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Nirmala Sitharaman, Devegowda, Kumaraswamy among early voters in Karnataka polls

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Bengaluru, Apr 18 : Defence Minister Nirmala Sitharaman, former Prime Minister and JDS Supremo, Karnataka Minister Krishna Byregowda are among the early voters in the first phase of Polling which began in the State for 14 Lok Sabha seats today.
Overnight showers in the State Capital and across South Karnataka helped bring down the heat as voters voters started arriving early at the polling booths. However, as the polling began on a brisk note the mercury also started increasing and voters were seen standing in queues near the polling booths.

Union Minister D V Sadananda Gowda, former Minister Revanna Minister D K Shivakumar also joined among the early voters by exercising their franchise with family in their respective Polling booths. The other prominent personalities who voted early were member of Mysore Royal Family Yaduveera Krishnadatta Wodeyar, S M Krishna, cricketer Anil Kumble and prominent seers Sri Vishwesha Theerta swamiji, Sri Siddaganga swamiji and Sri Shivaratri Deshikendra swamiji.
Police sources said that Polling was picking up and it was peaceful through out 14 Lok Sabha constituencies.

The out come of ongoing General Election will change the Indian Politics: Kumaraswamy

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Ramanagara, Karnataka, Apr 18 : Terming the 2019 Lok Sabha elections as very crucial, Karnataka Chief Minister H D Kumaraswamy predicted that the outcome will certainly bring a change in the country’s politics.
Speaking to newsmen, after casting his vote in Kethagaranahalli polling station in the District, he said that “People are expected to bring to an end to the Modi governance at the Center”.

Stating that a non-BJP government would be formed at the Center after the Elections, he said that “People were waiting for an opportunity to unseat the BJP government led by Prime Minister Narendra Modi”.
Replying to a question, Kumaraswamy said that “The Congress-JD(S) alliance candidates are expected to win more than 22 seats of the total 28 at stake”.
Expressing his dismay over Media for focusing more on campaigning in Mandya Lok Sabha, where his son Nikhil is contesting against Independent candidate Sumalatha Ambareesh, he expressed confidence of his son winning with a handsome margin.”
“In Mandya, the Media gave more publicity to the Independent candidate Sumalatha than the Prime Minister Narendra Modi” he added.
Earlier, Chief minister, accompanied by his wife and MLA, Anita Kumaraswamy and son Nikhil, arrived to the Polling station and cast their votes.
The Chief Minister appealed to voters in the State to exercise their constitutional right by visiting polling booths.

About 15 per cent Voting reported in the first four hours of Polling which began for 14 LS seats in Karnataka

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Bengaluru, Apr 18 : An estimated 15 per cent polling was reported in 14 Lok Sabha segments in the first phase of election (second phase in the country) at 10 AM.
Official sources said polling was peaceful throughout the 14 segments and barring minor glitches in EVMs the voting process was carried out seamlessly.
Karnataka Director General of Police Neelamani S Raju said no untoward incidents reported from across the 14 segments and polling remained totally peaceful.


Polling ws brisk in Dakshina Kannada segment where BJP’s Nalin Kumar Kateel is seeking his third term. It accounted for 32.10 per cent by 11 AM while it was lowest in Bengaluru Rural at 13.54 per cent.
In the other segments, Udupi-Chikkamagaluru recorded 29.01 per cent, Hassan 23.31 per cent, Chitradurga 16.75 per cent, Tumakuru where former prime minister H D Devegowda is the JD(S) candidate 22,62 per cent, Mandya 17 per cent, Musuru-Kodagu 19.99 per cent, Chamarajanagara 19.21 per cent, Bangalore North 15.85 per cent, Bangalore Central 15.27 per cent, Bangalore South 19.69 per cent, Chikkaballapura 17.57 per cent and Kolar 20/22 per cent.


Prominent among the total number of 241 candidates, who are in the fray in the first phase included former Prime minister H D Deve Gowda (Tumakuru), his two grand-sons, Nikhil K (Mandya), Prajval Revanna (Hassan), Union Ministers DV SadanandaGowda (Bengaluru North), K H Muniyappa (Kolar), V Srinivasprasad (Chamarajanagara), Veerappa Moily (Chikkaballapura), Rajya sabha member B K Hariprasad (Bengaluru South) and State BJP General secretary Shobha Karandlaje (Udupi-Chikkamagaluru).

