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First Haj flight from Mangaluru to Madinah on July 17

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July 13, 2019

Mangaluru, Jul 13: The stage is set for this year’s Haj flights under the aegis of Karnataka State Haj Committee with the first flight departing for Madinah from Mangaluru International Airport (MIA) on July 17. This year’s Haj flights also mark the decennial year of move by the Union government to start this facility for Muslims undertaking this pilgrimage from this coastal city and third year of direct flights to Madinah and Jeddah.

Then minister for external affairs S M Krishna had inaugurated the first Haj flight on October 25, 2009 and thus far, more than 6000 have undertaken the Haj pilgrimage from Mangaluru. For the current Haj season, 750 Muslims from Dakshina Kannada, Udupi, Chikkamagaluru, Hassan and Kodagu will undertake Haj and they will depart for Madinah on three days starting July 17 in five different flights scheduled to operate from MIA.

B M Mumtaz Ali, secretary of Mangaluru Haj Management Committee told reporters that hitherto Muslims from this part of the state embarking for Haj had to do so via Bengaluru. It was efforts of political leaders that saw then Union government consider Mangaluru as a Haj embarkation point, he said, adding the committee headed by Y Mohammad Kunhi, under the aegis of State Haj committee has overseen all preparations since then.

The committee has organised Haj camp for the 750 pilgrims at Ansar School at Bajpe where pre-embarkation procedure including luggage check-in, immigration check will start from July 15. Pilgrims coming from distant places will be provided boarding and lodging. While pilgrims from DK, Udupi district will leave on July 17 and 18, remaining pilgrims from DK and Udupi and those from Kodagu, Hassan and Chikkamagaluru will leave on July 19.

The pilgrims will return to Mangaluru in batches from August 31 to September 2 via Jeddah, he said adding these 750 pilgrims will be part of 8000-odd pilgrims from Karnataka to perform Haj. Across India, 2-lakh Muslims will undertake Haj and this includes 1.40-lakh under government quota and rest in private quota organised by Haj tour operators. In all, the 1.40-lakh pilgrims will be leaving for Haj from 21 embarkation points in India.

On the issue of Haj Ghar for the city, Ali said efforts are on at various levels to secure a suitable plot of land. There were issues with land first scouted at Kenjar and later at Malavoor, he said, adding committee has since zeroed in on a Waqf property at Adyar. B Z Zameer Ahmad Khan, minister for Wakf and Haj has assured to expedite clearance for the Haj Ghar once land is settled and Haj Committee has Rs 10 crore in its kitty for this purpose.

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February 12,2020

Mangaluru, Feb 12: As many as 54 house surgeons from Kasturba Medical College (KMC) staged a protest near the casualty of the Wenlock Hospital on Wednesday over over non-payment of monthly stipend.

House surgeons, who have studied MBBS under the government quota, have not received their stipend from last 11 months. They have to get a monthly stipend of Rs 20,000 during their one-year internship at the government hospital.

The protesting house surgeons alleged that their stipends have not been released despite Chief Minister BS Yediyurappa’s written order dated December 24.

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March 4,2020

Bidar, Mar 4: The Principal District and Sessions Court in Bidar, on Tuesday, granted conditional bail to five functionaries of Shaheen School management — Abdul Qadeer, Allauddin Pasha, Mehtab Sait, Bilal Inamdar and Abdul Khaleq — who moved anticipatory bail in a sedition case slapped against their school recently.

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Senior advocate B.T. Venkatesh from Bengaluru argued for the petitioners. Managoli Premavati Mallikarjuna granted bail on certain conditions, including execution of personal bond of ₹2 lakh each.

The sedition case was filed against the Shaheen School management for its children staging a play as part of their annual day celebrations on January 21, in which a character had allegedly delivered a dialogue against Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

While Nazbunnisa, the mother of the child who had allegedly delivered the dialogue in the play, and Fareeda Begum, the headmistress of the school, were arrested, they were subsequently released on bail last month.

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January 28,2020

Bengaluru, Jan 28: The state government is set to allow investors who bought farmland for industrial and other purposes to sell it off if they fail to use it within seven years. The new buyers, however, must utilise the land parcel for the same purpose for which it was allotted.

An amendment bill in this regard will be tabled during the joint session of the assembly, which begins on February 17.

Currently, investors remain tied to unused parcels. Law and parliamentary affairs minister JC Madhuswamy said the amendment to Section 109 of the Karnataka Land Reforms Act, which deals with the purchase of farmland for non-agricultural purposes, would remove hurdles for disposal of such plots. “To prevent misuse of land, the bill makes it mandatory for the new buyer to utilise it for the purpose for which the land was purchased by the first investor,” he said.

The government will also table a bill which seeks to regulate the affairs of religious and educational trusts. It will empower the government to intervene in the affairs of the trusts when irregularities come to light.

“Currently, the government has no role to play when allegations of irregularities and mismanagement crop up against trustees. The bill seeks to address this,” Madhuswamy said. He clarified the government didn’t want to interfere in trusts’ affairs. But some issues, he added, were of concern: trustees illegally selling off the trust property.

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