Coastal Karnataka readies for Ganesh Chaturthi revelry

August 31, 2011

Mangalore, August 31: With only a few hours to go for the arrival of Ganesha, in the Hindu households, the preparations for the annual Ganesh Chaturthi, also known as 'Vinayak Chaturthi' or 'Vinayaka Chavthi festival, have reached their peak.

Although Ganesh Chaturthi festival commences on the fourth day of the Hindu month of Bhadrapada, it begins a day earlier with married woman worshipping Gauri or Parvati, the mother of Ganesha.

A walk round the city revealed market thronged by festival shoppers, buying various festival linked items from pulses and cereals to vegetables, fruits and sugarcanes, to decorative items and fireworks.

Despite soaring prices of essential commodities and various difficulties arising in the day-to-day life, the devotees are seen to be eagerly waiting for the arrival of the deity.

Setting a joyous and celebration mood everywhere, the Ganapathi idol makers at some of the places in the city like Car Street and Mannagudda too are carrying out their task of Ganesha idol preparation in a full swing.

The idols of Ganesha in various avatars line up on the main streets well ahead of the Ganesh Chaturthi, enabling the buyers to choose according to their wish.

Prabhakar Rao from Mannagudda who belongs to the famous idol making family of Late Mohan Rao said that he has received hundreds of orders for Ganesh idol preparation this year. “It is for the 74th year that our family is preparing Ganapathi idols. We design idols for Sanghaniketan, NMPT, Horticulture Department, KMF and MCF among others. The whole family is involved in this idol making process since two months and we do it with devotion, keeping aside the profit motive,” says Prabhakar Rao.

Special elaborate meals are prepared on the occasion, along with traditional sweetmeats like payasam, obbattu, kadubu, sweetened milk of coconut and so on.

Music also forms an integral part of the celebrations with aartis or songs of praise of the deity sung by the devotees during the worship. Bhaktigeetas or devotional songs, too are sung before Ganesha, with the accompaniment of musical instruments.

Sarvajanik or community Ganeshotsavas currently is working round the clock to present the respective Ganeshotsava pandals, in the most impressive way.

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Bengaluru,  Aug 1: As many as 5,172 new COVID-19 cases and 98 deaths were reported in Karnataka on Saturday, taking the state's count of coronavirus cases to 1,29,287.

The active cases in the state now stand at 73,219 while 53,648 people have been discharged.

"5,172 new COVID-19 cases and 98 deaths reported in Karnataka in the last 24 hours, taking total cases to 1,29,287 including 53,648 discharges and 2,412 deaths. The number of active cases stands at 73,219," said State Health Department.

So far, a total of 2,412 people have died in the state.

India, on Saturday, reported 57,117 new COVID-19 cases, taking the country's coronavirus tally to 16,95,988, said the Union Health Ministry. 

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February 21,2020

Mangaluru, Feb 21: Police officials including the Mangaluru city Commissioner of Police P S Harsha would be summoned to appear before the panel conducting a magisterial probe into December 19, 2019 firing on anti-CAA protesters in the city which left two people dead.

Notices would be served on 176 police officers and staff to appear for hearing, Udupi deputy commissioner G Jagadeesha, conducting the magisterial probe into the incident said here on Thursday.

He told reporters that officials, including the city police commissioner Harsha, would be summoned to depose on the violence which led to police firing that killed two people.

Mangaluru (North) Assistant Commissioner K U Belliappa, who is the nodal officer for the police department, has given a list of 176 policemen who are ready to adduce evidence in the hearing.

The police officers would be summoned in phases.

The next hearing is on February 25.

He said so far, 203 members of the public have deposed before him on the incident.

Former city Mayor K Ashraf, who is under treatment in hospital, has also provided a written statement.

The remaining members of the public can provide evidence during next hearings, he said.

On December 19, two people were killed in police firing as protests against the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) turned violent here.

The protesters had attempted to besiege the Mangaluru north police station and tried to attack police personnel, following which force was used to disperse them, police had said.

Two people received bullet injuries in the firing and they later succumbed at a hospital, the police had said.

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February 19,2020

Bengaluru, Feb 19: Congress MLA UT Khader on Wednesday slammed the Central government over the enactment of the Citizenship (Amendment) Act and said it violates the Constitution.

"The new citizenship amendment bill is unconstitutional. The citizenship cannot be given on cast and creed basis. Because of these things we are fighting against it," he said while speaking to media in Bengaluru.

Opposition along with several non-BJP state governments, including Madhya Pradesh, West Bengal, Kerala, Punjab and Rajasthan have refused to implement the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) and the proposed NRC in their respective states.

The CAA grants citizenship to Hindu, Sikh, Jain, Parsi, Buddhist and Christian refugees from Pakistan, Afghanistan and Bangladesh, who came to India on or before December 31, 2014.

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