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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Bengaluru, Feb 23 (PTI): Karnataka Ministers on Sunday urged citizens to maintain peace in Belagavi as tensions over the border dispute resurfaced.

Amid the ongoing language-related controversy, the state Ministers called on the public to prevent miscreants from escalating tensions in both Karnataka and Maharashtra.

"Kannadigas and Marathis are living harmoniously. Why are you unnecessarily trying to disturb it? I am appealing to the people to stop inciting," Karnataka Law and Parliamentary Affairs Minister H K Patil told reporters.

He assured that the government would take all necessary steps to resolve the issue and warned of strict action against those causing disturbances.

State Social Welfare Minister H C Mahadevappa asked people from both sides to remember that they are all fellow Indians, emphasising the importance of unity amidst the border dispute.

Terming the development as "very unfortunate", he said, "We should never forget that we are all Indians."

He denounced the tendency to rake up the issued which is long settled.

The decades old dispute resurfaced on Friday when a bus driver and a conductor were beaten up for allegedly not speaking in Marathi at Marihal in Belagavi.

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