Chief Editor Mr Rizwan Asad interviewing with Mr Syed Nizzamoddin
Chief Editor Mr Rizwan Asad interviewing with Mr Sampath Kumar Ex- Mayor BBMP


Top politicians and their family, seers and other prominent personnel queued up early in the morning to exercise their franchise and the early birds who turned up the polling booths were chief minsiter H D Kumaraswamy, former prime minister H D Devegowda, Union minister Nirmala Sitaraman, D V Sadananda Gowda, former chief minister Siddaramaiah, former External Affairs Miniser S M Krishna, Veerappa Moily ,Actor-turned politician Prakash Rai (Raj), member of Mysore Royal Family Yaduveera Krishnadatta Wadiyar, Infosys co-founder Narayana Murthy and his wife Sudha Murthy and seers including Pejwar Mutt head Viswesha Thirtha, Siddaganga Mutt seer Sidddaganga swamiji and Suttur Mutt seer Shivaratri Deshikendra swamiji, ace cricketer Anil Kumble and others.


In a tragic incident assistant polling officer Shantamurthy (48) died due to cardiac arrest while he was discharging his duties at polling station No. 48 in Hanur town coming under Chamarajanagara segment. He was the principal of Hanur Government college. Soon after polling began he fell ill and was shifted to nearby hospital but died.
Meanwhile polling process could be affected as weatherman has warned of widespread rains in the South Interior Karnataka late this afternoon. The region reported heavy rains in many districts in South Karnataka. This has caused concern among the candidates who fear that voting percentage could be affected.

Polling officer died of cardiac arrest

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Chamarajanagara, Karnataka, Apr 18 : An Additional Polling officer posted at Sultan Sharief Circle, in the town, died following severe cardiac arrest while discharging his duty
at his Polling booth today.
According to Official sources the deceased was identified as Shanthamurthy (48), Principal of a College at Hanur.
He complained severe chest pain and was immediately rushed to nearby Hospital where he breathed last.

HAL re-commences Flight testing of Modified Intermediate Jet Trainer (IJT 36)

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Bengaluru, April 18 : HAL recommenced flight testing of modified Intermediate Jet Trainer (IJT) on Wednesday from its facilities here and the flight test was flawless.
The flight testing of IJT (HJT 36), designed and developed by HAL for the stage-II training of IAF pilots was put on hold after the aircraft had encountered problem in the spin test flights in the year 2016, according to a press release by HAL here on Thursday.
HAL CMD R Madhavan said that ?HAL continued its R&D efforts and undertook modification of IJT LSP4 aircraft based on extensive and comprehensive wind tunnel studies?.
HAL’s research, design and technical teams carried out the modifications required with more challenges ahead, he added.

Bata fined Rs 9000 for asking customer to pay Rs 3 for carry bag

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The forum observed that if companies were really worried about the environment, they should provide environment-friendly bags for free to their customers.

Bata India Limited has been told to pay Rs 9,000 to a consumer for deficiency in services. Acting on a complaint filed by the customer, a Chandigarh consumer forum has slammed Bata for asking the customer to pay Rs 3 for a paper bag.

In his complaint, Chandigarh resident Dinesh Prasad Raturi, told the consumer forum that he had purchased a pair of shoes on February 5 from a Bata store located in Sector 22D. The store charged him Rs 402 which also included charges for the paper bag. Raturi told the forum that by charging him for the bag, Bata was also endorsing its brand on the bag which was not justified.

The complainant sought a refund of Rs 3 and compensation for deficiency in services. Countering this, Bata India refuted the allegations of deficiency in services. The forum said compelling a customer to pay for a paper bag was a clear deficiency in service as it was the store’s duty to provide a free bag to the customer who had purchased their product.

The consumer forum has also directed Bata India to provide free paper bags to its customers. It also observed that if the companies were really worried about the environment, they should provide free environment-friendly bags to their customers.

The forum in its decision has directed Bata India Limited to refund the cost of the bag (Rs 3) and litigation charges, i.e. Rs 1000.

