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Chennai, Mar 6: Taking strong exception to the Maharashtra government’s ban on beef, Dravidar Kazhagam president K Veeramani on Thursday said eating habits are the fundamental rights of an individual and no government has a right to decide on them. Describing the move as ‘anti-Constitutional and anti-secular’, he said a majority of the people in the world eat beef and it was a nutritious diet

Mangaluru, Mar 6: Hindu Janajagruti Samiti, Mangaluru will organise a district-level Hindu convention on Sunday to unite Hindutva organisations and leaders to protect Hindu religion and establish a Hindu nation, said Samiti state secretary and state spokesperson of Hindu Mahasabha Dharmendra. Announcing this at a press conference here on Friday, he said that the convention was an attempt to bring

Mumbai, Mar 6: Maharashtra government has said it had reconstituted a high powered committee on the Maharashtra-Karnataka border row. The eight-member panel, headed by Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis, will comprise senior NCP leader Sharad Pawar and senior state ministers from both BJP and Shiv Sena. Leaders of opposition in State Legislature will also be part of the panel, according to a

Mangaluru, Mar 6: To spread light on the relevance and practicality of caste-based census with respect to social justice among castes in the country, a seminar on ‘Caste Census - Why and How’ was organised by Karnataka Beary Sahitya Academy in collaboration with Talent Research Foundation, at TRF auditorium in the city on Thursday. Inaugurating the seminar, AHINDA district president Vasudev Boloor

Mangaluru, Mar 6: A communal harmony activist in the city has lodged a complaint against Sadhwi Balika Saraswati for making a hate speech during the Virat Hindu Samajotsav recently held at Nehru Maidan. Teenage Sadhwi from Madhya Pradesh was the main speaker at the Samajotsav organized in the pretext of golden jubilee celebration of the Vishwa Hindu Parishad. In a complaint filed with Mangaluru

Bengaluru, Mar 6: The State government will consider whether penalty can be imposed on a builder for violation of norms in construction and formation of layouts, under the regularisation scheme of unauthorised structures in urban areas (popularly known as the Akrama-Sakrama scheme). As per the present rules, the regularisation fee is imposed on the property or the building owner and not on the

Bengaluru, Mar 6: The High Court on Thursday sought to know whether the word 'minority' in terms of linguistic and has been defined by the State government. Hearing the petitions filed by Kodagu Academy of Education and Culture and Citizen Education Society seeking directions from the court to exempt them from allotting 25 percent seats under the Right to Education (RTE)?Act, 2009, Justice B V

Belagavi, Mar 5: Belagavi South MLA Sambhaji Patil received an extortion call, with the caller asking the legislator to pay Rs four lakh to five lakh. Following this, the legislator registered a police complaint on Wednesday. Patil said that the caller, who identified himself as Ravi Pujari, asked him for the money. The call has been traced to Australia. The caller twice called the landline phone

Bengaluru, Mar 5: Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal was today admitted to a naturopathy institute on the city outskirts for a 10-day treatment of his persistent chronic cough problem and other ailments. The AAP leader, who landed at the airport around noon accompanied by his parents, drove straight to Jindal Nature Cure Institute on Tumkuru Road on city outskirts. Kejriwal would undergo

Mangaluru, Mar 5: In a bid to overtake, the reckless driver of a speeding bus rammed into two vehicles leaving several persons injured at Kolnad near Mulky on the outskirts of the city on Thursday. Even there were no reports of casualties, at least three persons were in a critical condition after the accident. The owners of all the three vehicles suffered huge losses. The accident led to a major