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  • Father kills his two children in Karnataka

    Father kills his two children in Karnataka

    Mandya (IANS) | In a shocking case, a man killed his two children with a hammer in Srirangapatna town of Karnataka’s Mandya district. The police gave this information on Thursday. The children were identified as four-year-old Adarsh and three-year-old Amulya. The accused Srikanth, a resident of Maralagala, is absconding. Police said a search operation has been launched to nab him.

    The accused had attacked the children with a hammer and also targeted his wife Lakshmi.

    The exact reason behind the crime is yet to be ascertained and police are trying to gather information from his wife. The incident happened in the early hours of Thursday.

    The accused is a resident of Jevargi in Kalaburagi district and works in a field at Virupaksha in Maralagala village. Srirangapatna Rural Police has registered a case and started investigation.

    –IANS

  • Central minister told Karnataka government, if you can’t give free rice, then leave power

    Central minister told Karnataka government, if you can’t give free rice, then leave power

    Chikmagalur (IANS) | Union Minister of State for Agriculture and Farmers Welfare Shobha Karandlaje has told the Congress government in Karnataka that it should either provide 10 kg of rice free of cost as promised during the elections or step down. Talking to reporters in Chikkamagaluru, Shobha Karandlaje on Wednesday said that they (Congress government) have to give a total of 15 kg free rice to the people. The central government already gives five kilograms of free rice.

    He said, Congress leaders made false promises only to win the elections. Chief Minister Siddaramaiah should withdraw his statements in this regard.

    She questioned, women are asked for certificates for bus passes. Do I need a certificate to prove that I am a woman?

    Fingers are pointed at the Prime Minister for free rice, funds, electricity and everything, he said. In such a situation, why have you (Congress) distributed guarantee cards to the people? Buy rice from farmers and distribute it among the people.

    The Karnataka government has attacked the central government for denying the sale of rice to the Food Corporation of India (FCI). Chief Minister Siddaramaiah had alleged that the BJP was stealing the poor man’s food and trying to sabotage the Anna Bhagya scheme under which 10 kg of free rice would be distributed to each family member of BPL card holders.

    A war of words has broken out between the BJP and the Congress on this issue. The Congress had staged a sit-in against the central government. The BJP also opposed it and some of its leaders were arrested and later released.

    –IANS

  • Karnataka ABVP leader arrested for posting obscene videos of girl students

    Karnataka ABVP leader arrested for posting obscene videos of girl students

    Shivamogga (IANS) | The Karnataka Police has arrested an Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP) functionary from Shivamogga district for posting obscene videos of college girl students on social media. The police said in a statement on Monday that the accused Prateek Gowda is the president of the Tirthahalli unit of the ABVP. Police said the video contained footage of him being intimate with several girl students of the college. He was arrested on Sunday and sent to judicial custody, police said.

    Members of the National Student Union of India (NSUI) have approached Superintendent of Police S Mithun Kumar over the circulation of the video and demanded action against the accused and other ABVP members.

    Police said the accused is accused of making nude photographs and videos of innocent college students and blackmailing them.

    ABVP members have also demanded the police to initiate action against the accused.

    The members also told the police that there were reports of harassment of girls by the accused using the organization’s name.

    –IANS

  • Poem on Savarkar, lesson on KB Hedgewar dropped: Changes in Karnataka syllabus sparks row

    Poem on Savarkar, lesson on KB Hedgewar dropped: Changes in Karnataka syllabus sparks row

    By ANI
    BENGALURU: In a revision to Kannada and Social Science subjects in Karnataka school textbooks, the state cabinet has dropped off a lesson on RSS founder KB Hedgewar and a poem on Hindutva ideologue VD Savarkar from the school syllabus.

    While a lesson on Hedgewar and a poem on Savarkar is out, a letter written by India’s first Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru has found its place in the social science textbook.

    This comes after the Congress government in Karnataka ordered 18 changes in Kananda and Social Science subjects for classes 6 to 10. According to the list of revisions released by Karnataka Textbook Society, the Congress government has dropped a lesson on RSS founder KB Hedgewar, ‘Who Should Be an Ideal Man’, and replaced it with a lesson titled ‘Story of Sukumara Swamy’ authored by Shivakotacharya in class 10 in the Kannada language.

    The recent textbook revision, especially the omission of Savarkar and Hedgewar from the Karnataka school textbook has led to a political row in the country.

