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Heggade, Justice Hegde, Kalam among 27 achievers honoured by Sitaram Jindal Foundation

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February 25, 2012

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New Delhi, February 25: Sitaram Jindal Foundation has honoured 27 Outstanding Selfless Workers, including Dr. A P J Abdul Kalam, Justice Santosh Hedge, Dharmsthla Veerendra Heggade and Anna Hazare, by bestowing Jindal Prize & S R Jindal Prize at a glittering Felicitation Ceremony held in the Capital, on Thursday.

Those honoured included individuals and Institutions who are beacons of selfless service to the society with prize money of Rs 7.30 Crores.

Sri Sri Ravishankar of Art of Living honoured the awardees. Tejendra Khanna, Lt. Governor of Delhi was the guest of honour who also gave away prizes to winners.

S R Jindal Prize (Honorary) was awarded to Lala Mange Ram Agarwal for his exceptional selfless service to society.

Five S R Jindal Prizes worth Rs 25 Lakhs each for Rural Development & Poverty Alleviation were bestowed on Anna Hazare; Sankara Eye Care Institutions India, Coimbatore; Utthan, Allahabad; Ramakrishna Vivekananda Mission, Barrackpore; and jointly to Dr G Gopal Reddy, Agriculture Scientist, Nalgonda, AP and Lok Biradari, Prakalp (Started by Baba Amte on 1973).

Dr Sitaram Jindal has set aside Rs 125 Crores to form a corpus of funds for creating a perpetual Prize, to honour the deserving, year after year. Such perpetual financial stability of Prize Schemes is uncommon except in rare cases like the Nobel Prize.

Nine S R Jindal Prizes for Crusade against Corruption worth Rs 10 lakhs each were given to Tehelka; Manish Sisodia, New Delhi; Dr. Rajinder K Singla, Chandigarh; Manjunath Shanmugam (Posthumous); Ramesh Verma, Hissar; Shehla Masood (Posthumous), Bhopal; jointly to Dr Ashok Khemka, IAS, Chandigarh & Sanjiv Chaturvedi, IFS, Haryana; jointly to Rajnikant Borele, Maharashtra & Ajay B Bose, Central Railway, Mumbai; and jointly to Pawan Kumar Chaudhary, Patna & Atul Kumar, Kolkata.

Three Gallantry Awards were also posthumously given to Tuka Ram Omble, Mohan Chand Sharma and Maj. Sandeep Unnikrishnan for their supreme sacrifice in the fight against terrorism, stated in a press release.

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March 9,2020

Bengaluru, Mar 9: The BJP government in Karnataka on Monday scrapped the Shaadi Bhagya Scheme that was launched by Congress government in the state in 2013.

Under the scheme, Rs 50,000 was given to Muslim brides for marriage expenses after they submitted their Aadhar and BPL cards.

While the previous coalition government had allocated Rs 60 crore budget for the scheme, the BJP government decided to discontinue the scheme. Congress called the move by the state government as "anti-minority".

"They have launched a scheme for the majority community. I welcome that. But why are you discontinuing one scheme? It is a small scheme where marginalized people get a little help from the government," Congress MLA Rizwan Arshad told reporters.

"He (Karnataka Chief Minister) has wilfully reduced the money allotted to all the schemes," he added.

BJP MLA Basavana Gowda Patil Yantal welcomed the decision of the Karnataka Government to scrap the scheme.

"The minority does not need appeasement because equal citizenship needs to apply to all in this country. I wholeheartedly welcome this move by the Karnataka Government," Yantal told reporters.

"Should we not give the majority people anything in India? India not giving anything to the majority, is that secular? We have already given them Pakistan," he said.

The MLAs from the minority community in the state have demanded a meeting with the Karnataka Chief Minister B S Yeddyurappa.

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February 4,2020

New Delhi: The Ministry of Home Affairs of Government of India today clarified to the Lok Sabha in a written reply that the so called “Love Jihad” is not defined under the extant laws and no such cases have been reported by any central agency.

It was ministry’s formal response to questions about whether the central government is aware of the observation of Kerala High Court that there is no case of Love Jihad in Kerala.

“The term ‘Love Jihad’ is not defined under the extant laws. No such case of ‘Love Jihad’ has been reported by any of the central agencies. However, two cases from Kerala involving interfaith marriages have been investigated by the NIA,” said the reply.

Communal and anti-Muslim political outfits backed by a section of media often use the term “Love Jihad” to accuse Muslims of marrying Hindu and Christian girls and then forcing them to change religion. Dr Hadiya’s conversion was also termed ‘love jihad’ by the BJP and media. The Supreme Court finally ruled that it wasn’t.

In January 2020, an influential Catholic Church in Kerala had said that “love jihad is a reality” and alleged that scores of women from Christian community from the southern state were being lured into the trap of Islamic State and used in terror activities.

The Viswa Hindu Parishad (VHP) had welcomed the Church statement and called for a united fight against ‘Love Jihad’ in Kerala Society.

The response comes weeks after the MHA, responding to an RTI query, said it has "no information" concerning the 'Tukde Tukde Gang' -- a term that has been used a number of times by PM Narendra Modi and Home Minister Amit Shah to attack opponents.

The RTI application was filed by activist Saket Gokhle on December 26 last year. In his RTI application, Saket Gokhle said Home Minister "Amit Shah addressed a public event in New Delhi, and in his address said, 'The Tukde Tukde Gang of Delhi needs to be taught a lesson and punished'." Gokhle's RTI asked for details of the 'Tukde Tukde Gang'.

The home ministry, in its reply to Saket Gokhle's RTI application, said, "Ministry of Home Affairs has no information concerning tukde-tukde gang."

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April 12,2020
Mangaluru, Apr 12: The spread of COVID-19 in the country has been contained through the prompt, effective and timely measures taken by the Centre, BJP Karnataka president and Dakshina Kannada MP Nalin Kumar Kateel said on Sunday.
 
The Centre brought in stringent regulations including the lockdown at the right time and ensured that the pandemic did not spread rapidly, he told reporters here.
 
Kateel inspected the railway coaches which have been converted into isolation wards for infected patients at the central railway station here.
 
He said 20 out of the 32 railway coaches re-designed into wards by Southern Railway's Palakkad division, will be stationed here.
 
The wards are equipped with necessary medical equipment and facilities for doctors and paramedical staff.
 
Kateel said Prime Minister Narendra Modi has shown how such difficult situations need to be handled.
 
The lockdown was announced in time so that coronavirus spread was checked and all the central departments carried out their works efficiently to monitor the situation, he said.
 
Mangaluru South MLA D Vedavyas Kamath was also present.

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