"In a bizarre move, the administration of a private degree college in Dakshina Kannada, has suspended two female students, after their two year old photos with liquor bottles and cigarettes went viral on WhastApp. girlsThe victims are students of second year Bachelor of Business Management (BBM) at a degree college in Kukke Subhrahmanya on the outskirts of the city. The suspension comes after the students belonging to local unit of ABVP brought the issue to the notice of the college authorities and pressed for action against the 'immoral activities' of the girls in question.
'Governor Vajubhai Rudabhai Vala said on Wednesday that saffronisation is nothing but way of Indian life and it infused culture in a person. Addressing a gathering at the inaugural ceremony of golden jubilee of Vivekananda Degree College and Vivekananda Pre-University College at Puttur, the Governor said: “We proudly speak about saffronisation, will continue to do so, and achieve saffronisation as well.”... The Governor said that ancient scriptures have shown a way of life. If it was sought to be replicated now what was wrong in doing so, he asked.
'The Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP) on Sunday got around a ban on the entry of its leader Praveen Togadia into Bengaluru, formerly known as Bangalore, by playing a 15-minute video recording at a VHP convention in the state in which Togadia demanded that India should be declared a "Hindu Rashtra". The video started playing before thousands of supporters at the fag-end of the event, catching the police unawares. Though some police personnel climbed on to the stage in an attempt to turn off the video, the organisers refused to reveal where the main power switch was, leaving the police red-faced.
'A green activist — who had called for a public meeting against the felling of thousands of trees to make way for high-tension (HT) power transmission towers through the verdant forests of Kodagu district — has been slapped with charges of waging a war against the State. It is one of the several criminal charges made against activist K A Ravi Chengappa. However, the high court, which is hearing his petition for quashing this case, said it was not convinced with the kind of prosecution and wondered how protesting against a HT power line would amount to waging a war against the state...'
"The district units of the Komu Souharda Vedike and the People’s Union for Civil Liberties (PUCL) have said that more communal incidents were reported in 2014 in Dakshina Kannada and Udupi districts than the previous year. Submitting a memorandum to Dakshina Kannada Deputy Commissioner A.B. Ibrahim, they demanded that monthly meetings be held with victims from the minority communities. The office-bearers of the two organisations said in a press release that 2014 witnessed 173 communal incidents in the twin districts of Dakshina Kannada and Udupi against 121 cases in 2013..."
"Governor Vajubhai Vala has defended the “saffronisation” of education in the country. “There is nothing wrong in spreading the messages of Rama, Krishna, the Buddha, Mahaveera and other great personalities. Such education helps in imparting values to children. An attempt at saffronising education was made in the past; it will be continued in the present and in the future, too,” he said while speaking at the golden jubilee celebration of Vivekananda PU and degree colleges in Puttur on Wednesday..."
'"I want to join the Army and fight Pakistan," says 15-year-old Dhangapaya. And what if he doesn't get selected? "I will join the Bajrang Dal and protect the country." From whom? "Terrorists, anti-nationals, those promoting western culture…" he rattles off in faultless Kannada. Dhangapaya is one of the 70 children from Meghalaya who are receiving free education at the Sri Rama Vidya Kendra - an institution run by the RSS in a small town near Mangalore called Kalladka...
"Since August when news of allegedly murky activities involving the Ramachandrapura Mutt, a Brahmin religious centre in Shimoga, Karnataka, emerged, the story of its seer and a singer has unravelled like a potboiler. The saga began on August 27 this year when a former lead singer in Ramakatha programmes organised by the Ramachandrapura Mutt was arrested by the police along with her husband for allegedly demanding Rs 3 crore from chief pontiff Raghaveshwara Bharati to “suppress” her charges of sexual exploitation against him.
"An accessories store owner in Mangalore, Zabeullah, was on Monday attacked by a gang when he was escorting one of his women employees home. She happened to be a Hindu and the attackers allegedly accused Zabeullah of being a 'love jihadist' as they assaulted him. The police have arrested six Bajrang Dal activists for the attack and identified them as Prasad (21), Arun (24), Rakshit (21), Praveen (26), Deepak (26) and Yuvaraj (23)... Coming to the defence of the six attackers, senior lawyer and Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP) leader Jagadish Shenava told HT, "We don't believe in violence.
"In a suspected case of hate crime, Bengaluru police arrested three men on Wednesday who reportedly assaulted a Manipuri student with rocks for not speaking the local language. T Michael Lamjathang Haokip was attacked a little after midnight in a part of the city mostly inhabited by migrants, particularly students from the northeast states and Africa. The 26-year-old received wounds to his head and back but doctors said he was out of danger.
