Mangaluru: Police close down shops in city to follow fresh COVID-19 guidelines
Mangaluru: In the wake of the second wave of deadly COVID-19, the Karnataka government on Thursday issued fresh guidelines to be followed by the people to control the spread of the virus. In the guidelines, the government restricted all shops except essential services to operate.
On Friday, several clothes, watches, shoes shops were open and operating in the city taking note of which local police under the supervision of Police Commissioner Shashikumar closed down all the shops and allowed only essential services to remain open.
Similar drives to close down shops were carried out at Hampankatta, Milagres, Central Market etc.
The cops then also raised awareness among the people to follow guidelines issued by the government to curb the spread of virus that has grappled the state and country.
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Count of voters in Gujarat drops by 73.73 lakh to 4.34 crore post-SIR
Ahmedabad (PTI): The names of nearly 74 lakh voters have been dropped from Gujarat's draft electoral rolls after the completion of the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) exercise, pegging the total count of electors at 4.34 crore as against the 5.08 crore earlier, an official said on Friday.
The draft electoral rolls were published here by the Election Commission on Friday.
A total of 73.73 lakh voters were omitted from the electoral rolls after the exercise initiated by the EC to clean the rolls, state Chief Electoral Officer (CEO) Hareet Shukla said.
"Before the publication of the draft electoral rolls, a total of 5,08,43,436 voters were registered in the state. After the publication of these rolls, the number of voters is now 4,34,70,109," he said.
"During the SIR campaign, the names of a total of 73,73,327 voters have been removed from the draft electoral roll," Shukla said.
The names of voters in following categories were deleted in the draft electoral rolls -- deceased voters (18,07,278), absent voters (9,69,662), voters who have permanently migrated (40,25,553), voters registered in two places (3,81,470) and others (1,89,364), a release from CEO office said.
The SIR exercise began in Gujarat on November 4 and ended on December 14.
After the publication of draft rolls, objections and claims regarding them can be submitted to authorities till January 18, the EC earlier said.
