Miffed with ‘opportunistic party’ remark by Siddaramaiah, HD Kumaraswamy hits back

Politics

Siddhramaiah had said that JD(S) is not a political party but merely an opportunistic seeking power and lean towards whoever will assure the same.

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Reacting to Siddramaiah’s comment about Janata Dal Secular being an “opportunistic party”, former Chief Minister H D Kumaraswamy in an interaction with the press, on Sunday, said that it was the Leader of the Opposition who had first sought the party’s help. The Kumaraswamy further said that during the coalition government, he felt like a clerk. The JD(S) leader, who was miffed with the remark, mentioned at the Bagalkot JD(S) convention that after they were allegedly held responsible for the dissolution of the merger, they wanted to start anew.  “I was a clerk in the coalition government. When I was sworn in as the CM, I couldn’t independently think for Siddaramaiah would always pressurize on one hand and on the other was the BJP government that came to power using farmers’ waiver as their bate,” said the politician expressing his displeasure over the government. Kumaraswamy further said, “The Congress leader was the one who approached us and wanted to befriend us. The coalition did not work well and there was a fallout. Why is he [Siddaramaiah] dragging us through the mud when the friendship is long over? We don’t want to dig up old graves.” Siddhramaiah had, early on January 31, made a statement in the press that JDS is not a political party at all and that they were merely opportunistic seeking power who’d lean towards whoever will assure the same. He also claimed that their party [Congress] had paved the way for economic development in the state unlike other parties. The Congress-JD(S), the coalition government in Karnataka, had raised hopes of formation of a grand alliance to take on the Modi-Shah duo ahead of the 2019 Lok Sabha polls, lost the trust vote and was dissolved in July, 2019 which was brought upon because of internal bickering among congress leaders and lack of coordination among top leaders from both the parties. 

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Man attacks woman in Mangaluru restaurant for rejecting advances

Crime

The incident occurred in Coconut Grove restaurant in the city when a group of men barged in looking to speak with a woman.

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A group of men barged into a restaurant in Mangaluru on Saturday, reportedly upset with a woman for rejecting advances. Another man, attempting to prevent the woman from being attacked, was injured in the incident. The scene was caught on CCTV and police officials from Kadri (Mangaluru East) police station registered a case of criminal intimidation, assault and rioting. According to the police, the incident occurred on Saturday afternoon at Coconut Grove restaurant located on Bendoorwell Main Road in the city when a group of men including Trishul, Santosh, and Danish barged into the restaurant and allegedly attacked a group of people inside.  The 24-second long video clip shows a group of men barging into a restaurant and immediately starting to attack those seated around a table. In the group, two men wearing helmets start by throwing another helmet placed on a table near the door. The other men engaged in a fist fight, while throwing objects on the four people seated around a table. Two men in the group seated around the table retaliate and take the fight outside, while two women stare at the door.  Kadri police inspector Savitra Teja told TNM that the police has registered a case against the attackers. “The incident occurred at Coconut Grove restaurant when a man barged in looking to speak to a girl he was in love with. This led to a dispute between two groups and one person sustained minor injuries. The woman is fine and did not sustain any injuries but one person who tried to block the men from attacking her was injured,“ Savitra Teja said.   Police officials said that the investigation into the attack is underway and a First Information Report was registered against Danish, Santosh, Trishul and others under charges of rioting, unlawful assembly, criminal intimidation and assault.

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Karnataka's Covid positivity rate at 0.69 per cent

