Security tightened ahead of Datta Jayanti, Eid-Milad; prohibitory orders clamped

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November 29, 2017

Chikkamagaluru, Nov 29: The district police have made elaborate security arrangements in the district in view of Datta Jayanti and Eid-Milad this weekend. Prohibitory orders have been issued by the district administration with regard to carrying weapons and destructive material for three days from December 1.

More than 2,000 police personnel have been assigned to avoid any untoward incident during those days.Vishwa Hindu Parishad, BJP, and Bajrang Dal are holding three-day Datta Jayanti from December 1.

On the first day, Sankeertana Yatre will be held in the city. The district administration, after consultation meetings with leaders of respective communities, has scheduled the procession in view of Id-Milad between 8 a.m. and 12.30 p.m. on December 2. Shobha Yatra of Hindutva organisations will be held later in the day at 3 p.m.

On the third day, devotees will be visiting Bababudangiri Hills for the Datta Jayanti programme.

According to a press release issued by Superintendent of Police K. Annamalai, three additional SPs, 10 DySPs, 30 Police Inspectors, 134 PSIs, 227 ASIs, and other 2,000 police personnel would be deployed. Besides that 20 platoons of DAR and 16 platoons of KSRP will be called in.

The police will open check-posts at 24 places in the district. Sale of liquor will be banned between the midnight of November 30 and midnight of December 3. Movement of vehicles on M.G. Road, Azad Park Road, and K.M. Road will be restricted between 7 a.m. and 7 p.m. on December 2 in view of processions in the city. CCTV cameras have been installed at 21 locations in Bababudangiri, 10 places in Chikkamagaluru city, besides other sensitive places in the district.

Police have booked cases against 1,415 people, who had history of being involved in incidents of violence and causing loss to public property under relevant sections of the Criminal Procedure Code and taken bonds worth ₹ 1 lakh, ₹ 5 lakh, and ₹ 10 lakh. Among them 28 are from Dakshina Kannada district, who had attempted to breach peace during Datta Jayanti last year, the release added.

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shaji
 - 
Wednesday, 29 Nov 2017

Life of common man has become worst ever since anti social bjp is ruling

Hari
 - 
Wednesday, 29 Nov 2017

Modi rule made situation worst. Under UPA this much communal issues was not here. Now for film, food, celebration everything restrictions

Ibrahim
 - 
Wednesday, 29 Nov 2017

As a precaution, should arrest notorious leaders and workers.

Ganesh
 - 
Wednesday, 29 Nov 2017

Because of saffrons important days cant go out freely. Everytime prohibitory orders

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July 21,2020

Bengaluru, Jul 21: Students who are Covid-19 positive but are asymptomatic will be allowed to write the Common Entrance Test (CET) scheduled on July 30 and 31 for entrance into professional courses in Karnataka.

According to the Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) issued by the Department of Health and Family Welfare for CET, space should be allotted for students who have tested positive. Such students will have to be transported to and from the exam centre in an ambulance.

According to the SOP issued yesterday, candidates with COVID-19 “shall provide a risk consent certificate for taking up the exam.” The SOP also says “they shall inform about their status to the authorities concerned in advance to make the necessary arrangements.”

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July 5,2020

Dubai, Jul 5: Three Indians, who were repatriated on a chartered flight from the UAE on Friday, have been held in the state of Rajasthan after officials seized gold worth Dh2.2million from them, the government announced on Saturday.

They are likely to be placed under arrest along with 11 others, who were repatriated from Saudi Arabia, from whom gold worth Dh5.5million was seized, a statement from the government tweeted by Press Information Bureau in Rajasthan said.

The gold bars were hidden in emergency lamps, photos attached to the tweets showed.

The 14 passengers had arrived at the Jaipur International Airport by two chartered flights.

They were intercepted by the Customs team at the airport and 31.9kg of gold valued at Rs156,759,820 (Dh7.7million) concealed in the baggage was recovered from these passengers.

Three passengers arrived from Ras Al Khaimah by Spice Jet Flight SG9055 and 12 gold bars/bricks weighing 9.3kg valued at Rs.45,761,100 (Dh2.2million) were recovered from them, the statement said.

The Indian Consulate in Dubai confirmed to Gulf News that the flight was chartered by a private company for repatriating its employees.

It is suspected that the passengers were used as carriers to smuggle gold.

The other 11 accused had arrived from Riyadh and 22.65kg of gold bars, predominantly with Suisse markings, valued at Rs110,998,720 (Dh5.5million) were recovered from them.

“The said recovered gold bars have been seized under Section 110 of the Customs Act, 1962. The said passengers are being interrogated and are likely to be placed under arrest in terms of section 104 of the Customs Act, 1962,” the statement added.

Indian media had earlier reported similar cases in which stranded Indians were apparently lured to be carriers for smuggling gold on repatriation flights from various countries.

A spike in gold smuggling attempts using Indians getting repatriated after losing jobs was also reported from the Indian state of Kerala.

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July 28,2020

Bengaluru, Jul 28: After the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) reduced the syllabi for Classes 9 to 12 due to COVID-19 pandemic, the Karnataka government has followed the suit. The Department of Public Instruction has omitted the chapters on legendary south Indian rulers Hyder Ali and Tipu Sultan from the textbooks of Class 7 in their attempt to reduce syllabus for state board schools by 30 per cent. 

The department, however, has decided to retain similar chapters on Tipu Sultan in 6th and 10th Classes, though the syllabus in text books for all classes from 1 to 10th has been trimmed. 

The trimmed textbooks uploaded on the website of the Department of State Education Research and Training (DSERT) by Karnataka state Textbook Society revealed removal of chapters on Tipu Sultan for the seventh grade.

Justifying the decision, officials said, "students study similar chapters in Class 6 and more in the 10th grade." Yet another senior official from the Text Book Society said, "Trimming does not mean we have removed half of the syllabus from textbooks. It is only keeping in mind the repetition we have condensed the chapters. In case students study about a particular dynasty in higher grades, then the same had been removed from lower grades."

A few months ago, there was an uproar over dropping of content on Tipu Sultan and MLAs from the ruling BJP also demanded the same and petitioned to the Chief Minister. Even an expert committee led by Prof Baraguru Ramachandrappa suggested to not drop any content on the historic figure. However, the department still decided to drop lessons from one of the classes while keeping the syllabus short for the next 120 active academic days.

Earlier this month, a controversy had erupted over the CBSE's decision to omit topics like federalism, secularism, citizenship, etc while reducing the syllabus for Classes 9 to 12. The education board had issued a detailed clarification later, stating that topics claimed to be dropped "are either being covered by the rationalised syllabus or in the Alternative Academic Calendar of NCERT".

"The rationalisation of syllabus up to 30 per cent has been undertaken by the Board for nearly 190 subjects of class 9 to 12 for the academic session 2020-21 as a one-time measure only. The objective is to reduce the exam stress of students due to the prevailing health emergency situation and prevent learning gaps," it said.

Last week, the Congress in Uttar Pradesh expressed its concern over 'deliberate and systematic' deletions of chapters related to the freedom struggle and the party's role in it from the Class 10-12 syllabi of the Secondary Education Board.

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