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Mangaluru: The Rai Estates Educational and Charitable Trust, led by Puttur MLA Ashok Kumar Rai, will host the 13th edition of the 'Ashoka-Janamana' Deepavali celebration at the Kombettu Taluk Stadium in Puttur on Monday. The event, which is expected to draw nearly one lakh people, will be inaugurated by chief minister Siddaramaiah at 12.15pm, said Rai, president of the Trust.He said that unlike in previous years, when sarees were distributed to women and bed sheets to men, this year the Trust wi ...Read More >
Puttur: More than eleven individuals fell ill on Friday due to overcrowding at an event attended by Chief Minister Siddaramaiah in Puttur taluk stadium, Dakshina Kannada district. The incident transpired during the 'Ashoka Janamana' program, an event organized by Puttur MLA Ashok Rai, in which the Chief Minister was a participant. Eyewitness accounts detail a stampede-like situation, which led to several women and children experiencing medical distress. Immediate medical aid was administered at ...Read More >
Bengaluru, Sept 30 (PTI) Karnataka Home Minister G Parameshwara on Tuesday said the government directed the Special Investigation Team (SIT) probing allegations of "multiple murders, rapes and burials" in Dharmasthala to complete the investigation at the earliest. He also said the Forensic Science Laboratory (FSL) reports in connection with the case are pending. Speaking to reporters, Parameshwara said, "SIT is doing its job. FSL reports have to come. The recently discovered materials have bee ...Read More >
New Delhi: Industry leaders welcomed the recently announced GST reforms, which reduce the number of tax slabs, stating that it will make tax compliance easier while also directly benefiting consumers through lower prices. Jharkhand Chamber of Commerce Joint Secretary Navjot Alang Rubal said that the reduction of the number of slabs from four to two under the new GST structure is a highly positive step. According to Rubal, this reform will greatly benefit the middle and lower-income groups as t ...Read More >
Bengaluru, Sept 5 (PTI) A group of women personalities from diverse fields, including actor-theatre activist Arundhati Nag, filmmakers Kavita Lankesh and Suman Kittur, writer-journalist Vijayamma, gender and sexuality rights activist Akkai Padmashali, have written to senior Congress leader Sonia Gandhi urging her to ensure that the inquiry into a series of unsolved crimes in Dharmasthala must focus exclusively on delivering justice to women and other victims. Called "Kondavaru Yaaru? Who Killed ...Read More >
Mysuru: Chief Minister Siddaramaiah on Tuesday accused the opposition BJP of doing politics over the Dharmasthala case, and said the SIT was conducting an independent probe to establish facts in the matter. His government was not interfering in the investigation. He questioned the BJP, which is demanding a NIA probe into the case, whether they don't have faith in the state police and dubbed the party's "Dharmathala Chalo" rally as "political." "It is not Dharma Yatre, it is a political yatre. ...Read More >
Union Minister of Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution Pralhad Joshi alleged that the SIT probe at Dharmasthala was part of a conspiracy by the Congress against the majority community in the country. The Karnataka BJP Monday held a 'Dharmasthala Chalo' rally, condemning the Congress government for allegedly targeting Hindu religious centres in the state. The rally came in the wake of the ongoing probe by a Special Investigation Team (SIT) into the alleged secret burials at the temple ...Read More >
Chennai, Aug 28 (SocialNews.XYZ) Tamil Nadu has once again emerged as the country's leader in industrial employment, with Chief Minister M.K. Stalin attributing the achievement to the policies of the Dravidian model government. Citing the Union government's Annual Survey of Industries 2023-24, CM Stalin said the recognition from New Delhi is itself the strongest rebuttal to critics, who have been "targeting" the state government on the industrial and economic fronts. In a post on 'X', the Chie ...Read More >
Bengaluru, Aug 28 (PTI) Karnataka BJP on Thursday demanded that the SIT probe into allegations of multiple murders, rapes and burials in Dharmasthala over a period of the past two decades should be "time-bound". The party's state President B Y Vijayendra, rejecting allegations that the BJP was trying to politicise the case, questioned the Congress government's inaction against the conspirators and those behind the smear campaign against Dharmasthala. Responding to a question while speaking to ...Read More >
A social activist named Jayanth, from Ichlampady village in Puttur taluk, has claimed that he witnessed the burial of the decomposed body of a teenage girl in Dharmasthala-Ujire 15 years ago. A second witness has emerged in the mass burials case in Karnataka's Dharmasthala. According to The News Minute, a man claimed to have witnessed the body of a girl being buried in violation of procedure 15 years ago. A social activist named Jayanth, from Ichlampady village in Puttur taluk, has claimed tha ...Read More >
Mangaluru: A man has come forward with a complaint before the Special Investigation Team (SIT) -- probing the alleged mass burials in Dharmasthala -- claiming to provide details in connection with the murder of a minor girl nearly 15 years ago.Jayanth T told reporters: "I came forward to file a complaint in connection with the murder of a minor girl, which I witnessed around 15 years ago. No FIR was registered then, and the body was buried without investigation. I have now submitted a formal com ...Read More >