Coronavirus

With 522 new cases on Saturday, the state's Covid tally increased to 9,39,387

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Reversing the trend, 522 new Covid-19 cases in a day outnumbered 465 recoveries across Karnataka, said the state health bulletin on Sunday. "With 522 new cases on Saturday, the state's Covid tally increased to 9,39,387, including 6,029 positive cases, while recoveries rose to 9,21,122, with 465 patients discharged during the last 24 hours," said the bulletin. Of the 4 deaths occurred due to the virus in the day, 3 were from Bengaluru and 1 from Dharwad, taking the state's death toll to 12,217 since the pandemic broke in March last year. In Bengaluru, 242 fresh cases were registered on Saturday, taking its Covid tally to 3,98,886, including 3,827 active cases, while recoveries rose to 3,90,667 with 212 discharged during the day. Of 145 patients in the intensive care units (ICUs), 68 are in Bengaluru hospitals and 13 in Kalaburagi, while the rest are spread in the remaining 28 districts across the southern state. Out of 75,451 tests conducted in the day, 3,896 were through rapid-antigen detection and 71,555 through RT-PCR method. "Positivity rate was 0.69 per cent and case fatality rate 0.76 per cent across the state on Saturday," added the bulletin.  

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Leopard that's been entering Bengaluru apartment finally caught

Wildlife

The leopard fell into one of the traps set by the Forest Department on Monday morning.

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The leopard that had caused residents of Prestige Song, a residential society off Bengaluru’s Bannerghatta, distress has been caught by the officials on Monday morning. The leopard will be released in the nearby Bannerghatta National Park by the Forest Department officials. “We were about a team of seven on-duty. The leopard fell into one of the traps set by us around 3.30 am in the morning and we waited until it was bright enough. We are taking the leopard and will release it in a conducive environment so that it does not return again,” said Deputy Forest Range Officer Harsha, who was present at the location during the sighting. When the leopard was first spotted on January 24, it was believed that it strayed and entered the building. The CCTV camera footage accessed from the apartment then had shown the big cat crossing a road within the apartment complex. Since then, the video has been doing the rounds on social media platforms, including WhatsApp.  The leopard sighted at Prestige Song apartment building fell in the trap set by Forest Department officials The CCTV footage of the leopard created a scare among the residents of the building as well as others in the neighbouring areas of Begur and Koppa near the Hulimavu lake. After the incident, officials had set up camera traps and were using drones to trace the leopard. The police, along with the Forest Department, had also formed teams to comb the area in a bid to capture the big cat and release it back into the wild. Harsha and the team have been constantly monitoring the area.  The leopard was spotted again in the area on Friday, January 29. Residents had been distressed over the leopard still roaming around in the vicinity. The residents alleged that they have been sighting the leopard every day; although no untoward incident has been reported so far. Experts said the leopard was moving from the open forests, passing through the apartment complex to go to the caves nearby. 

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Karnataka schools to reopen for Classes 9 and 11 from Monday

Education

A timetable issued by the Karnataka Education Department to all high schools stated that classes will be held from Monday to Saturday.

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With the easing of COVID-19 restrictions and the decline in coronavirus cases across Karnataka, regular classes for students of classes 9 and 11 will begin from Monday as per the guidelines, an education official said on Sunday. According to the protocols of the Union Ministry of Home Affairs and guidelines of the Union Health Ministry, full-day classes for students of grades 9 and 11 will begin in all high schools across the state from Monday an official had said to IANS.  As schools and colleges remained shut since March 25, 2020, to contain the pandemic, students were attending classes online since July. Offline classes for classes 10 and 12 had begun from January 1. State Chief Minister BS Yediyurappa had in December announced the reopening, however, attendance at schools and colleges was not mandatory.  Students could choose to attend classes online through the YouTube channel and practice other sources. The official added that school for students of classes 6-8 under the Vidyagama scheme will continue to be held in the open air on alternate days from 10:00 am to 12:30 pm. According to a timetable issued by the Department to all high schools for classes 9,10, 11 and 12; the classes will commence from 10:00 am to 4:30 pm on all days [Monday-Saturday], he said. Wearing a face mask, maintaining physical distance and sanitising hands will be mandatory for all students, teachers and staff in all schools and colleges. The students have been advised to carry their own packed lunches, and have to furnish a consent letter signed by the parents to attend classes, which mentions that their wards are free from coronavirus. The Education Department has also directed all schools to sanitise classes and maintain hygiene in the premises to prevent the virus spread. The Education Department is yet to decide on starting classes for students of first to fifth grades in primary schools across the southern state. The Primary and Secondary Education Minister S Suresh Kumar had announced on January 28 that the state government has decided to hold full-day classes for students of classes 9, 10, and first and second-year Pre-University across the state from February 1.

