State prepared to host national youth fest in M'lore: CM

naeem@coastaldigest.com (CD Network)

December 3, 2011

Bangalore, December 3: Chief Minister DV Sadananda Gowda officially announced that Karnataka has prepared to host the 17th National Youth Festival in the new year.

The Youth Festival will be held in Mangalore from January 12 to January 16, he said.

The CM launched the emblem and a website created for the event at a function held in his home office "Krishna" in the presence of Union Corporate Affairs Minister M Veerappa Moily.

He said about Rs 12 crore would be spent on the festival to be attended by 5,000 participants across the country.

The festival will witness a plethora of cultural events and competitive events depicting the culture and heritage of the nation.

Moily said the state would provide Rs 10 crore and the Centre Rs two crore for the mega event. Karnataka has requested President Pratibha Patil to declare open the festival and was awaiting confirmation, official sources said.

About National Youth Festival:

The First National Youth Festival was held at Bhopal (Madhya Pradesh) in 1995. The venues where these Festivals were subsequently held are Kolkata (West Bengal) in 1996, Ahmedabad(Gujrat) in 1997 ,Chennai(Tamil Nadu) in 1998, Lucknow (Uttar Pradesh) in 1999, Gandhinagar (Gujarat) in 2000, Hissar (Haryana) in 2002 ,Thiruvananthapuram (Kerala) in 2003 ,Jamshedpur (Jharkhand) in 2004 ,Hyderabad (Andhra Pradesh) in 2005 ,Patna(Bihar) in 2006 , Pune (Maharashtra) in 2007 and Chennai (Tamil Nadu) in 2008, Bhubaneswar (Orissa) in 2009 and Udaipur (Rajasthan) in 2010.

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Udupi: Tragedy amidst wedding ceremony as child drowns in temple pond

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May 13,2025

Udupi, May 12: A tragic incident unfolded at a wedding in Nandikur, Udupi district, when a four-year-old boy, Vasudeva, drowned in a temple pond near the venue.

According to a police complaint filed by Satyanarayana, 38, a resident of Kurkalu village in Kaup, the child had accompanied his mother, Soumya, and siblings—Vaishnavi (10) and Vishnu Priya (1)—to attend a wedding at the Sri Durgaparameshwari Temple Hall in Nandikur.

At approximately 2:00 p.m. on Sunday, Soumya was feeding her infant daughter inside the hall while Vasudeva remained nearby. After tending to the baby, she stepped away briefly to wash her hands, during which time she noticed that Vasudeva was missing.

A frantic search ensued involving family members and others at the venue. About 15 minutes later, at around 2:15 p.m., Vasudeva was found unresponsive in the temple pond adjacent to the hall. Bystanders pulled him from the water and attempted resuscitation.

He was immediately rushed to a private hospital in Udupi, where doctors declared him dead on arrival. Despite this, the family sought further medical assistance at a hospital in Manipal, but physicians there also confirmed that he had passed away.

The Padubidri police have registered a case and are investigating the incident.

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