    On Saturday, Union Road Transport and Highways Minister Nitin Gadkari criticised the Karnataka government’s move to revise school textbooks in the State and said that it is “unfortunate” that the chapters on Dr Hedgewar and Swatantra Veer Savarkar have been removed.

    He was addressing a gathering at the book launch ceremony on VD Savarkar. “It is unfortunate that the chapters on Dr Hedgewar and Swatantra Veer Savarkar have been removed from the school syllabus. There is nothing more painful than this,” said Gadkari on Saturday.

    Explaining the Karnataka government’s reasoning behind removing the right-wing ideologues from the state school syllabus, Congress spokesperson Gourav Vallabh said, “There are two different ideologies in this country. We believe students of India and Karnataka should study (BR) Ambedkar, Jawaharlal Nehru and Mahatma Gandhi’s ideologies rather than studying KB Hedgewar and Veer Savarkar’s ideologies. We do not believe in the ideology which claims Godse, the man who gunned down Mahatma Gandhi to be a freedom fighter.”

  • RSS founder text removed from textbooks: Karnataka education minister

    RSS founder text removed from textbooks: Karnataka education minister

    Bengaluru (IANS) | Karnataka’s Congress government on Thursday announced that a text on RSS founder Keshav Baliram Hedgewar has been removed from textbooks. The move by the Congress is likely to create a controversy as the BJP says it will not remain silent if the curriculum is changed.

    Speaking to reporters after the cabinet meeting, Education Minister Madhu Bangarappa said that all the changes made by the BJP government have been reversed.

    He says that this decision has been taken in the interest of the children. He said that he has also made changes in the Kannada textbooks for classes 6 to 10 and social science textbooks for classes 6 to 10.

    Bangarappa said the textbooks would reach the students in less than 10 days. The Education Minister was asked which lessons have been removed, to which he said that the lessons added by the BJP government have been removed. For example, the text of Hedgewar has been removed.

    He said that the BJP had repeated the same material in the syllabus. He manipulated. The syllabus which was there before the amendment by the BJP government will be retained.

    –IANS

  • As Surjewala’s presence in meeting creates stir, Karnataka CM Siddaramaiah says it was not official

    As Surjewala’s presence in meeting creates stir, Karnataka CM Siddaramaiah says it was not official

    Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah on Wednesday clarified that Congress national general secretary and state in-charge Randeep Singh Surjewala had not “officiated” any meeting of the government and city civic body officials, dismissing the claims made by the opposition BJP and the JD(S).

    Siddaramaiah’s reaction came as the BJP has sought an appointment with Governor Thaawarchand Gehlot to complain against Surjewala allegedly “officiating” a meeting with the senior bureaucrats of the state government and the Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP).

    “Surjewala did not officiate any meeting. He has only spoken to some MLAs. The Deputy Chief Minister (D K Shivakumar) was present there. It was a meeting that the DCM had attended,” Siddaramaiah told reporters.

    “You must understand that it is not an official meeting. The Bengaluru city MLAs were summoned for the Bengaluru civic body election where he (Surjewala) had also gone,” the Chief Minister said.

    The meeting was regarding issues prevailing in Bengaluru city. Contextually, there were discussions about the (civic body) elections, Siddaramaiah said. The DCM was going to inspect the Hebbal flyover in the city and Surjewala was also asked to attend it.

    Meanwhile, a BJP delegation comprising Members of Parliament from the city and the former Deputy Chief Minister R Ashoka has sought an appointment with the Governor.

    The BJP on Tuesday questioned the presence of Surjewala at the meeting chaired by Shivakumar with officials of the state government and BBMP at a private hotel.

    The opposition party shared a photograph of the meeting on its Twitter handle in which Surjewala is seen sitting next to Shivakumar where Karnataka government’s Additional Chief Secretary Rakesh Singh, BBMP Chief Commissioner Tushar Giri Nath, and other government officers were present.

    According to the BJP Karnataka unit, the meeting took place at a private five-star hotel.

    “What is the secret of #ATMSarkara?’ ATMSarkara’s clandestine meeting at Shangri-La Hotel, Bengaluru? What has Congress state in-charge Randeep Surjewala to do with the senior BBMP officials, who have no official relationship with either the state government or BBMP? Is this an 85 per cent deal-fixing meeting? Please answer @Siddaramaiah Chief Minister Siddaramaiah and @DKShivakumar D K Shivakumar,” the BJP tweeted.

