Vasu Pujari elected President, Moonish Ali as Vice President of Bantwal Municipality
Bantwal: In the Bantwal Municipality elections held today, Congress's Vasu Pujari Loretto was elected as the President, while Moonish Ali of the Social Democratic Party of India (SDPI) was elected as the Vice President.
The election saw Congress and SDPI joining hands, with SDPI supporting Vasu Pujari for the president's post, and Congress backing Moonish Ali for the vice-presidential role. The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) fielded A. Govinda Prabhu for President and Hariprasad for Vice President.
In the 27-member Bantwal Municipality, both BJP and Congress hold 11 seats each, while SDPI has 4 seats, with one seat remaining vacant.
Despite Dakshina Kannada MP K. Brijesh Chowta and Bantwal MLA Rajesh Naik's participation (both representing BJP), which raised BJP's position to 13, the Congress-SDPI alliance secured the victory after they formed an alliance.
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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.
