Assembly proceedings begin; Two legislators are absent
Bengaluru: The State Legislative Assembly began with the song Vande Mataram.
Pro-tem speaker KG Bopaiah administered the oath to the newly elected MLAs.
First, Chief Minister BS Yeddyurappa took oath.
Total 218 legislators attended the House.
BJP’s 104 MLAs of 104 are present, from Congress 76 MLAs are present out of 78. Muski MLA Pratap Gowda Patil and Vijaynagar MLA Anand Singh are absent.
37 of 37 MLAs of JD(S) have arrived into the House. HD Revanna of the JDS arrived late to the House. Two of the independent MLAs attended. The BJP needs the support of 110 MLAs to win the confidence vote
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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.