    Former chief minister and JD(S) second-in-command H D Kumaraswamy too raised the issue in his tweet seeking to know whether there is a Siddaramaiah government or a “10 Janpath” government in the state.

  • Even after the defeat in the assembly elections, the BJP is divided in Karnataka

    Even after the defeat in the assembly elections, the BJP is divided in Karnataka

    Bengaluru (IANS) | The Karnataka BJP unit is still a divided house even after suffering a crushing defeat in the assembly elections and losing mass base across South India ahead of the 2024 Lok Sabha elections.

    The party leadership is struggling to promote unity and the spirit of fighting together in the cadre. The saffron party which once showed all signs of emerging as a force to be reckoned with and making inroads in South India, is falling badly behind.

    It has been almost a month since the Karnataka election results were declared, but the BJP is yet to appoint the leader of the opposition in the assembly and council. The statements of former Chief Minister and BJP MP from Bangalore North DV Sadananda Gowda and National General Secretary CT Ravi have proved to be another setback for the party.

    CT Ravi said that there is politics of accommodation within the BJP and the party lost in the assembly elections due to this reason. He said that we have lost power due to our mistakes. The leaders have compromised and because of these few people the party has lost power. I will not name the leaders, but the politics of accommodation is there and it resulted in the defeat of the party.

    Party sources said CT Ravi’s remarks were aimed at former CM BS Yediyurappa and his son BY Vijayendra. Former CM DV Sadananda Gowda’s statements further disappointed the party workers and showed that all is not well within the party. He claimed that 13 MPs have approached him for defamation and the party high command is silent on the matter.

    Sadananda Gowda said that an attempt is being made to defame 13 out of 25 MPs by calling them useless. A well-planned attempt has been made to demoralize senior MPs. He demanded that national leaders should intervene and clear the confusion at this stage.

    There is still one year left for the Lok Sabha elections. In such a situation, MPs are being targeted and they are being maligned. He alleged that I do not know who is behind this. Rumors are being spread that 13 MPs have not done any development work in their constituencies. Some MPs have fallen ill and will not be given tickets. Sadananda Gowda advises introspection on defeat.

    The BJP had recently held a meeting of its MLAs and the candidates who lost the elections. These candidates questioned the party’s decision to allot tickets to them at a very late stage and give a wrong signal to the people of the state. However, the party has postponed the scheduled core committee meeting. Karnataka in-charge Arun Singh has taken the opinion of various leaders and is looking at the party high command.

    On the other hand, Congress is taking major steps towards consolidating its support in the state. The party has filled the entire cabinet quota and has started preparations for the crucial Bengaluru civic polls and the upcoming Lok Sabha polls. The Congress is targeting and questioning the ideology of the BJP and the RSS. The high command is ensuring coordination between CM Siddaramaiah and Deputy CM DK Shivakumar. The pair of these two is looking dangerous for BJP.

    BJP sources said the party was showing no seriousness in trying to understand why the 54 sitting MLAs, including several ministers, lost the elections. The experiment of issuing tickets to 72 new faces has turned upside down. The deposits of more than 40 candidates have been forfeited in the elections. Leaders are bravely trying to put up a front by talking about vote percentage.

    –IANS

  • Southwest monsoon enters Karnataka

    Southwest monsoon enters Karnataka

    BENGALURU:  Days after the monsoon arrived in Kerala, the Southwest Monsoon made inroads into Karnataka through Karwar and Madikeri on June 9. According to the IMD, Kollur and Karkala in Udupi district received 7 cm rainfall and the monsoon is likely to advance from June 12 to other parts.

    According to officials, the Coastal Karnataka region, including Mangaluru in Dakshina Kannada district, received 5 cm rainfall, while Uttara Kannada district’s Kota and Shirali received 4 cm, while Ankola received 3 cm rainfall on June 9. Similarly, in North Interior Karnataka, Chincholi received 3 cm rainfall.

    In South Interior Karnataka, Kottigehara in Chikkamagaluru received 3 cm rainfall and Bengaluru received 1 cm rainfall on June 9. The official also said that on Saturday and Sunday, Bengaluru and its surrounding areas will witness cloudy skies, coupled with thunder and lightening. The IMD officials also stated that the rainfall for this season is expected to be normal.

