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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2 Kannadigas in Saudi Arabia offer to bear the cost of first charter flight from Dammam to Mangaluru

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May 26,2020

Mangaluru, May 26: Days after the government of India approved the use of chartered flights for the repatriation of Indians stranded across the world amidst covid-19 lockdown, two NRI entrepreneurs in Saudi Arabia have offer to bear the cost of repatriation if they get formal green signal to repatriate stranded Indians from Dammam to Mangaluru International Airport before June 5.

Althaf Ullal and Basheer Sagar, the two Kannadiga Directors of Al Khobar-based Saqco, have made this offer in a letter written to Karnataka Chief Minister BS Yediyurappa and Union Civil Aviation Minister Hardeep Singh Puri.

The duo have assured that their company will bear the cost of the first chartered flight from Dammam to Mangaluru if the government paves way for its operation by June 5.

It is learnt that many private airliners have come forward to operate chartered flight and are waiting for final clearance from the government. It will cost approximately Rs 45 lakh to hire chartered flight with 180 capacity from Dammam to Mangaluru.

Pregnant women, medical emergency cases, senior citizens on visit visas, those who lost jobs due to lockdown among other stranded Indians will be given priority in this flight, they said.

"Our company will completely bear this cost. Passengers only need to bear the cost of institutional quarantine after reaching Mangaluru," they have clarified.

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i am stuck in saudi arabia and waiting eagerly to reach karnataka as early as possible. I missed my sisters marriage this month 24th, and my marriage is on june 14th.... i have some health issue also... really want to go back as soon as possible. Please help me

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Earthquake tremors felt in Karnataka, Jharkhand today

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June 5,2020

Bengaluru, Jun 5: An earthquake of magnitude 4.0 on the Richter Scale jolted Karnataka on Friday morning while another with a magnitude of 4.7 was felt in Jharkhand.

The tremors were felt in Hampi (Karnataka) and Jamshedpur (Jharkhand), according to the National Center for Seismology (NCS).

According to NCS, the aftershocks were felt at 6:55 am in both the places today.

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Netizens hail Saudi university for sacking professor over hate-filled tweets against Muslims

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May 22,2020

Newsroom, May 22: Countless netizens including Indians have hailed the action taken by Jazan University of Kingdom of Saudi Arabia against a high-ranking Indian expatriate who had posted called Indian Muslims as radicals.

Social media platforms such as Twitter and Facebook flooded with appreciation after the University announced on Twitter that the professor, who had posted objectionable messsages, had been fired. The university, however, did not disclose the name of the professor.

On its Twitter account, Jazan University wrote, “Based on what was monitored by the university about the publication of a contracted faculty member for offensive posts and tweets, his registration has already been folded. #JazanUniversity affirms that it resolutely addresses any perverted or extremist ideas that affect the constants or violate the directions of good leadership.”

After the university’s announcement, many on Twitter posted screenshots of the communal tweets claiming that the professor is Neeraj Bedi and made it clear that the dismissed professor is an Indian.

Bedi has been working as full time Professor in Faculty of Public Health and Tropical Medicine in Jazan University for years.

In his Twitter account, which does not currently exist, he was praising PM Modi and spewing poison against Islam and holding Muslims responsible for the spread of Coronavirus. It is believed that the account was deleted after the protests became severe.

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