Webcasting in 247 polling booths in DK, 197 booths in Udupi

March 30, 2014

Mangalore/Udupi, Mar 30: Dakshina Kannada and Udupi district administrations are gearing up to implement webcasting in hundreds of polling booths under their jurisdiction during April 17 Lok Sabha polls. According to officials, 247 booths in Dakshina Kannada and 197 booths in Udupi will adopt webcasting method.

Students are given opportunity to record the election proceedings from polling stations and uplink it with the district administration's website using internet through the webcasting programme, which was introduced in 2013 assembly elections.

In Mangalore, a meeting in this regard was held at the deputy commissioner's office here on Thursday. Representatives from 16 engineering colleges including the NITK, Surathkal and BSNL officials took part in the meet.

"During the Assembly elections, live streaming through webcasting was conducted at 272 booths. We have plans to introduce webcasting in 247 vulnerable booths across the eight assembly segments in the constituency. A total of 220 schools in the district have BSNL broadband connections. The district administration will request the Chief General Manger, BSNL, Bangalore to see if the modems can be provided on rent for the rest of the booths," Dakshina Kannada deputy commissioner A B Ibrahim said.

Udupi Deputy Commissioner Dr Muddumohan said that webcasting will be taken up with the engineering college students of MIT, Moodalkatte and Nitte engineering colleges. The students from engineering colleges will get an opportunity to operate webcam enabled laptops in selected polling booths and capture live polling video which will be uploaded in the district administration 's official website.

Accordingly, 182 students from MIT, 126 from Moodalkatte engineering college and 100 from Nitte engineering college will take part.

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Post-Sabarimala pilgrimage drinking party turns fatal in Udupi; youth killed in midnight brawl

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December 15,2025

Udupi, Dec 15: What was meant to be a post-pilgrimage gathering turned tragic in Padukere village of Brahmavar taluk, Udupi district, late Sunday night, when a clash among youths escalated into a fatal assault, leaving one man dead.

The victim has been identified as 30-year-old Santosh Mogaveera, a resident of Padukere.

According to preliminary information, the incident took place during a late-night drinking party involving a group of local youths who had recently returned after completing their pilgrimage to the Sabarimala shrine. An argument reportedly broke out among the group and soon escalated into a violent confrontation.

During the ensuing brawl, Santosh Mogaveera was allegedly assaulted and collapsed at the spot after sustaining serious injuries. He was rushed by local residents to a private hospital in Brahmavar, where doctors declared him dead.

On receiving information, senior police officials, including Brahmavar Circle Inspector Gopikrishna, Kota Police Sub-Inspector Praveen Kumar T, Station ASI Manthesh Jabagoudar, and head constables Pradeep and Ashok, visited the spot and conducted an inspection.

Police have taken four youths into custody in connection with the incident. A case has been registered at the Kota police station, and further investigation is underway to ascertain the exact sequence of events leading to the death.

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