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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June 19,2020

Bengaluru, Jun 19: COVID-19 cases in Karnataka has breached the 8,000 mark, as the state on Friday reported 337 new cases and ten related fatalities, taking the total number of infections to 8,281 and death toll to 124.

Also, total discharges in the state breached 5,000 mark, with 230 patients getting discharged in a day after recovery.

As of June 19 evening, cumulatively 8,281 COVID-19 positive cases have been confirmed in the state, which includes 124 deaths and 5,210 discharges, the health department said in its bulletin.

It said out of 2,943 active cases, 2,865 patients are in isolation at designated hospitals and are stable, while 78 are in ICU.

The ten dead include- seven from Bengaluru urban, two from Bidar and one from Vijayapura.

Out of the 337 new cases, 93 are returnees from other states, majority of them from neighboring Maharashtra,while 11 are those who returned from other countries.

The remaining cases include contacts of patients earlier tested positive, those with history of SARI and ILI, among others.

Among the districts where the new cases were reported, Bengaluru accounted for 138 cases, followed by Kalaburagi 52, Ballari 37, Hassan 18, Dakshina Kannada 13, Davangere 12, Udupi 11; Bidar 10, six each from Mysuru and Koppal, four each from Yadgir, Kolar and Bengaluru rural, three each from Mandya, Dharwad, Chikkaballapura, Bagalkote and Ramanagara, two each from Tumakuru and Chikkamagaluru, and one each from Belagavi, Uttara Kannada and Shivamogga.

Kalaburagi district tops the list of positive cases, with 1,126 infections, followed by Udupi 1,050 and Bengaluru urban 982.

Among discharges Udupi tops the list with 944 discharges, followed by Kalaburagi 646 and Yadgir 477.

A total of 4,84,060 samples were tested so far, out of which 10,553 were tested on Thursday alone.

According to the bulletin,4,64,338 samples have been reported as negative, and out of them 9,862 were reported negative today.

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April 16,2020

Bengaluru, Apr 16: In order to bring uniform act for all universities in the state under the Karnataka University Act 2017, the state government formed a committee in this connection.

As per the instruction of deputy chief minister Dr C N Ashwath Narayan, higher education department has issued an order to form a committee under the chairmanship of R Vasudeva Athre.

The other members are former Bengaluru university Vice-Chancellor Prof B Thimmegoda, IIT Bengaluru director Prof Sadagopan, Srusti institute of arts and design technology Geetha Narayan Srusti, centre of educational and social studies president Dr M K Sridhat and state higher education parishad Executive Director Dr M S Kori, co-member of the committee.

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Media Release
July 10,2020

Mangaluru, Jul 10: The new team of office bearers of Mangalore Toastmasters Club for the year 2020-21 was installed in an online ceremony themed “Unlockdownable MTM” on 04th July, 2020. The new team will be led by Shraddha S Pai as President and her team consisting of Dr. Sapna Ramaraj as Vice President-Education, Ranjani Vittaldas as Vice President-Membership, Fiona Pinto as Vice President-Public Relations, Aashitha Shetty as Treasurer, Chandrashekar Palekar as Secretary and Oliver Lobo as Sergeant-at-arms. Dr. Ananth Prabhu, motivational speaker and cyber law investigator was the chief guest for the occasion.

In his speech, Dr. Ananth Prabhu emphasized the necessity for a paradigm shift towards cyber security with the rampant increase in digitization. He mentioned three out of fifteen skills that are absolutely necessary for anyone to be successful - how to impress people, independent living and surviving skills and how to bounce back when you fall. The remaining 15 can be found detailed in his book - The Samurai who sold his Suzuki which he presented to the outgoing and incoming Presidents.

Aashitha Shetty was the anchor for the program. Chandrashekar Palekar rendered the invocation and Benzita Ferrao welcomed the gathering. Outgoing President Kavitha Kamath thanked her entire team, mentors and the club members for their support during her tenure. Outgoing Vice President-Education Mareena Seema presented the Toastmaster of the year award to Distinguished Toastmaster M. N. Pai. Jyothi Hebbar presented an elaborate Secretary’s report highlighting the club’s happenings, events and achievements during the past year 2019-20.

Sunitha Periera introduced the 11 new members of the club who were then inducted by Division F Director Molly Chaudhuri. The Oath-taking of the new office bearers was presided over by Area F3 Director Sapna Shenoy. In her acceptance speech, Shraddha S Pai thanked the club members for putting their confidence in her and electing her to the new position. She spoke of her sense of debt and duty to those who held the office before her and promised to do her best in meeting the challenges in the coming year.

17 Representatives and leaders from different clubs of Division F including Club Growth Director Savitha Salian, Division Director Molly Chaudhuri and veteran toastmasters Malini Hebbar and Phyllis D’Costa felicitated the outgoing and incoming office bearers. Isha S Pai, daughter of newly sworn-in President Shraddha S Pai and Mrs. Vijaya Kudva, mother of outgoing President Kavitha Kamath also felicitated the new team. The vote of thanks was proposed by Princita Ferrao. Technical support was handled by Praveen M.N. and Yvonil D’Souza.

Mangalore Toastmasters club is built on 17 glorious years of support and encouragement of a healthy mix of veteran as well as rookie toastmasters. Bagging 93 educational awards, the club has placed 11th worldwide in the past year, upholding Toastmasters International’s core values of integrity, dedication to excellence, service to the member and respect for the individual.

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