HD Kumaraswamy slams ED for summoning Shivakumar on Ganesh Chaturthi

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September 1, 2019

Bengaluru, Sep 1: Former Karnataka chief minister HD Kumaraswamy today slammed the Enforcement Directorate (ED) for ''refusing'' to allow a plea by senior Congress leader DK Shivakumar for exempting him from appearance before it on Monday in view of Ganesha Chaturthi festival.

Kumaraswamy termed as "vindictive attitude" the ED's action in summoning Shivakumar to appear before it on a festival day. Shivakumar, a former Karnataka Minister, had appeared before the ED in New Delhi on Saturday for the second straight day in the money laundering case filed against him and others.

According to him, the ED has asked him to appear again on Monday.

Shivakumar was a Minister in the Kumaraswamy lead Congress-JD(S) coalition government.

After a day-long questioning on Saturday, Shivakumar had said ED issued summons seeking his appearance again on Monday, rejecting his request for relaxation as it was a festival day.

Speaking to reporters in Delhi on Saturday night, he had said that according to his family traditions, they offer prayers to ancestors like on the day of the festival.

"We requested stating that I have to offer my respect to elders of the family on the day of the festival. They said no and have issued me summons to appear at 11 am (on Monday) I have happily accepted it, he had said.

On Friday, the investigating officer of the case had grilled Shivakumar for over 4 hours and recorded his statement under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA).

The ED had asked him to appear for questioning after the Karnataka High Court dismissed his plea challenging earlier summons.

Karnataka Congress on Friday had defended Shivakumar and accused BJP lead central government of "misusing" investigating agencies "to take revenge" against him.

Shivakumar and Congress have indicated that his "instrumental role" in ensuring safe stay of Gujarat Congress MLAs in a Karnataka resort during the Rajya Sabha polls in 2017, amid allegations that the BJP was trying to poach them, was the reason for the I-T searches and subsequent ED action against him.

The ED had in September last year registered the money laundering case against Shivakumar, Haumanthaiah, an employee at Karnataka Bhavan in New Delhi, and others.

It was based on a charge sheet (prosecution complaint) filed by the Income-Tax Department against Shivakumar last year before a special court in Bengaluru on charges of alleged tax evasion and hawala transactions worth crores.

The I-T department has accused Shivakumar and his associate SK Sharma of transporting huge amount of unaccounted cash on a regular basis through ''hawala'' channels with help of three other accused.

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We're 80 per cent, you're 18; don't oppose CAA: Karnataka BJP MLA spews venom

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January 4,2020

Bellary, Jan 4: A BJP MLA has apparently threatened 'minority' Muslims against participating in anti-CAA protests, saying that opposing the new Citizenship Act will not be good for them and they will have to face serious repercussions.

"It's just a caution for those who are protesting against the CAA (Citizenship Amendment Act). We are 80 per cent and you (Muslims) are 18 per cent. Imagine what will happen if we take charge," MLA Somashekar Reddy told a gathering here on Friday.

"Beware of the majority when you live in this country. This is our country. If you want to live here, you will have to, like the Australian Prime Minister said, follow the country's traditions," he added.

He said: "So, I warn you that CAA and NRC are made by Modi and Amith Shah. If you will go against these acts, it won't be good."

Continuing to spew venom, the MLA further said, "If you wish, you can go to Pakistan. We don't have any issues. Intentionally, we would not send you."

He said that the community should live in harmony with Hindus. "If you will act as enemies, we should also react like enemies," he said.

Earlier, Bengaluru BJP MP Tejaswi Surya reportedly called CAA opposers as "puncturewalas".

The nation has been witnessing massive protests against the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) and the National Register of Citizens (NRC). But Prime Minister Narendra Modi has specifically stated that the NRC was never discussed.

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Reddy,

This is not your father's country nor any other's father's country.

Eh desh kisika baap ka naheen hai.

All have sacrificed to liberate this nation.

Your Gundagiri will not succeed. See soon the result.

To goto Pakistan, we have choice to go or not. But you don't have choice.

Your brain also black, we don't what about the color of your heart.

Jai Bharath, Jai all countries

in forest DOg is more in number.. that does not mean LION is not king.

Lion is lion and dog is dog...here number does not count

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Tourism takes a hit in coffee land Kodagu

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February 23,2020

Madikeri, Feb 23: Back-to-back floods and landslides in the last two years, has led to a fall in the number of tourists coming to the coffee-growing region of Kodagu, forcing the district administration to intervene and take confidence-building measures, telling tourists that Kodagu was safe to visit.

According to the statistics of the Karnataka State Tourism Department, Kodagu recorded a moderately good number of tourists in 2018 and 2019, the years that the district witnessed devastating floods and landslides.

The Department’s statistics reveal that 17 lakh tourists visited Kodagu in 2018 and 18 lakh in 2019. This means the flood-ravaged years did attract tourists contrary to what the stakeholders had claimed.

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Businessman who returned to Kasaragod through Talapady border dies of covid-19

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July 8,2020

Kasaragod, Jul 8: A 48-year-old man, who died on Tuesday, has tested positive for COVID-19 on Wednesday.

A native of nearby Mogral Puthur in Kasaragod district, Abdul Rahmn was running a business in Karnataka’s Hubli since long time.

He had recently returned to his hometown from Karnataka through Talapady border on the outskirts of Mangaluru.

Sources said, despite the man having acute fever, the authorities at the Talapady border not only took any action including informing the concerned, but allowed him to cross over the border in a vehicle.

He was rushed to Kasargod General Hospital soon after returning. Those who had accompanied him from Karnataka to Kerala are now under ouarantine.

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