New Year’s gift: Karnataka govt promotes 36 IPS officers

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January 1, 2018

Bengaluru, Jan 1: It is achche din for 36 IPS rank officers with the state government promoting them on the New Year's Eve. While 20 promoted IPS officers have been given new postings, 11 were transferred, in what is seen as a major reshuffle in the police department.

The government promoted four 1993-batch Inspector General of Police (IGP) rank officers to Additional Director General of Police (ADGP) rank. They include M.A. Saleem, now posted as ADGP, Crimes and Technical Services, Bengaluru with an additional charge of ADGP and Commissioner for Traffic and Road Safety, Bengaluru

K.S.R. Charan Reddy has been posted ADGP, Training, Bengaluru. He was IGP for Karnataka State Reserve Police, Bengaluru.

Additional Commissioner of Police Bengaluru (West Zone) Malini Krishnamoorthy has been posted as ADGP, Communication, Logistic and Modernisation, Bengaluru as Alok Mohan who was holding this charge earlier is posted as the ADGP, Anti-Corruption Bureau, Bengaluru.

Dr K. Ramachandra Rao has been posted as ADGP, Grievances & Human Rights, Bengaluru with an additional charge of ADGP, Directorate of Civil Rights Enforcement, Bengaluru. He was IGP, Northern Range, Belagavi.

IGP, Intelligence, Bijay Kumar Singh will take over as the Additional Commissioner of Police, Bengaluru, (West Zone). He will also be given the additional charge of the post of IGP, Special Investigation Team, which is currently probing the murder of noted journalist and activist Gauri Lankesh.

The IPS officer D Roopa who made headlines in 2017 by reporting irregularities in the Parappana Agrahara Central Prison when she was the DIG Prisons also received a promotion. She has been promoted to IGP rank and transferred and posted as IGP & Additional Commandant General, Home Guards & Ex-Officio Additional Director, Civil Defence, Bengaluru.

Similarly, Labhu Ram, Joint Director, Intelligence Bureau, Bengaluru, Devajyoti Ray and N Shivaprasad is also promoted to IGP rank and the latter has been posted as IGP, Ballari Range.

In addition, as many as six SPs received promoted to the rank of DIG, including Sandeep Patil, SP, Intelligence, Bengaluru who now has been posted as DIG, Karnataka State Reserve Police, Bengaluru.

Vijayapura SP Kuldeep Kumar Jain will replace him as SP of Intelligence, Bengaluru.

Other promoted officers include: Dr P.S. Harsha, posted as Commissioner, Department of Information and Public Relation, Bengaluru; Vikash Kumar, posted as Commissioner, Social Welfare Department, Bengaluru; Dr T.D. Pawar, posted as DIGP, Anti-Corruption Bureau, Bengaluru; Annigere Manjunath, posted as DIGP, Directorate if Civil Rights Enforcement, Bengaluru; Ravi Kumar Naik, posted as DIGP, Intelligence; Abhishek Goyal (will hold current post DCP Traffic (East), Bengaluru; Kaushlendra Kumar, Joint Deputy Director, New Delhi; Raman Gupta, Joint Director of Enforcement, Bengaluru; Dr B.R. Ravikanthe Gowda, SP, Belagavi; R Dileep; SN Siddaramappa, SP Internal Security Division, Bengaluru; R Ramesh, posted as Commandant, Home Guards & Civil Defence Academy, Bengaluru; Dr S.D. Sharanappa, DCP (South), Bengaluru; M.N. Anucheth, DCP (West), Bengaluru; Shantanu Sinha, SP, National Investigation Agency, New Delhi; Borase Bhushan, posted as SP, Anti-Corruption Bureau, Bengaluru; Abhinav Khare, SP Shivamogga; B Ramesh,

SP Ramanagara; Iada Martin Marbaniang, SP Yadgir; Ravi D Channannavar, SP Mysuru; Vartika Katiyar, posted as DCP, City Armed Police, City Armed Reserve, Headquarters, Bengaluru; Kona Vamsi Krishna, posted as Deputy Director, Karnataka Police Academy, Mysuru; Laxmi Nimbargi, posted as SP Udupi; Shiva Prakash Devaraju, posted as Assistant IGP, General, Headquarters, Bengaluru; BM Laxmi Prasad, posted as SP Vijayapura; Dr. Arun K, posted as SP, SIT, Harish Pandey, posted as Deputy Commandant, General, Home Guards, Ex-Officio Deputy Director, Civil Defence, Bengaluru and MS Mohammad Sujeetha, posted as SP, SIT.

Transferred officers are S Murugan - IGP, North Eastern Range, Kalburagi; K.V. Sharath Chandra - IGP, Eastern Range, Davangere; Soumesh Mukherjee - IGP, SIT; Nisha James - Commandant, India Reserve Battalion, Munirabad and Sanjeev M Patil - DCP, Administration, Bengaluru.