Besides asking Bata to pay Rs 3000 as compensation to the customer for the mental agony caused by deficiency in services, the forum has also directed the leading shoe brand to deposit Rs 5,000 in the legal aid account of the State Consumer Disputes Redressal Commission.

The Chandigarh consumer forum’s decision is an eye opener for stores that compel customers to pay up to Rs five for carry bags.

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K’taka IAS officer deputed as poll observer suspended for checking PM Modi’s copter

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Mohammed Mohsin was suspended with immediate effect for acting contrary to the instructions of the Commission concerning SPG protectees.

The Election Commission on Wednesday suspended a General Observer belonging to Karnataka IAS cadre for allegedly checking Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s helicopter in Odisha’s Sambalpur on Tuesday.

Mohammed Mohsin was suspended with immediate effect for acting contrary to the instructions of the Commission concerning SPG protectees and will be posted at Sambalpur till further orders, a poll panel letter dated April 16 said.

A Karnataka cadre officer of the Indian Administrative Service, Mohsin was deputed as a General Observer and working under the supervision of the poll panel in Odisha.

“… the Commission has considered the material available before it and prima facie finds it dereliction of duty,” said the letter.

Sources told the Times of India that when PM Modi reached Sambalpur to address a rally on Tuesday, election officials inspected his convoy, which constituted a violation of protocol. 

A senior police officer present at Sambalpur airstrip, speaking on condition of anonymity told ToI, “A team of poll officials led by Mohsin inspected some papers in the chopper carrying the PM. The inspection delayed his arrival at the meeting venue by around 20 minutes which was reported to the ECI.”

The Prime Minister had visited Odisha on Tuesday and addressed two rallies in Sambalpur and Bhubaneswar.

Mohsin is presently secretary in the backward classes department. Karnataka Chief Secretary TM Vijay Bhaskar said he was not aware of the incident and said the state cannot intervene in the matter. 

On whether the official is barred from carrying out his duties after the elections as a result of the order, Bhaskar said, “Only after we receive further directives from the commission we can consider the next step.” 

Earlier this week, the Karnataka Congress had tweeted a 14-second video clip showing two men carrying a black box allegedly unloaded from Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s helicopter to a private Innova parked at a helipad, claiming that the video was filmed soon after Modi landed in Chitradurga last week to address an election rally. The Congress demanded that the EC conduct a probe into the same.

Agencies

EVM glitches delay voting in some booths

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Chennai/Madurai, Apr 18 : Technical glitches in Electronic Voting
Machines (EVMs) in some of the polling booths in Tamil Nadu delayed
the voting process, as polling for 38 Lok Sabha seats and 18 Assembly
seats began on Thursday morning.

Polling with began at 0700 hrs has been progressing peacefully, police
said.

People were forced to stand in queue for additional time in several
booths as minor glitches were reported in EVMs leading to a delay
in polling process.

Reports of glitches in EVMs were received from Tiruchirapalli, Dindigul,
Kanyakumari, Nagapattina, Mayiladuthurai, Theni and Tirunelveli Lok Sabha
constituencies, besides in some booths in Chennai and other districts.

Reports said malfunctioning of EVMs were reported in Kamanaickenpalayam
and Kaduvetti in Tiruchirapalli, Padmanabhapuram in Kanyakumari,
Ottanchathram in Dindigul and Avaraikulam in Tirunelveli.

PMK candidate for Dindigul Lok Sabha, K.Jothimuthu returned from a booth
at KR Government Higher Secondary School in Ottanchathiram, while DMK
party’s Tirunelveli Lok Sabha candidate S.Gnanathiraviyam also returned
without casting his vote owing to glitches in EVMs in the polling booth
at Avaraikulam.

Election officials said engineers were sorting out the technical problem
and voting will commence very soon.

Meanwhile, polling has been stopped in seven booths in Madurai North
Assembly segment after the voters complained that stickers were found
on the EVMs with suspicious signature mentioning the letters AIADMK.

Election officials rushed to the booths and are verifying the complaints.

Voting begins in 2nd phase of LS polls on 95 seats

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New Delhi, Apr 18 : Voting began at 0700 hrs on Thursday as polling kicked off for the second phase of Lok Sabha elections in 95 constituencies spread over 11 states and one Union Territory.

