LS Polls 2019: JDS gets these 8 constituencies to contest
Bengaluru: The wrangling over seat-sharing between the Janata Dal (Secular) and the Congress has finally came to an end with the Congress agreeing to cede eight of the 28 Lok Sabha seats in the State to JD(S), including the Tumkuru seat that it holds.
As per the deal, which was finalised in Kochi after talks between Congress president Rahul Gandhi and JD(S) General National Secretary Danish Ali, JD(S) gets Hassan, Mandya, Bengaluru North, Udupi-Chikamagalur, Vijayapura and Uttara Kannada. The party also gets to contest from Shivamogga, which the Congress had ceded to JD(S) in the recently bypolls. Currently, Tumkuru seat is represented by Congress, while JD(S) represents Hassan and Mandya.
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Manipur: Mortal remains of children killed in bomb attack handed over to family
Imphal (PTI): The mortal remains of two children, who were killed in a bomb attack in Manipur's Bishnupur district in April, were handed over to family members on Saturday, officials said.
The bodies of the five-year-old boy and his six-month-old sister were kept in the morgue for 25 days, as the family members had refused to accept the mortal remains, demanding that the perpetrators be brought to book at the earliest.
On April 25, Chief Minister Y Khemchand Singh had appealed to the family members of the children to accept the bodies. Singh had also said that all efforts were underway to find the culprits.
The two children were killed in a bomb attack at Tronglaobi in Bishnupur district on April 7. Their bodies were kept in the morgue at the Regional Institute of Medical Sciences in Imphal.
The incident had triggered widespread violent protests in the five valley districts of Manipur, and the case was subsequently handed over to the NIA.
Hundreds of people lined up along the way to Tronglaobi to offer floral tributes, as the mortal remains were taken for the last rites in an open vehicle earlier in the day.
