Thunder accompanies heavy rains across Udupi: Lightning strike leaves two injured
Udupi: According to reports, thunder accompanied by heavy rains that occurred across Udupi on Monday night, has caused damages in several places in the district.
Brahmavar Taluk’s Nailadi Budaadi resident Nagaratna Bhujanga Shetty’s house was reportedly affected by the lightning strike that occurred in the night, causing him losses amounting to lakhs. Reportedly, there were six people in the house, including an infant. A woman sleeping in the house received burn injuries after electric sparks fell on her hand, it is learned.
Similarly at Nilavar, a local named Ratan Shetty, who was travelling on his bike was struck by lightning and reportedly suffered injuries. Taluk official sources have revealed that the injured is currently receiving treatment at the Brahmavar private hospital.
Reportedly, heavy rainfall accompanied by thunder and lightning was also experienced across the Kaup Taluk and several regions in Karkala Taluk and Udupi district have received a good amount of rainfall.
Let the Truth be known. If you read VB and like VB, please be a VB Supporter and Help us deliver the Truth to one and all.
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.
