VHP to discuss CAA, Ram Mandir at 3-day-meet in Mangaluru

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December 27, 2019

Mangaluru, Dec 27: The Vishva Hindu Parishad (VHP) will discuss the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) and construction of Ram Mandir at Ayodhya at its three day conclave in this Karnataka port city beginning on Friday.

The meeting of the right wing Hindu group’s 'Prabandh Samiti' as well as its 'Pravasi Mandal baithak' come ahead of the crucial meeting of its Margdarshak Mandal at Uttar Pradesh’s Prayagraj on January 20.

According to a statement by the VHP, "the act that the central government has brought in is giving justice to millions of Hindus with whom historical wrong was done at the time of partition. So being a Hindu organisation, Vishva Hindu Parishad will do everything in its power, so that these Hindus receive citizenship.

Secondly lot of wrong and false misinformation have been spread about CAA". The VHP also said it will hold “awareness programmes on the positive aspect of the CAA”.

It said that there is “no discrimination in CAA as it deals with the minorities that have been tortured in the three Islamic countries of Afghanistan, Bangladesh and Pakistan”. “Muslims are not minorities in Islamic country. There is no discrimination against them. This act does not deal with Indian Muslims at all.

It deals with only the minority refugees, Hindu Jain, Buddh, Sikh and Christians who have come to India seeking shelter because of the religious persecution that they faced in Pakistan, Afghanistan and Bangladesh,” said the statement issued by VHP Secretary General Milind Parande.

The VHP will also discuss the formation of the trust in connection with the construction of the Ram temple in Ayodhya. “So it is the Hindu expectation that according to the instructions of the Supreme Court, the Central government will form a system, may be a board or trust or whatever, that will take into consideration the Hindu feelings. It should be an independent system.

The temple should not be built by the government, but by the society’s money,” it said. The VHP emphasised that the temple should be built according to the model that was popularised during the Ram Janmabhoomi agitation and with the sculpted stones available in Ayodhya. The VHP meet will also take up women security issues.”

Because of lack of Hindu sanskars, many women are facing insults throughout the country. So, Vishva Hindu Parishad will be taking up a task about how to improve Hindu sanskars, how to re-establish Hindu values into the society, so that women will be respected and treated with respect in every walk of life,” it said.

Organisational issues will also figure at the meeting expected to be attended by over 300 activists. A three-day baithak organized with as many as 300 workers from across the country are expected to attend the “Prabandh Samiti” as well as its “Pravasi Mandal baithak”.

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March 25,2020

Bengaluru, Mar 25 : Karnataka recorded its highest single-day tally to date, as 10 people tested positive, taking the total number of cases to 51 in the state.

“Till date 51 COVID-19 positive cases have been confirmed in the state which includes one death and three discharged," the health department said in a statement on Wednesday.

The rise in cases adding to the growing national tally of people who have tested positive for COVID-19.

The daughter of a former union minister from the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) from Karnataka has also tested positive.

Bengaluru accounts for 32 of the total 51 cases recorded in the state so far,including three who have fully recovered and released.

Dakshina Kannada has five confirmed cases, Chikkaballapura and Kalaburagi has three cases each, Mysuru has and Uttara Kannada has two cases each and four other districts have one case each.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi has announced a 21-day lockdown of the country to keep people indoors and contain the spread of the virus in the community.

The government has also been trying to scale up testing.

Medical education minister K.Sudhakar on Wednesday told Mint that Karnataka will scale up testing by 10-fold with the help of government and private labs approved by the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR).

A total of 2,438 people have been tested in Karnataka and 2242 have tested negative, according to state health department. 214 people are lodged in medical hospitals.

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January 22,2020

Kochi, Jan 22: Rail passengers from Kerala are a happy lot as the state’s traditional food items such as appam and eggcurry, puttu and kadala curry have found their way back to the revised menu of the Railways in the wake of protests over reports that they were replaced by north indian delicacies.

The popular Kerala dishes were reinstated to the list following social media backlash over the Indian Railway Catering and Tourism Corporation’s reported decision to replace the favorite cuisine of Malayalis from its menu with north Indian dishes such as Kachori and Chole Bhature.

Ernakulam MP Hibi Eden, who had shot off a letter to Railway Minister Piyush Goyal raising the issue of alleged discrimination against Keralites, got an assurance from the IRCTC officials that popular items, including snacks such as unniyappam and sukhiyan will be served through its outlets in the state.

Eden said the IRCTC officials who visited him at his home on Wednesday morning have presented him with the list of delicacies to be served by its local vendors in Kerala. In his letter to the minister, the MP had stated that dishes which are very important to Malayalis for breakfast such as appam, egg curry, porotta, dosa, steam cake (puttu) were excluded along with snacks such as banana fry (pazham pori), kozhukkatta, unniyappam, neyyappam and sukhiyan.  He had also raised the issue of hike in price of food items.

According to him, price of meals has been increased from RS 35 to 70 and that ofsnacks such as vada from Rs 8 to 15.  While the price of vada has not been reduced, the fare of snack meal like parotta, chappathi, idiyappam, appam and puttu with kadala curry or egg curry will be served at Rs 50.  According to IRCTC, a passenger will have to shell out Rs 20 for unniyappam/sukhiyan/neyyappam, 2 numbers each.  Informing Goyal of the changes in menu, he said Malayalis are discriminated in trains and railway refreshment rooms by the food which is the right of every passenger.

He had sought urgent intervention of the Minister and speedy action in the matter.

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June 27,2020

Bengaluru, Jun 27: Karnataka witnessed the biggest single-day spike in Covid cases on Saturday as 918 cases were recorded and 11 more deaths were linked to the pandemic. 

In Bengaluru alone, 596 more people tested positive for the infection in the last 24 hours as three more fatalities were also confirmed by the Department of Health and Family Welfare Services.

Following is the district wise tally:

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