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Monday, Jan 10, 2005

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Couple commit suicide

DAVANGERE JAN. 9. A couple from Chitradurga allegedly committed suicide at a lodge here on Sunday afternoon.

The police said that Chaitanya (31) and his wife, Nagachandrika (29), consumed poison at around 3.30 p.m. and committed suicide. In the letter, the couple said that they resorted to commit suicide as they were unable to lead a decent life, the police said.

The couple were rushed to Chigateri hospital where they were declared dead.

The KTJ Nagar police have registered a case.

Man dies

in accident

Raichur Jan. 9. A man was killed and one injured seriously when the moped which they were riding hit to a boulder on State Highway 23 near Kapgal village of Manvi taluk on Saturday.

The police identified the dead as K. Raddeppa. Raddeppa's brother, K. Bhaskar Rao, was injured.

The Manvi Police have registered a case.

Support for

protest

Bidar Jan. 9. The Akhila Bharatiya Jeeva Sena has extended support to the dharna by the Anyaya Viruddha Horata Samiti which is demanding basic facilities in Aurad.

In a release, the president of the State unit of the sene, Prakashrao Bhopalgadkar, said that members will hold a dharna demanding water, power, roads and other amenities in Aurad.

Agro-industries

demanded

Bidar Jan. 9. The Bidar Citizens' Committee has urged the Government to set up more agro industries in the district.

According to a charter of demands prepared at a recent meeting, the committee said that the establishment of agriculture and biotechnology based industries was the surest way to develop the backward district where agriculture was the majority occupation.

Members said that carving out a separate Bidar milk union, expediting work on the Bidar-Gulbarga railway line, setting up a government medical college, and strengthening Veterinary University will help develop the district.

KPCC aid for tsunami victims

BANGALORE JAN. 9. The Karnataka Pradesh Congress Committee (KPCC), which has been collecting funds for the victims of tsunami, has raised Rs. 1.57 crores. Funds from all its district units have been pouring in, and the party Treasurer, Shamanur Shivashannkarappa, who is also the Davangere MLA, has topped the list by collecting Rs. 34 lakhs, a statement issued here said. Apart from this, the Shimoga unit, whose collection for today was Rs. 1 lakh, was handed over to the KPCC President, B. Janardhana Poojary, by the former Minister, Kagodu Thimmappa, and others. The Tumkur District Congress Committee President, S.P. Muddahanume Gowda, and the party leader, Jagadish, have collected 100 quintals of rice, while the Basavanagudi Block Congress Committee has sent 125 quintals, which was handed over by the legislator, K. Chandrashekhar. The rice has been sent to Chennai in two trucks, which were flagged off by Mr. Poojary. Meanwhile, a team of volunteers from Seva Dal trained by the former legislator, U.R. Sabhapathy, is in Chennai for relief work. The statement said 850 quintals of relief material is being sent to Port Blair along with a team. The KPCC Secretary, Kenche Gowda, and V.S. Aradhya will accompany the team, Prakash K. Rathod, MLC and General Secretary (Administration), said in the statement.

Minister to visit Belgaum

BELGAUM JAN. 9. The Forest Minister, Gurupadappa Nagmarpalli, will visit Belgaum on Monday in the wake of reported mining despite objections to it in the Khanapur forests. Official sources told The Hindu that the Minister will meet the representatives of a non-governmental organisation, which has been complaining of illegal tree felling and mining in the Khanapur forests for long. Some members of the organisation have complained about the "silence" of the forest officials on the alleged smuggling of a medicinal herb, "Saptarangi", from the forests. The Minister is also expected to visit some of the areas where the alleged mining is on, and hold discussions with the officials.

Office-bearers of temple trust

BIDAR JAN. 9. Shashikant Durge, president of the managing committee of the Basaveshwara temple trust at Basavakalyan, was re-elected patron of the trust on Sunday. Fourteen others were elected to various posts. Veeranna Halshetty and Kallappa Ouse were elected patrons; Gurupadaiah Gadiyal Swamy, Vishwanth Belure, Gadigeppa Halshetty and Kashappa Sakkarebhavi were elected life members; Mallikarjun Chirade, Sidramappa Ranjire and Gourishankar Ambalagi were elected first circle members; Anilkumar Ragate and Shivraj Shashetty were elected second circle members; and Nagaiah Swamy and Shivanappa Raiwade were elected general members; returning officer and the legal adviser to the trust, Virupaksha Agadi, announced this in the evening. Kalpana Sheelvant was elected to the lone women's post in the trust, he said.

Department's gesture

BELLARY JAN. 9. The Department of Women and Child Development has volunteered to accommodate the children orphaned by the tsunami in Tamil Nadu and Andhra Pradesh, in its balamandirs. Bhagirathi Marulasiddanagouda, Minister for Women and Child Development, told presspersons at Bombi Colony near Rayapur in Kudligi taluk today that the department can accommodate many such children in its balamandirs all over the State. She said the officials of the department had been directed to contact their counterparts in the States affected by the tsunami and also the non-governmental organisations engaged in relief work. Apart from boarding and lodging, the department will look after the education of such children, she said. Ms. Bhagirathi visited the family of Narasamma, who was killed in the tsunami at Velankani in Tamil Nadu, last month. The Minister gave a compensation of Rs. 2000 to the family members.

KPCC meetings put off

BANGALORE JAN. 9. The meetings of the Executive Committee and general body of the Karnataka Pradesh Congress Committee (KPCC) to be held here on January 22 and 23 have been postponed. The KPCC President, B. Janardhana Poojary, has said that a decision is this regard has been taken as the All India Congress Committee General Secretary in-charge of the State, A.K. Anthony, will not be able to participate in the meetings on those days.

Govt. to postpone plan

BIDAR JAN. 9. The State Government is likely to postpone its plan to establish medical colleges in five districts, including Bidar, by a year as it has not submitted a "Budget Provision Proposal'' to the Medical Council of India (MCI) by December 31. In its application, to the MCI, the Government said that it plans to start medical colleges in Bidar, Raichur, Belgaum, Hassan and Mandya from the academic year 2005. According to the MCI guidelines, submission of a "Budget Provision Proposal'' by the end of the calendar year is mandatory for colleges, which seek to start courses the following year. The MCI website asks the Centre or the State governments planning to open medical colleges "to give an undertaking that the college will be given funds in their plan budget regularly till the required facilities are provided according to a time-bound programme.'' The State Government has estimated that it needs Rs. 40 crores to start the colleges and Rs. 130 crores every year to run them. But an undertaking pledging to provide this money in the plan budget was not submitted to the MCI before December 31. Sources, however, say that the Government has agreed in principle to start the colleges and that the Cabinet Subcommittee may approve the proposal at its next meeting. "This can have two consequences - the MCI may ask us to apply again seeking permission to start the colleges in 2006, and accept a delayed undertaking by us, considering it as a special case," a senior officer says. The sources say the delay in submitting the undertaking is due to the demand by residents of Shimoga that a government medical college be opened in their town too. The Government has deferred a decision on the issue and an application may be sent to the MCI for approval later.

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