737-800 aircraft with a 186-seater all-economy configuration on this route. 

The same flight, after landing in MIA, will further fly to Jeddah,” a source said. 

The flight IX 1498 will depart every Thursday at 5am from MIA to TIA. The TIA-MIA flight IX 1499 departs at 12.50pm. It is a one-hour nonstop flight. The same flights will also operate nonstop between Jeddah and MIA. 

The non-stop flight IX 499 will depart MIA at 2.50pm and reach King Abdulaziz International Airport, Jeddah at 6.25pm. The IX498, will depart from Jeddah at 7.25pm and reach MIA early at 3.40am.

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March 17,2024

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Beltangady, Mar 17: A three-year-old boy was crushed to death under the wheels of an auto-rickshaw in front of his house at Panakaje Mundadi in Belthangady taluk of Dakshina Kannada. 

The gut-wrenching tragedy took place on Saturday, March 16 morning when the boy ran out of home to the road. 

The victim has been identified as Kaushik, the son of Chandrashekhar and Usha couple. Their home is situated adjacent to the main road at Panakaje.

It is learnt that the auto-rickshaw failed to notice the boy who suddenly darted towards the road and hit him. 

Even though the injured boy was rushed to a private hospital in Ujire and later to Mangaluru, he breathed his last. 

The Beltangady traffic police have registered a case in connection with the incident.

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March 27,2024

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At least seven people have been killed when Israeli warplanes bombed an emergency center in southern Lebanon near the border with the 1948 Israeli-occupied territories with air-to-surface missiles, according to Lebanese security sources.

Two sources, speaking on condition of anonymity said early on Wednesday that the strike targeted the Islamic Group’s emergency and relief center in Lebanon’s southern village of Habbariyeh.

Jamaa Islamiya, a Lebanese group closely linked to the Gaza-based Palestinian resistance movement Hamas, said in a statement that “a number” of people had been killed, and called the strike a “heinous crime.”

An official from the group said “seven rescuers” were killed in the aerial assault.

Another Jamaa Islamiya official, also requesting anonymity, said a dozen medical staff were in the emergency center at the time of the strike, adding that bodies were being pulled from the rubble.

Lebanese lawmaker Hassan Mrad said “the Israeli aggression on Habbariyeh adds to the long list of Israeli crimes.”

Israel has been launching air strikes against Lebanon since the beginning of its onslaught against the Gaza Strip in early October.

An Israeli strike knocked down part of a building in the southern Lebanese city of Nabatiyeh on February 14, killing seven members of the same family, including a child, Lebanon’s official National News Agency said. A boy initially reported missing was found alive under the rubble.

In a separate Israeli attack, a woman and her two children were killed in the village of as-Sawana in southern Lebanon.

The Israeli regime launched its devastating hostilities in the Gaza Strip on October 7 after the territory’s Hamas-led Palestinian resistance groups carried out a surprise retaliatory attack, dubbed Operation Al-Aqsa Storm, against the occupying entity.

Israel's raids have resulted in retaliatory strikes from Hezbollah in support of the Palestinian people in the Gaza Strip.

The movement has vowed to keep up its retaliatory operations as long as the Tel Aviv regime continues its onslaught on Gaza.

The Israeli campaign in Gaza has killed at least 32,414 people, most of them women and children. Another 74,787 individuals have also been wounded.

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