Former IAS officer, Actor K Shivaram passes away at 70
Bengaluru: Former IAS Officer and Actor, K. Shivaram passed away a private hospital in the city on Thursday. He was 70.
The 70-year-old bureaucrat-turned actor is said to be the first person to clear the UPSC (Union Public Service Commission) Examination in Kannada.
Some of his popular performances include ‘Baa Nalle Madhuchandrake’, ‘Vasant Kavya’, ‘Sangliyana Part-3’, ‘Prathibhatane.’
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Post his retirement as the Bengaluru regional commissioner in 2013, Shivaram started his political journey by joining the Congress party. However a year later he deserted the Congress and joined the JD(S). He contested the 2014 Lok Sabha elections from Bijapur, but suffered loss to BJP's Ramesh Jigajinagi. Subsequently, Shivaram joined the BJP and was later appointed to the party’s state executive committee.
Shivaram is survived by wife Vani Shivaram and a daughter who is married to Kannada actor Pradeep.
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Maharashtra Cong chief Nana Patole scrapes through in Sakoli, wins by 208 votes
Mumbai, Nov 23: Maharashtra Congress president Nana Patole survived a scare from his nearest BJP rival in the Sakoli assembly constituency but managed to win the tight contest by a narrow margin of 208 votes.
Patole, the incumbent Congress MLA from Sakoli, polled 96,795 votes, while his challenger from BJP, Avinash Brahmankar, came tantalisingly close to bagging 96,587 votes.
Independent nominee Somadatta Karanjekar was a distant third, bagging 18,309 votes.
While Patole managed to save the face with the thin margin, the Congress unit led by him and the Maha Vikas Aghadi were routed by the BJP-led Mahayuti in the one-sided contest.