    According to officials, for Bengaluru, from June 1 to September 30, 60 cm rainfall is expected, while for June alone, 11 cm rainfall is expected. With the arrival of the monsoon, civic agencies particularly in Bengaluru have prepared for heavy rain. BBMP officials have set up 63 control rooms across its sub-divisions. This apart, a massive storm water cleaning drive was taken up even before the Assembly election. The municipality has also taken up tree pruning.

  • Free bus ride for women in Karnataka from June 11

    Free bus ride for women in Karnataka from June 11

    By PTI
    BENGALURU:     Women in Karnataka can travel for free on government-run buses in the state from Sunday, with the administration rolling out the first of the five poll guarantees of the ruling Congress — “Shakti” scheme.

    This free travel service will benefit more than 41.8 lakh women passengers every day and would cost the state exchequer an estimated Rs 4,051.56 crore annually, officials said.

    The scheme is available for women, who are domiciled in Karnataka, for the journey within the State limits after 1 pm today.

    Chief Minister Siddaramaiah launched the scheme, which will provide free rides for women and girl students of the state in government buses, from the grand steps of Vidhana Soudha, the seat of Karnataka legislature and secretariat here.

    Deputy Chief Minister D K Shivakumar, and Transport Minister Ramalinga Reddy were among others present at the event, where the logo of the Shakti scheme was unveiled and Shakti smart cards were symbolically issued to five women.

    Women can apply for the Shakti Smart Card by registering on the Seva Sindhu government portal.

    The CM has directed all district in-charge ministers to launch the scheme in their respective districts and the legislators to launch it in their constituencies.

    The government noted that this scheme will reduce the travel expenses of working women from poor and lower middle class, and as the savings can be used for household expenses, the scheme has brought smiles to women’s faces.

    This is the first of the five guarantees announced by the Congress ahead of the assembly elections.

    The other four guarantees are — 200 units of free power to all households (Gruha Jyoti), Rs 2,000 monthly assistance to the woman head of every family (Gruha Lakshmi), 10 kg of rice free to every member of a BPL household (Anna Bhagya), Rs 3,000 every month for unemployed graduates and Rs 1,500 for unemployed diploma holders, both in the age group of 18-25 (YuvaNidhi).

    According to officials, all women, including girl students, without any discrimination on the basis of caste, religion caste, can avail the facility.

    Gender Minorities are also included in the scheme, they said.

    The free travel service can be availed in city transport, ordinary and express buses which accounts to 18,609 buses in all four state-owned Road Transport Corporations (KSRTC, BMTC, NWKRTC and KKRTC).

    Until smart cards are issued, free bus travel can be availed by producing a valid photo identity card issued by Government of India, Government of Karnataka or Government-owned offices, and getting a zero value ticket.N

  • Anti-communal wing to be constituted to check moral policing: Karnataka home minister

    Anti-communal wing to be constituted to check moral policing: Karnataka home minister

    To check incidents of moral policing being reported in the region, an anti-communal wing will be constituted in the Mangaluru commissionerate limits shortly, said Karnataka Home Minister Dr G Parameshwara.

    The Mangaluru Commissioner of Police will work out setting up the wing and deploy suitable officers to the same to put a check on moral policing. “There has been an increase in incidents of moral policing in the region. If it is not checked, it will bring a bad name to the police department and the district,” Parameshwara told media persons after holding a review meeting of the Western Range, comprising police officers from DK, Udupi, Uttara Kannada, Chikkamagalauru and Mangaluru Commissionerate limits.

    The anti-communal wing will be constituted in Mangaluru initially and will later be set up in other districts, where it is necessary to curb such incidents. Further, the police officers including the Commissioner of Police will visit schools, colleges, and universities to create awareness among students on the need for communal harmony in society. The police officials have been asked to conduct a periodical review of the cases pertaining to moral policing. Officials will be responsible to take cases to their logical end, he said.

    “Many have been raising concern over disruption of communal harmony in the district and lack of investment in the district in spite of having potential. As a chairperson of the Congress Manifesto Committee, I met heads of 20 to 25 institutions in the region, who had raised concerns over communal harmony in the region. As a KPCC President in the past, I had organised a Congress padayatra from Ullal to Udupi to highlight the communal tension created in the coastal belt. I have given instructions to the police to take action against those who disrupt communal harmony,” said the state home minister.