Polling is being held in 38 constituencies in Tamil Nadu, 14 in Karnataka, 10 in Maharashtra, 8 in Uttar Pradesh, five each in Assam, Bihar and Odisha, three each in Chhattisgarh and Bengal, two in Jammu and Kashmir and one each in Manipur and Puducherry. Elaborate security is in place to ensure peaceful and smooth conduct of Lok Sabha polls.

As per the original schedule, 97 seats were to go to polls in the second phase but the election to Vellore in Tamil Nadu was cancelled over allegations of excessive use of money power while polling in Tripura (East) has been deferred for the third phase over law and order situation there.

Out of 95 Lok Sabha seats going to polls in this phase, AIADMK had won 36 and BJP 26 seats in the 2014 general elections.

High voltage and hectic canvassing witnessed the star campaigners, including Prime Minister Narendra Modi, BJP chief Amit Shah and Congress President Rahul Gandhi, addressing rallies in poll-bound states and taking potshots at each other.

About 1,600 candidates are in the fray and nearly 15 crore electors are expected to decide their fate.

Prominent candidates in the second phase include former Prime Minister H D Deve Gowda and Union Ministers Sadanand Gowda and Jitendra Singh. Film star-turned politician Hema Malini, erstwhile Union Minister Dayanidhi Maran, DMK leader Kanimozhi, former Maharashtra Chief Minister Ashok Chavan, ex-Home Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde, former Law Minister Veerappa Moily, UP Congress chief Raj Babbar, former Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Dr Farooq Abdullah, BSP leader Danish Ali and CPI(M) stalwart Mohammed Salim are also in the fray.

In Tamil Nadu, key seats in the second phase include Kanniyakumari, Sivaganga, Chennai Central and Thoothukkudi along with simultaneous byelections to 18 Assembly constituencies. In Odisha, the focus will be on Kandhamal seat and in Chhattisgarh all eyes will be riveted on Rajnandgaon constituency. The hot seats in Bihar include Katihar and Bhagalpur.

50 lakh jobs lost after demonetisation : Report

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Nearly 50 lakh people in India lost their jobs between 2016-2018, a report said highlighting that the “beginning of the decline” coincided with demonetisation, although “no direct causal relationship could be established” between the trends.

The report by Azim Premji University’s titled State of Working India was based on the CMIE-CPDX data that highlighted India’s unemployed were mostly the youth.

“In general, women are much worse affected than men. They have higher unemployment rates, as well as lower labour force participation rates,” it added.

The report revealed that unemployment, in general, has risen steadily post 2011. Both the Periodic Labour Force Survey and the CMIE-CPDX report the overall unemployment rate to be around 6 per cent in 2018, double of what it was in the decade from 2000 to 2011.”

“Among urban women, graduates are 10 per cent of the working age population but 34 per cent of the unemployed. The age group 20-24 years is hugely over-represented among the unemployed.

“Among urban men, for example, this age group accounts for 13.5 per cent of the working age population but 60 per cent of the unemployed.”

Besides, the report noted that “in addition to rising open unemployment among the higher educated, the less educated (and likely, informal) workers have also seen job losses and reduced work opportunities since 2016.

Earlier in February, the National Sample Survey Office’s (NSSO’s) periodic labour force survey (PLFS) had stated that India’s unemployment rate hit a 45-year high of 6.1 per cent in 2017.

The NSSO report was reportedly based on data collected between July 2017 and June 2018 and is the first official survey post-demonetisation.

However, the NITI Aayog debunked claims of jobless growth saying that the report was not a final one.

Earlier, the Centre for Monitoring Indian Economy (CMIE) had stated that 1.5 million jobs were lost just in the first four months of 2017—immediately after demonetisation of old 500 and 1000 rupee notes.

The issue hogged the limelight after two independent members of the National Statistical Commission — acting Chairman PC Mohanan and JV Meenakshi — resigned on January 28 over a disagreement with the Government on certain issues.

One issue pertains to the government withholding the release of the results of NSSO’s quinquennial survey, for the year 2017-18 even though the commission approved the report. This gains significance in the wake of the government being criticised for a scarcity of jobs in the country.

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