Patna, Aug 1 (PTI) Healthcare services were affected at AIIMS-Patna on Friday as resident doctors went on an "indefinite strike" in protest against the alleged high-handedness of Sheohar MLA Chetan Anand. According to a press statement issued by the Resident Doctors' Association (RDA), AIIMS-Patna, on Friday, "The RDA expresses deep disappointment and anguish over the lack of action by the administration following the violent and traumatic incident that occurred on Wednesday, when MLA Chetan An ...Read More >
Mangaluru: The special investigation team (SIT) probing the alleged mass burials near Dharmasthala continued with its exhumation work for the fourth consecutive day on Friday. Despite digging at two more spots identified by the complainant-witness, no human remains were found.This brings the total number of sites searched so far to eight, including site No. 7 and 8 on Friday. Partial skeletal remains were from at site No 6 on Thursday, after SIT mapped 13 locations on Monday for exhumation work. ...Read More >
Moradabad (UP), Aug 1 (PTI) The Moradabad district administration has cancelled the allotment of a government bungalow granted to former Uttar Pradesh chief minister Mulayam Singh Yadav. The Samajwadi Party (SP) has been asked to vacate the premises within 30 days. The bungalow, located in the posh Civil Lines area near the Police Training College (PTC II), was allotted to the SP patriarch 31 years ago. Spread across nearly 1,000 square meters on Nazul land, the property serves as the local S ...Read More >
Dharmasthala (Karnataka), Aug 1 (PTI) No skeletal remains were found on Friday at two sites in Dharmasthala identified by an anonymous complainant-witness as mass burial sites, police said. A day after skeletal remains were recovered from the sixth of 15 locations marked by the complainant, excavation was carried out under tight security at the seventh and eighth spots, located near the Nethravathi riverbank. However, the forensic and police teams reportedly found no human remains or signs of ...Read More >
The first human remains have been found in an investigation into the alleged secret burial of hundreds of women and girls, many showing signs of sexual assault, over two decades in the holy Indian town of Dharmasthala. In July, a former sanitation worker at the 800-year-old Dharmasthala Temple returned to the quiet town in southern India to make a startling confession to the police. He claimed that between 1998 and 2014, he was forced to secretly dispose of hundreds of bodies of women and mino ...Read More >
Mangaluru: No human remains were found at the two sites that were dug by the special investigation team (SIT) to look into the allegations of murder and secret burials at Dharmasthala on the fourth day on Friday. The complainant, a former sanitation worker at Dharmasthala, had identified 13 locations on Monday where he claimed bodies of murder and sexual assault victims had been buried. The SIT began digging these spots on Tuesday, starting with one location on the first day and four on the se ...Read More >
Bengaluru: The Karnataka government has constituted a Special Investigation Team (SIT) to investigate the alleged mass graves, disappearances, and crimes against women and students in Dharmasthala over the past two decades. A government order issued on Saturday said that it found it "appropriate to form a special investigation team" to probe the crime registered under relevant sections of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS) at the Dharmasthala Police Station and "all other criminal cases register ...Read More >
New Delhi, July 19: Communist Party of India (CPI) Rajya Sabha MP P. Sandosh Kumar has written to Union Home Minister Amit Shah seeking a thorough and independent probe by the National Investigation Agency (NIA) into a series of disturbing incidents in and around Dharmasthala, Karnataka. The letter, dated July 19, points to what the MP described as "a disturbing and systematic pattern of crimes -- primarily targeting women, often silenced through coercion, and concealed with frightening impunity ...Read More >
NEW DELHI: Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) leader Manoj Jha on Sunday moved the Supreme Court challenging the Election Commission of India's (ECI) decision to conduct a Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls in Bihar, which heads to elections later this year. In his writ petition, Jha contended that the process is "not only hasty and ill-timed, but has the effect of disenfranchising crores of voters, thereby robbing them of their constitutional right to vote." Jha's petition claimed th ...Read More >
Bengaluru: The Dakshina Kannada police in Karnataka are exploring the process to exhume human remains near the Nethravathi river after a former sanitation worker at the Dharmasthala temple alleged that he was forced to bury the bodies of several women and minors who were raped and murdered between 1998 and 2014. District superintendent of police K Arun said that a first information report( FIR) has been registered at the Dharmasthala police station under Section 211(A) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sa ...Read More >
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