Dakshina Kannada DC warns of FIR against miscreants circulating fake rain holiday order
Mangaluru: Dakshina Kannada Deputy Commissioner Mullai Muhilan has issued a stern warning that FIRs will be filed against individuals circulating fake order copies on social media, falsely announcing holidays for schools and colleges owing to rain.
The district administration has been issuing rain holidays for schools, PU colleges for the past few days, owing to incessant rains across the district. However, on July 18, the district administration has not declared a holiday for educational institutes.
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Fake orders purportedly claiming to be issued by the DC have been circulating daily on social media, causing confusion among teachers and students. To prevent such activities, the Deputy Commissioner has stated that appropriate action will be taken against those spreading false news about school holidays.
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Pakistan reports two more polio cases; Total tally now 52
ISLAMABAD: At least two more cases of poliovirus were reported in Pakistan, taking the number of infections to 52 so far this year, a report said on Friday.
“The Regional Reference Laboratory for Polio Eradication at the National Institute of Health has confirmed the detection of two more wild poliovirus type 1 (WPV1) cases in Pakistan," an official statement said.
The fresh infections — a boy and a girl — were reported from the Dera Ismail Khan district of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province.
“Genetic sequencing of the samples collected from the children is underway," the statement read. Dera Ismail Khan, one of the seven polio-endemic districts of southern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, has reported five polio cases so far this year.
Of the 52 cases in the country this year, 24 are from Balochistan, 13 from Sindh, 13 from Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, and one each from Punjab and Islamabad.
There is no cure for polio. Only multiple doses of the oral polio vaccine and completion of the routine vaccination schedule for all children under the age of five can keep them protected.