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Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj was a Kannadiga’, claims Karnataka Dy CM Karjol

Politics

Karnataka Deputy Chief Minister Govind Karjol claimed that Chhatrapati Shivaji’s forefathers migrated from Gadag district’s Soratur to Maharashtra.

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Govind Karjol, Deputy Chief Minister of Karnataka, on January 31, claimed that Maratha king Chhatrapati Shivaji was a 'Kannadiga'. He claimed that the King’s forefather Belliyappa was a Kannadiga from Soratur of Gadag district. His comments came in response to Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray’s statement on the inter-state border row. Speaking to reporters in Belgavi, Karjol said, “Shivaji's forefather Belliyappa was a Kannadiga from Soratur in Karnataka's Gadag district. When drought struck Gadag, he [Belliyappa] migrated to Maharashtra, and Shivaji was the fourth generation of his family. Thackeray should at least know this much about Shivaji, who is Shiv Sena's icon and named the party after.” Karjol like other Karnataka legislators asserted that raking up the old inter-state border row was an attempt by Thackeray to divert attention from internal bickering in the Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) coalition government, which was formed by Shiv Sena, Congress and Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) on November 28, 2019, in Maharashtra. At a book launch on the border dispute between the two states, in Mumbai on January 27, Maharashtra CM Uddhav Thackeray said areas dominated by Marathi-speaking people in Karnataka like Belagavi, Karwar and Nippani should be declared as the 'Union Territory' till the Supreme Court gave the final verdict in the decades-old case. Belagavi, about 500km northwest of Bengaluru was part of the erstwhile Bombay Presidency during the British rule but was given to Mysore state during the reorganisation of the states on linguistic grounds in 1956. Maharashtra then said that there were more Marathi-speaking people living in Belagavi and hundreds of its villages, which was part of Karnataka. The Union government then constituted the Mahajan Commission in 1967 to settle the inter-state boundary dispute. The Mahajan committee that was set up recommended that 264 villages be transferred to Maharashtra and that Belgaum and 247 villages remain with Karnataka. Maharashtra did not agree with the report, unlike Karnataka. Maharashtra filed a petition in the Supreme Court challenging the Mahajan report and the case is still pending in the top court.

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Car rams into a lorry, four youth die in Bengaluru

Accident

Three among the four travelling in the car died on the spot.

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Four young people were killed in a road crash on Bellali road on January 31 during the wee hours of the night. The car that the youth were travelling in, rammed into the back of a concrete mixer lorry near Chikkajala in Bengaluru.  According to the statement released by the police, those involved in the accident were Madhusudhan (26), Milan Raj (19), P Shivashankar (26) and M Anusha (22) and were all residents of Bagalur, a village in the northern part of the Bengaluru. While the three men died on the spot, Anusha succumbed to her injuries at Columbia Asia Hospital in the city.  A case was registered against the driver of the lorry and Madhusudhan under Indian Penal Code 279(punishes a person driving recklessly or negligently endangering others), 304 (A) (causing death due to negligent act, not amounting to homicide) and under clause 134 (non-compliance with the regulations pertaining to motor accident) of The Motor Vehicle Act. The statement read, “A case has been registered against the lorry driver and Madhusudhan based on the complaint by a resident of Satanur village, SK Channegowda at the nearby Traffic Police station. The case is being investigated by Joint Commissioner of Police B R Ravanekanta Gowda, Deputy Commissioner of Traffic North Division Sajith VJ and Assistant Commissioner of Police Northeast Sub-division and the local inspector.” According to the investigating officer, inspector Muralidhar P of Chikkajala Traffic Police Station, an investigation of the claims made by Channegowda against the lorry driver, will commence today. He further added that the relative who claimed to be an uncle of the deceased had filed a complaint after he [Channegowda] learnt all the details upon arriving at the scene.

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