By-polls: Basel Mission booth registers 74% poll, Cascia 40% Total calm prevailed throughout Ullal one day after it went to polls on Saturday. All the electronic voting machines (EVMs) have been kept at KPT and the fate of the five candidates will be known on June 5, the counting day.
Passed Resolution
ZP suspends official for 'cheating' ryots The general meeting of the Bidar Zilla Panchayat, held in the city recently, unanimously passed a resolution to suspend the joint director of agriculture who has allegedly deceived the farmers by issuing cheques to dealers instead of the beneficiaries.
A genocide that went unnoticed The whole world was worried about 9/11, but nobody cares about the genocide in Kashmir valley in which the death toll was many times higher than that of 9/11, these words from the mouth of a Kashmiri Pandit was accompanied with tears tinkling down his eyes.
Pourakarmikas' dharna enters seventh day Former labour minister S K Kanta, who is leading the agitation threatened that these pourakarmikas, who were on contract basis, would commit suicide if their services were not continued.
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