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Eid al-Fitr on Sunday, May 24 in coastal Karnataka

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May 22,2020

Mangaluru/Udupi, May 22: Two prominent Qadhis of coastal Karnataka today declared that Eid al-Fitr will be observed in the region on Sunday, May 24.

Twaqa Ahmed Musliyar, the Qadhi of Mangaluru and Ibrahim Musliyar Bekal, Qadhi of Udupi Samyukta Jamaat in their separate statements made this announcement.

The decision was taken as there was no news of new moon sighting in the coastal region today.

Ullal Qadhi Qurrathussadath Seyyid Fazal Koyamma Thangal Al Bukhari also announced that 24th May is first of Shawwal and Eid al Fithr will be celebrated on that day.

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Moon sighting for the start of the month of Ramazan, for end of fastings- Eidul Fitr, for the month of Hajj and Muharram:

The moon sighting is so easy. We the people of India and have Indian Standard Time all.over India.

When we can accept the moon sighting in Delhi and announcement from Delhi as it was during times of Radio and Doordarshan news, why can we not accept the sighting of moon in coastal region of Karnataka and in Kerala?

Let us bring about change for good.

Why is rest of Karnataka or India not joining for Eid with coastal region and kerala? At the time of Radio and Dorrdarshan only days, all of India used to wait for 8.00 pm news for updates of moon sighting. So why not accept the moon signing witnesses in Kerala or coastal region?

I request all Indians to accept the witnessing of Moon sighting in any area of India and start and end Fasting.

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Reopening of mosques in Turkey creates spectacular scenes

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May 30,2020

Istanbul: Mosques in Turkey reopened on Friday for mass prayers after more than two months as the government further eased strict restrictions to stop the spread of the new coronavirus.

Turkey has been shifting since May to a "new normal" by easing lockdown measures and opening shopping malls, barbershops and hair salons.

President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has said many other sites -- restaurants and cafes as well as libraries, parks and beaches -- will reopen from Monday.

Hundreds of worshippers wearing protective masks performed mass prayers outside Istanbul's historic Blue Mosque for the first time since mosques were shut down in March.

In the Ottoman-era Fatih mosque, worshippers prayed both inside and outside, with the municipality handing out disinfectants and disposable carpets.

"I have waited a lot for this, I have prayed a lot. I can say it's like a new birth, thanks to God, he has brought us back here," he said.

Another worshipper, Asum Tekif, 50, said: "It has a been a long time... we missed the mosques."

Turkey, a country of 83 million, has so far recorded 4,489 coronavirus-related deaths and 162,120 confirmed cases.

Prayers in Hagia Sophia

Muslim clerics on Friday recited prayers in the Hagia Sophia, the world famous Istanbul landmark which is now a museum after serving as a church and a mosque.

The prayers were held to celebrate the anniversary of the conquest of Constantinople, today's Istanbul, by the Ottomans in 1453.

"It is very important to commemorate the 567th anniversary of the conquest ... through prayers in the Hagia Sophia," said President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who attended the ceremony via videoconference.

The stunning edifice was first built as a church in the sixth century under the Byzantine Empire as the centrepiece of its capital Constantinople.

After the Ottoman conquest, it was converted into a mosque before being turned into a museum during the rule of Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, the founder of modern Turkey, in the 1930s.

But there have been hints about reconverting the Hagia Sophia into a mosque. Last year, Erdogan himself mooted the possibility of turning Hagia Sofia museum into a mosque.

Such calls have sparked anger among Christians and raised tensions with neighbouring Greece.

In 2015, a Muslim cleric recited the Koran in the Hagia Sophia for the first time in 85 years to mark the opening of an exhibition.

After Friday prayers at the Blue Mosque, a small group of Muslim worshippers shouted: "Let the chains break and let the Hagia Sophia open".

The group was later dispersed by the police who stopped them from protesting near Hagia Sophia that sits immediately opposite the Blue Mosque.

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Locals disrupt propaganda campaign on CAA, block BJP leaders

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January 6,2020

Hosapete, Jan 6: Tension prevailed at Chalavadikeri here on Monday as residents prevented BJP leaders and workers from entering the locality for propaganda on Citizenship (Amendment) Act and shouted slogans against them.

On receipt of the information about the arrival of the BJP leaders, the residents of the locality gathered at the entrance of the lane and displayed black flag besides shouting slogan-go back, go back.

The people told the BJP workers not enter their vicinity when the workers stated them that they will distribute pamphlets only.

The police who arrived at the spot are trying their best to pacify the irate locals. More number of people belonging to Muslim and Dalit communities are residing in the area.

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