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R-Day protest against casteist tradition; Thousands attempt to gherao Krishna Temple

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January 26, 2012

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Udupi, January 26: People in Srikrishna Temple, through the caste based discrimination while serving mass meal have been trying prove that they were above the Constitution, said State Secretary of CPI (M) Srirama Reddy.

He was addressing the agitators here on Thursday, at a protest organized by Karnataka state unit of CPI (M), to launch its statewide protest against 'Pankthi-bedha' in 250 temples of the state, including Sri Krishna Temple, Udupi.

Over 3,000 members of communist party of India (Marxist) from Udupi, DK, Koppala, Raichore, Bellary, Shimoga, Chikmagalore and Uttara Kannada districts participated in the protest. They made an attempt to march towards the Car Street of Srikrishna temple by pushing the barricades put along the Sanskrit College circle and courted arrest.

Reddy said that Indian Constitution, accepted exactly 63 years ago propagates against social inequality, untouchability and caste based discrimination. Inspite of that this discriminatory act is being practiced in Srikrishna Temple. “People in Srikrishna Mutt are anti-constitutional”, he alleged.

He challenged the Pejawar Pontiff Vishwesha Theertha to stop merely making media statements against Pankthibedha and to eliminate the system if he really felt it was inhuman.

Members of the CPI (M) State Secretariat GN Nagaraj, Nithyanand Swamy, CPI (M) Dakshina Kannada secretary B. Madhava, its Udupi district Secretary K. Shankar, comrades KR Sriyan, Prasanna Kumar, Neela and others participated in the protest.

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July 7,2020

New Delhi, Jul 7: Congress leader Dinesh Gundu Rao's wife Tabu Gundu Rao informed that four of their employees have tested positive for coronavirus.

"Well sadly our PA, one more Gunman and 2 house staff tested positive. We are all thankfully negative but in isolation and quarantine for 10 to 14 days from today, to check if we develop symptoms as we are primary contacts to them. Hopefully we should get through this," Tabu tweeted.

According to the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, there are 23,474 coronavirus cases in Karnataka including 13,255 and 372 deaths.

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April 17,2020

Bengaluru, Apr 17: The Ministry of Information and Broadcasting on Thursday served a show cause notice to a Kannada news channel for broadcasting a programme in which it purportedly said that the Centre would 'air drop money' to the poor, owing to the COVID-19 lockdown.

The notice said that the channel was "spreading false information, creating panic and social unrest.

" The channel had allegedly aired a show titled, "Helicopter Money" on Wednesday which claimed that the Centre would drop money from helicopters during the lockdown period.

A Twitter user took a serious note of it and complained to the Union Minister for Information and Broadcasting Prakash Javadekar.

The fact check team of the Press Information Bureau, under the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting, refuted the claim.

In its notice to the channel, PIB said, "You are hereby directed to show cause why your channel should not be taken out of air immediately. You are instructed to send your reply in this regard within 10 days of receipt of this notice."

Reacting to the notice, the management of the news channels said, "A programme which has been seen in bits and pieces and those who have not even seen the programme appears to have complained. Notice will be replied accordingly."

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February 29,2020

Udupi, Feb 29: Senior Congress leader and Udupi’s crackers trader K Krishnaraja Saralaya allegedly committed suicide by jumping into a well outside his house at Paniyadi on Saturday.

He was 87, Krishnaraja was leading a solitary life. It is suspected that he ended his life ''due to mental agony''.

He is survived by two daughters. One is settled in Australia another is in Bengaluru. Saralaya had also served as President of Udupi Town Co-operative Society. The police visited the spot .

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