Kasargod all set for polling day for Lok Sabha elections
10,11,031 eligible voters in the constituency for Tuesday's poll day
Kasargod: Kasargod is all set to go into polling for Lok Sabha Election on Tuesday with 10,11,031 eligible voters set to exercise their voting right from across the constituency.
The 968 polling booths in the constituency are also well equipped to go into the polling day on Tuesday and adequate materials and equipments have been provided to the booths.
Training was provided at Kasargod Government College and Padnekad Nehru College to the staffs who have been appointed for election duty.
The district has a total of 10,11,031 voters out of which 5,15,942 are female voters and 4,95,088 are male voters. 24,859 new voters will also cast votes for first time.
All the polling booths have been equipped with VVPAT machines with other basic facilities as directed by the Election Commission of India.
A lot of curiosity has gripped the constituency going into this Lok Sabha Election, as the constituency was a bastion of the CPM led LDF for over 30 years and has been led by LDF. This time around UDF led by Congress and the Bharatiya Janata Party are also expected to bag good number of votes in the constituency.
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Tsunami alert after a volcano in Indonesia has several big eruptions and thousands are told to leave
Jakarta, Apr 17: Indonesian authorities issued a tsunami alert Wednesday after eruptions at Ruang mountain sent ash thousands of feet high. Officials ordered more than 11,000 people to leave the area.
The volcano on the northern side of Sulawesi island had at least five large eruptions in the past 24 hours, Indonesia's Centre for Volcanology and Geological Disaster Mitigation said. Authorities raised their volcano alert to its highest level.
At least 800 residents left the area earlier Wednesday.
Indonesia, an archipelago of 270 million people, has 120 active volcanoes. It is prone to volcanic activity because it sits along the “Ring of Fire,” a horseshoe-shaped series of seismic fault lines around the Pacific Ocean.
Authorities urged tourists and others to stay at least 6 km (3.7 miles) from the 725-metre (2,378 foot) Ruang volcano.
Officials worry that part of the volcano could collapse into the sea and cause a tsunami as in a 1871 eruption there.
Tagulandang island to the volcano's northeast is again at risk, and its residents are among those being told to evacuate.
Indonesia's National Disaster Mitigation Agency said residents will be relocated to Manado, the nearest city, on Sulawesi island, a journey of six hours by boat.
In 2018, the eruption of Indonesia's Anak Krakatau volcano caused a tsunami along the coasts of Sumatra and Java after parts of the mountain fell into the ocean, killing 430 people.
