Assembly poll witnesses many incidents
Bengaluru, May 11: Despite losing a family member, the grief-striking family members reached the polling station and exercised their votes at Naganur in Surapura taluk of Yadgiri district on Saturday and this attracted appreciation from all corners. A family member was died at the house of Somanna of the village. But the family members did not forget their duty of exercising their votes in spite of the situation they were in.
First vote from Halumata
With a belief that casting votes from Halumata (Kuruba) community is a good omen, voters from Kuruba community were allowed to cast their votes in most of the polling stations in Vijayapura district on Saturday. After Kuruba community people exercised their votes, others cast their votes.
From hospital to polling station
A patient Shivaram who was discharged from the hospital, directly went to a polling station and cast his vote. As soon as discharged from KS Hegde Medical College Hospital, Shivaram went to polling station 97 at Boliyar in Mangaluru and exercised his vote.
Dies after voting
Thimme Gowda died soon after he reached his home after casting his vote at Vaddarahalli in Mandya district on Saturday. It is said that Thimme Gowda (55) was suffering from ill-health for some time. In spite of it, he came to polling station and exercised his vote. But soon after he reached his home, he died.
Transgenders cast votes
For the first time, transgenders exercised their votes in the polling stations at Bengaluru CR Raman Nagar constituency and Mangaluru in Dakshina Kannada district.
Grandson misleads grandma
Though grandmother asked her grandson to vote for palm symbol (Congress), her grandson who accompanied her to help, cast her vote to JDS and it has gone viral in social media triggering a debate.
Photos go viral
Despite a ban on taking photos inside polling stations, the photos of voters who cast their votes to Congress, BJP and JDS candidates went viral in social media and created for and against debates. The voters who exercised their votes for their candidates took photos from mobile phones by overlooking the polling officers and uploaded in facebook and whatsapp groups.
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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.
