Madikeri, Oct 21: Senior BJP leader and legislature Appachu Rajan on Monday urged Karnataka Minister for Primary and Secondary Education S Suresh Kumar to drop the lessons on Tipu Sultan from the school curriculum.
The MLA in a letter to the Minister has urged him to seek advice from subject experts in this regard and to include lessons on patriotism.
"The glorification of Tipu Sultan in history lessons should be done away with", the MLA urged in his letter.
Dubai, May 9: A flight scheduled to bring back Kannadigas, especially Mangalureans stranded in Dubai on May 14 has been rescheduled to May 12.
The flight will take off from Dubai at 4.10 pm UAE time and reach Mangaluru International Airport at 9.10 pm IST on May 12, announced Union Minister DV Sadananda Gowda in a tweet.
The flight was earlier scheduled for May 12 and then it was postponed to May 14. Now, it has been rescheduled to May 12.
It is said that constant persuasion from NRIs in UAE led to advance the paid evacuation drive.
In fact, Karnataka was missing in the list of states to receive special flights when Ministry of External Affairs arranged them to bring stranded Indians at UAE. Special flights were arranged only to Kerala and Tamil Nadu people stranded at UAE in the first stage.
Thanks to Karnataka NRI Forum of UAE which opened helpline to seek assistance to Kannadigas, nearly 2000 Kannadigas have registered for assistance in which 127 pregnant women, 27 senior citizens, 700 people who have lost jobs aftermath of coronavirus sought assistance from NRI forum.
In the first flight, priority will be given to people with medical emergency and pregnant women. Once the passengers reach Mangaluru, they will be quarantined in their home districts.
Mangaluru, June 29: An elderly man, who was under quarantine at a lodge was inhumanly dragged on the floor and abandoned on the roadside by his own son.
The shocking incident occurred in broad daylight at Deralakatte on the outskirts of the city today.
The father and son are said to be natives of Uppala in Kasaragod district. The duo stayed in a hotel room at Deralakatte after returning from Mumbai a few days ago.
Today the son dragged his father mercilessly on the floor and escaped after abandoning him on the road side. A CCTV camera has captured the incident.
The jurisdictional Konaje police are trying trace the miscreant.
Mangaluru, June 6: As many as 24 coronavirus positive cases reported in Dakshina Kannada in 24 hours (from 5 p.m. June 5 to 5 p.m. June 6).
With this the total number of covid-19 cases mounted to 167, among which 88 are currently active.
Among the newly detected 24 cases 11 are Maharashtra returnees, 6 are Dubai returnees, 1 is Arabia returnee, 1 is Ukraine/Turkey returnee. And source of 5 new cases still remained untraced.
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Tippu is tiger there is no dought in this...we all know who are marons nowdays....
Wa Appachu you understand the stupidity of ugly mind, fistupall you understand which you breadaed then you ask change Hindustan culture, rulers ruled their destiney as thy like, example, Mugals,Shivajis,Rajas all are did good ruling some times they did bad ruling, Tiger Tippu Sultan might have oppose Cross breeding that's why bulls opposess, but bullets support.
Ok replace Sher A Maysore with parem veer golvalkar.
Who did very much favor to bristish raaj.
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