Cong-BJP workers clash outside Hampinagar polling station
Bengaluru, May 12: Congress and BJP workers have reportedly clashed outside a polling station at Hampinagar in the city on Saturday. It is said that the incident happened followed by an alleged assault on a BJP corporator by a Congress worker during the voting.
Vijayanagar BJP candidate Ravindra alleged that the BJP corporator Anand was assaulted. But the police have not taken any action against the accused, he added.
But the police said that since the incident happened within the 100 mts radius of the polling station, the police are investigating the incident.
Bengaluru DCP Ravi Channannanavar said that as this polling station is considered as a sensitive one, a comprehensive investigation would be conducted into incident.
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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.
