List of Congress candidates for LS polls in Karnataka after another survey: DK Shivakumar
Bengaluru: Karnataka Deputy Chief Minister D K Shivakumar indicated on Wednesday that the party would finalise candidates for the Lok Sabha elections in the state after another round of survey on the prospects of potential nominees.
Shivakumar, who is also the Congress' state unit president, said he had a meeting with Chief Minister Siddaramaiah and AICC general secretary and the party's Karnataka in-charge Randeep Singh Surjewala among others, here.
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''Today we had a discussion on the survey reports submitted by our district secretaries and party workers. We will ask them to do another round of survey. Then we will take a decision,'' he said.
To a question, Shivakumar said: ''The list has not been finalised. The next meeting will take place in New Delhi.''
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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.
