Mangaluru: Tibetan Spiritual leader Dalai Lama on Thursday arrived at the Mangaluru International Airport for his two-day visit to the city where he will take part in a conference organised by All India Catholic School on Friday.

Dalai Lama arrived in the city on Thursday afternoon around 12.30 pm where he was welcomed by Mangaluru Assistant Commissioner Ravichandra Nayak, Deputy Police Commissioner Arunangshu Giri and Lakshmi Ganesh. He was also greeted by traditional Tibetan dance outside the airport.

In the wake of Dalai Lama’s visit security at the airport was beefed up at the Mangaluru International Airport and the Buddhist monk was escorted to a private hotel in the city where he will city in Zero Traffic amidst heavy security.

According to the reports Dalai Lama will take part in a conference organised by All India Catholic School at Father Muller Hall here in the city on August 30.

He is later expected to leave for Bengaluru on August 31 Saturday morning on flight.

 

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Ranchi(PTI): The Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) has emerged as a surprise element in the Jharkhand assembly elections with its candidates leading in five of the six seats where the party is contesting, according to trends available on the Election Commission's website on Saturday.

RJD candidates in five assembly seats were leading over sitting BJP legislators.

In 2019, RJD had secured only the Chatra seat where its nominee Satyanand Bhokta won.

In Deoghar, RJD’s Suresh Paswan was leading by 19,581 votes over his nearest rival and BJP's sitting MLA Narayan Das after the third round of counting.

RJD’s Sanjay Prasad Yadav was ahead by 19,867 votes in Godda over BJP MLA Amit Kumar Mandal after the sixth round of counting.

In Koderma, RJD nominee Subhash Prasad Yadav, who was out on bail, was leading by a margin of 3,471 votes over BJP’s sitting legislator Neera Yadav.

Subhas Prasad Yadav, considered to be one of the close aides of RJD supremo Lalu Prasad, was recently granted bail by the Supreme Court in a money laundering case.

Party’s Naresh Prasad Singh was leading by 5,159 votes after the fourth round of counting over BJP’s Bishrampur MLA Ramchandra Chandravanshi.

RJD's Sanjay Kumar Singh Yadav was also leading from Hussainabad by 8,213 votes after the fourth round of counting over BJP MLA Kamlesh Kumar Singh.

Party’s candidate Rashmi Prakash, however, was trailing from Chatra by 3,776 votes.

Bhokta did not contest the elections this time, and his daughter-in-law Prakash was given a ticket.