Secure Nithyananda, Centre tells Karnataka

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December 29, 2019

Bengaluru, Dec 28: The Centre has asked the Karnataka Government to secure with the help of the CBI or the Interpol the absconding godman Nithyananda involved in sexual scandals and facing complaints from parents of young girls in his ashrams.

The Godman recently fled the country following these complaints and has released a video claiming that he has bought an island near Ecuador and established a nation which he has named Kailasam.

Jhansi Rani from Tiruchi  and mother of a 24-year-old girl who died under mysterious circumstances in Nithyananda’s ashram in Bidadi in Karnataka in 2014 has received a copy of the Union Ministry’s letter to the Yediyurappa Government.

Disclosing the copy of the letter to local television channels, Jhansi Rani said her daughter died in the ashram in 2014 and the godman’s men told her that she died after a heart attack. She said that she got a re-postmortem examination done  and it showed her daughter had marks of injuries on her.

Jhansi Rani said that her daughter during a visit before her death gave her a pen drive which contained the sexual exploits of Nithyananda. Jhansi Rani alleged that she was threatened by his followers. But she represented to the Karnataka police and also impleaded herself in a spate of petitions filed in the Karnataka High Court, seeking a CBI enquiry.

She said she recently wrote to the Union Home Ministry to press the demand. The Ministry, which wrote to the State Government on her representation, has also sought status of cases pending against the godman in the high court.

Similar complaints have been made by parents of two sisters from after Gujarat who joined the godman’s ashram in Bidadi. .

The Ahmedabad Police on Saturday filed a status report in the Gujarat High Court on its investigation into the whereabouts of the godman following a habeas corpus petition filed by a former Bengaluru resident Janardhan Sharma who alleged his two daughters aged 22 and 18 were being held against their will in the Bidadi ashram.  The police failed to produce the girls in court.

Sharma said he and his wife Uma Maheshwari were not allowed to meet their daughters when they visited the godman’s ashram in Hirapur in Gujarat.

Sharma said their daughter joined the ashram in Bidadi and they were later brought to another ashram in Hirapur on the outskirts of Ahmedabad. He said her eldest daughter had accompanied Nithyananda in his visits abroad.

The Gujarat police talked to the girls. They said they had become sanyasins and they were not being held against their will. His younger daughter, however told police the Gujarat police that she had been brought up in the ashram for the past six years and she was now a major as she is 19.

When videos went viral that NIthyananda had bought an island near Trinadad and Tobago in the West Indies after denied asylum by Ecuador, the Indian Foreign Ministry clarified that his passport had expired and he had not renewed it. It did not explain how he managed to flee the country then. Reports said he fled the country via Nepal.

According to the website of Nithyananda, he has founded  a nation calling it Sri Kailasa in the island. It says Sri Kailasa is a “nation without borders created by dispossessed Hindus from around the world who lost the right to practice Hinduism authentically in their own countries”.

Nithyananda, a native of Tamil Nadu, fled the State after a video surfaced showing him in a compromising position with actress Ranjitha.

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AJITH KUMAR
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Monday, 30 Dec 2019

Bring him back to India ,punish him severly , disturbing the life of girls and parents. what kind of saadu he is.

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Bengaluru, Feb 17: Karnataka State Government have plans to establish three more ultra Mega Renewable Energy power parks, each of 2500 MW capacity, Karnataka Governor, Vajubhai Wala informed the joint legislative meeting, here on Monday.

Addressing a Joint Legislative meeting here, he said that the proposed Ultra Mega Renewable Energy parks would come up at Koppala, Bidar and Gadaga in the state.

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July 8,2020

The Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) has rationalised by up to 30 per cent the syllabus for classes 9 to 12 for the academic year 2020-21 to reduce course load on students amid the COVID-19 crisis, Union HRD Minister Ramesh Pokhriyal 'Nishank' announced on Tuesday.

The curriculum has been rationalised while retaining the core elements, the Human Resource Development said.

Among the chapters dropped after the rationalisation exercise are lessons on democracy and diversity, demonetisation, nationalism, secularism, India's relations with its neighbours and growth of local governments in India, among others.

"Looking at the extraordinary situation prevailing in the country and the world, CBSE was advised to revise the curriculum and reduce course load for the students of classes 9 to 12.

"To aid the decision, a few weeks back I also invited suggestions from all educationists on the reduction of syllabus for students and I am glad to share that we received more than 1.5K suggestions. Thank you, everyone, for the overwhelming response," Nishank tweeted.

"Considering the importance of learning achievement, it has been decided to rationalise syllabus up to 30 per cent by retaining the core concepts," he added.

The Union minister said the changes made in the syllabi have been finalised by the respective course committees with the approval of the curriculum committee and the Governing Body of the Board.

"The heads of schools and teachers have been advised by the board to ensure that the topics that have been reduced are also explained to the students to the extent required to connect different topics. However, the reduced syllabus will not be part of the topics for internal assessment and year-end board examination.

"Alternative academic calendar and inputs from the NCERT on transacting the curriculum using different strategies shall also be part of the teaching pedagogy in the affiliated schools," a senior official of the HRD ministry said.

For classes 1 to 8, the National Council of Education Research and Training (NCERT) has already notified an alternative calendar and learning outcomes.

According to the updated curriculum, among the chapters deleted from class 10 syllabus are-- democracy and diversity, gender, religion and caste, popular struggles and movement, challenges to democracy

For class 11, the deleted portions included chapters on federalism, citizenship, nationalism, secularism, growth of local governments in India.

Similarly, class 12 students will not be required to study chapters on India's relations with its neighbours, changing nature of India's economic development, social movements in India and demonetisation, among others.

Universities and schools across the country have been closed since March 16 when the central government announced a nationwide classroom shutdown as one of the measures to contain the COVID-19 outbreak.

A nationwide lockdown was announced on March 24, which came into effect the next day. While the government has eased several restrictions, schools and colleges continue to remain closed.

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March 28,2020

Bengaluru, Mar 28: Karnataka Pradesh Congress Committee (KPCC) chief DK Shivakumar on Saturday appealed to the authorities to arrange transport for migrant workers, stating that it is appalling to see their plight as they are walking hundreds of kilometres to their villages amid COVID-19 lockdown.
"Appalling to see the plight of poor migrant workers who are walking hundreds of kms to their villages. We cannot abandon our citizens, especially children, and put them at risk. Appealing to the authorities to arrange transport. Please take sufficient safety precautions as well," Shivakumar tweeted.
Hundreds of people, comprising mostly of migrant workers and their families, gathered at the Lal Kua in Uttar Pradesh from Delhi, Gurugram and other places, to take buses to their respective destinations amid the lockdown.
While the Prime Minister Narendra Modi had imposed a nationwide lockdown to prevent the spread of coronavirus, the Uttar Pradesh administration had decided to ply these buses to help thousands of migrant workers who were stuck in the national capital and had started returning on foot to their native places in Bihar, Uttar Pradesh, among others.

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