Polls for 6 MLC seats on June 8
BENGALURU: After assembly polls, biennial elections to three teachers’ and three graduates’ constituencies to the legislative council will be held on June 8.
According to poll schedule issued by the Election Commission, a notification will be issued on May 15, the counting day for assembly polls. Last date of filing of papers will be May 22 and scrutiny will be held on May 23. The last date of withdrawal is May 25.
The six sitting members, who will retire on June 21 paving the way for the elections, are Ramesh Babu (southeast teachers) Marithibbe Gowda (south teachers), Capt Ganesh Karnik (southwest teachers) D H Shankara Murthy (southwest graduates), Ramachandra Gowda (Bangalore graduates) and Amarnath Patil (northeast graduates). The parties are expected to declare the candidates soon after the results for assembly polls are announced.
Polling will take place from 8am to 4pm on June 8 while the votes will be counted on June 12.
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Two more infants die, toll in Jhansi medical college fire rises to 17
Jhansi (UP) (PTI): Two more infants rescued from a fire that ripped through the Maharani Laxmi Bai Medical College here have died, taking the total toll in the blaze to 17, a senior official said on Sunday.
Thirty-nine newborns were rescued from a devastating fire in the medical college hospital's neonatal intensive care unit on the night of November 15.
Dr Narendra Singh Sengar, the medical college's principal, told PTI that of the 39 infants rescued, two more died on Saturday.
While 10 babies died on the night of the fire, the remainder succumbed to their "illnesses", he said.
A post-mortem of the two bodies was done on Saturday and the cause of death was confirmed as "illness" in both cases. The bodies have been handed over to the family members, Sengar said.
The birth weight of both infants was 800 grams and one of them also had a hole in the heart, he added.
Meanwhile, Congress sources said on Sunday that the party's state chief Ajay Rai and Barabanki MP Tanuj Punia would travel to Jhansi and visit the medical college. They will also meet the families whose babies died in the fire.
