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Subrahmanya chalo against 'made snana' on Dec 18

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November 6, 2012

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Bangalore, November 6: The Karnataka Rajya Hindulida Vargagala Jagruta Vedike has threatened a mega Kukke Subrahmanya Chalo on December 18, Champa Shashti Day, if the government does not ban the made snana ritual at the Subrahmanya temple immediately.

Vedike general secretary A.H. Krishne Gowda told presspersons here on Monday that hundreds of progressive thinkers and swamis will participate in the Subrahmanya chalo programme. He said it is the duty of the government to educate people to shun such practices, and if it fails in doing its duty, the progressive thinkers will have to educate the people instead. In the meantime, the vedike plans to hold hunger protests at Mangalore, Mysore and Bangalore before Champa Shashti day to create awareness about archaic practices such as made snana and pankti bheda (serving food separately on caste-lines). The protest in Mangalore will be held on November 10 in front of the deputy commissioners' office. In Mysore, it will be held in front of the Mahatma Gandhi statue on November 20, and at Freedom Park on December 5 in Bangalore.

Mr. Gowda said the vedike had been fighting for a ban on made snana from 2010. The Puttur Assistant Commissioner had in November last year issued a circular banning the ritual. But, the ritual was allowed to be performed on Champa Shashti last year. Now attempts are being made to continue the ritual in a different form — serving food on plantain leaves, allowing cows to consume the food and then facilitating made snana by the people from lower 'classes', he alleged. Mr. Gowda urged all those opposing the ritual to lend support to the vedike by sending SMS to 9448342670.

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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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January 1,2020

Mangaluru, Jan 1: Karnataka Home Minister Basavaraj Bommai said here on Tuesday that the State government will think about making policy on giving compensation to the families of those who have died in police firing.

Speaking to newsmen here on Tuesday, he said that the government withholding compensation to the families of two persons who died in police firing in the city on December 19 after a protest against the Citizenship (Amendment) Act turned violent and even in 2006 when two persons had died in police firing at Mulky in Dakshina Kannada the then State government had not given any compensation to their families.

In the latest case, the First Information Report (FIR) has named the two persons who had died in the firing as the accused. After the incident, there were demands to provide compensation to the families of the victims.

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May 10,2020

Karwar: The number of Covid-19 patients in Uttara Kannada district has gone up to 39 with seven more persons from Bhatkal testing positive for the virus on Sunday.

These seven persons include five men and two women. Among them, the youngest is 15 years and the eldest is 60 years. Rest of the patients are 50, 21, 16, 42, and 31 years old, a health bulletin said. All the new seven cases are contacts of the eight persons who were found positive on Saturday.

Of the new cases, one is an auto-rickshaw driver who had reportedly transported one of the patients. Now the administration is collecting the details of the driver’s journeys and the persons who had travelled in his auto-rickshaw. It is said that some of these persons who were confirmed positive on Sunday had travelled to Udupi and moved around in Bhatkal town to buy medicine.

The pressure on the administration is increasing with new positive cases being detected in Bhatkal town every day. After the first 11 cases, there were no new cases for 20 days. However, since Friday, there is sudden spike in the number of new cases in Bhatkal town.

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