Bengaluru: The VVPAT (voter verifiable paper audit trail), which will be connected with the EVM (electronic voting machine) is getting secured with a security code. Therefore, it is impossible to hack the voting machines," said Sanjeev Kumar.

Speaking at an EVM and VV Pat demonstration and workshop organized at a private hotel on Friday, he said, "There is a secrete number for the paper which gets print on the VV Pat. The authorities would register the code for every VVPAT.

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Shivamogga: A 17-year-old student from Kamakshi Street in the city, Prem Kumar, died of drowning while swimming in River Tunga in Pillangiri village of the taluk recently.

Prem, who was studying in II PUC at DVS College, was visiting the temple in Pillangiri with his friends and got into the river for a swim, when he drowned in the waters of the river.

The youngster’s body has been sent to the mortuary of the McGann Hospital in Shivamogga to conduct a post-mortem examination.

Shivamogga Rural Police visited the spot and held an inspection.