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Need greater importance to literature in newspapers: Jogi

July 2, 2012

Mangalore, July 2: Owing to the growing colour and layout craze, newspaper supplements are turning out to be 'distbins of words' said Jogi, popular columnist and Editor, Udayavani weekly supplement.

He was speaking at a programme organized by the Dakshina Kannada Working Journalists' Association at Press Club in Mangalore on Monday.

Lamenting that media establishments have gradually distanced literature from newspapers, Mr. Jogi said that Editorial and Op-Ed pages would once carry content of great literary value. “Today, Edit pages and Op-Ed pages are being wasted by featuring debates on trivial issues”, he observed.

Recalling his younger days, Mr. Jogi said that writer-journalists like P Lankesh had inspired him. Writers like Lankesh, P Sainath etc have contributed to literature as well as journalism, he said, adding that encouragement to literature is not being given in Kannada journalism today. “There is a need for Kannada literary figures to take initiatives and figure in the news world, the way likes of Chetan Bhagat make their presence felt in English media”, he said.

On a lighter note, Mr. Jogi said that earlier, newspapers would take people's problems to politicians but today they are bringing politicians' problems to people.

Vasanth Kumar Perla, Programme Executive, Akashavani, Mangalore, in his inaugural address said that journalists must not sacrifice credibility for competition. Visual media like television have a greater responsibility towards the society as they are more powerful in terms of communication compared to print and radio, he said.

P B Harish Rai, President, Dakshina Kannada Working Journalists' Association, welcomed. Ram Krishna Rao, President, Mangalore Press Club, proposed the vote of thanks.

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February 13,2020

Mangaluru, Feb 13: After pro-Kannada outfits called for a state-wide bandh today, the police are on high-alert to avoid any untoward incidents.

The dawn to dusk bandh was called demanding implementation of Sarojini Mahishi report which recommended certain percentage of jobs to Kannadigas in private & public sector companies.

There is no official holiday declared for schools and colleges. Besides, all government institutions and private establishments are open.

But, in some parts of Karnataka, autorickshaws and taxis, including Ola and Uber stayed off the roads.

Even though the bandh is unlikely to hit normal life in coastal Karnataka, stones were pelted on a Tirupati-Mangaluru bus in Farangipet.

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January 29,2020

Jan 29: Karnataka Tourism Minister, CT Ravi came up in support of BJP leader Anurag Thakur, and made a controversial statement in the process.

Ravi recently took to Twitter to express his views on Thakur facing probe for allegedly making provocative statements. In his tweet, Ravi said that "anti-nationals should get bullet not biryani".

"Those attacking Union MoS @ianuragthakur for his statement against traitors are the ones who - opposed death to terrorirts Ajmal Kasab and Yakub Memon, supported tukde tukde gang, spread lies against CAA. Anti-nationals should get bullet not biryani," Ravi tweeted.

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February 27,2020

Bengaluru, Feb 26: Karnataka Minister CT Ravi on Wednesday said that time is ripe to bring in Uniform Civil Code in the country as there was a demand for "equality".

"Everyone talks about equality. Those who desired inequality in the past are now seeking equality. The time is ripe to bring Uniform Civil Code," he said.

The Minister said that the Uniform Civil Code (UCC) has been a part of the party's agenda since the time when BJP was formed in 1980.

"We spoke about article 370, we have done it, on Ayodhya issue, the Supreme Court has given its verdict. As the time comes we will do it," he said.

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