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Gita Abhiyan is an attempt to create a future vote bank for saffron party'

July 14, 2011
Udupi, July 14: Demanding the immediate withdrawal of Bhagavad Gita Abhiyan in schools, the district unit of Karnataka Komu Souharda Vedike on Thursday staged a demonstration in front of the office of the Deputy Commissioner, here.

Addressing the gathering Dalith leader Jayan Malpe accused the government of trying to disturb the communal harmony in the state.

He accused the BJP led state government of trying to create a future vote bank for the saffron party through the Bhagavad Gita Abhiyan in schools.

Speaking on the occasion noted critic G Rajshekhar said that BJP government in the state is acting as the representative of one particular community, by implementing its saffron agenda through the Bhagavad Gita Abhiyan in school. “It is a blunder and it cannot be pardoned,” he added.

He said, “Government or any of the institutions which were benefitted by the government grants cannot preach any particular religion. But here government is implementing the agenda drafted by the Sangh Pariwar''.

Agitators submitted a memorandum to the Deputy Commissioner. In the memorandum they also demanded the government to stop the Bhagavad Gita Abhiyan with immediate effect and withdraw the cases filed against two of the SFI activists in Kolar, for protesting against the Abhiyaan.

Prof Phaniraj and Dinkar S Bengre of Komu Souharda Vedike, Luis Lobo of Catholic Organisations International Forum, Gerald Pinto of Catholic Sabha, Luis Almeida and Gerald Pinto of Catholic Sabha, Akbar Ali of Jamathe Islami Hind , Hussain Kodibengre, Cyril Mathias of District Minority Forum, Khasim Barkur of Muslim Okkuta, Neri Carnelio of Bharathiya Crhirta Okkuta and others participated in the protest.

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June 11,2020

Bengaluru, Jun 11: Within hours after claiming that it has decided to prohibit schools from schools from conducting online classes till Class 7, the Karnataka government has taken a U-turn and said that currently than ban is only till Class 5.

“Karnataka Govt has decided to stop all online classes for LKG, UKG & classes up to 5th std. To extend this up to 7th std is only a suggestion from few cabinet ministers as expressed in an informal discussion and NOT a decision,” tweeted Prime and Secondary Minister Suresh Kumar.

Law Minister J C Madhuswamy earlier today had stated that the decision to ban online classes till 7th standard was taken by the government.  "All of us were of the opinion that there were challenges faced by students studying in rural areas. Hence, we urged the government to extend the ban on online classes till 7 standard," he said

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June 16,2020

Udupi, Jun 16: A young software engineer died on board a bus bound for Udupi’s Kundapura from Bengaluru due to suspected cardiac arrest this morning.

The deceased has been identified as Chaitanya (25), son of Vishnu Murthy, a resident of Kumbri in Koteshwar in Kundapura taluk. He was working for a software firm Bengaluru.

Chaitanya had boarded a ‘Durgamba’ bus from Bengaluru at 9 pm on June 15. At around 6.30 am on June 16, he called his father and informed that the bus had reached Barkur.

When his father called Chaitanya again at around 7.30 am, the bus driver answered the call and told him that his son had fallen ill and been taken to Vinaya hospital in Kundapur.

Vishnu Murthy rushed to the hospital, but was informed by the doctors that Chaitanya was declared brought dead.

A case has been registered at Kundapura police station. Even though it is suspected that he died of cardiac arrest, the exact cause will be known only after the post-mortem.

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June 25,2020

Bengaluru, Jun 25: A total of 442 new cases of COVID-19 were reported in Karnataka on Thursday taking the total count of cases in the state to 10,560.

According to the State Health Department, there are 3,716 active cases and 6,670 patients have been discharged after treatment. Six more deaths have been reported in the last 24 hours, taking the death toll to 170.

India's COVID-19 count reached 4,73,105 on Thursday with the highest single-day spike of 16,922 cases in the last 24 hours.

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