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Bengaluru, May 2 (IANS) Actor and activist Ahimsa Chetan filed a police complaint against producer and former President of Rajkumar Fans Association, Sa Ra Govindu, on Saturday, alleging that he used abusive language and issued threats. It can be noted that objecting to questioning of allotment of 2.5 acres of land for Kannada cinema legend late Dr. Rajkumar by the Karnataka government, producer Govindu had allegedly threatened Chetan at his residence.Chetan while defending his stand had tendere…

Bengaluru, April 29 (IANS) Karnataka Home Minister G. Parameshwara said on Wednesday that the proposed AHINDA convention in Hubballi was aimed at addressing the socio-economic backwardness of marginalised communities and bringing them into the mainstream.The event is being held amid speculation that the convention was a show of strength for Chief Minister Siddaramaiah amid the row over the change of guard in the state.It can be noted that AHINDA stands for Alpasankhyataru, Hindulidavaru, and Dal…

New Delhi, April 25 (IANS) Union Minister of State (Independent Charge) for Science and Technology and Earth Sciences, Dr. Jitendra Singh, on Saturday said the government has put in place a wholesome system to support Scheduled Castes (SCs), Scheduled Tribes (STs), and other weaker sections right from an early age, enabling them to progress through sustained handholding and targeted interventions.Speaking at the launch of the Jammu and Kashmir chapter of the Dr. Ambedkar Chamber of Commerce at U…

Bengaluru, April 24 (IANS) As a special Cabinet meeting chaired by Chief Minister Siddaramaiah is held to discuss internal reservation, the Karnataka BJP on Friday alleged that the government has created confusion instead of providing internal reservation to Dalits, thereby sowing seeds of discord and pushing communities into conflict.The BJP claimed that the people of the state will not forgive the government for this.Speaking to the media at the BJP state office, former Deputy Chief Minister a…

Chamarajanagar, April 21 (IANS) Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah said the Congress party has always supported women’s reservation, and that it was the Congress government that implemented it in local bodies.​ He was speaking after participating in the laying of the foundation stone and the inauguration of various development works in Gundlupet taluk of Chamarajanagar district on Tuesday.​He said the Bharatiya Janata Party is falsely claiming that the Congress opposed the Women’s Res…

New Delhi, April 17 (IANS) Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Friday labelled Congress as the biggest anti-OBC (Other Backwards caste) party, while asserting that at least 27 ministers in the Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government belong to the OBC community.​​ Replying to the debate on the women’s reservation bill in the Lok Sabha, Amit Shah charged the Congress with not only opposing women’s reservation but also being perennially against the OBCs and Dalits.​​He said that the Co…

New Delhi, April 15 (IANS) Leader of Opposition (LoP) in the Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi on Wednesday attacked the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-led Central government, alleging that the 2011 census is being used to pass the Women’s Reservation Bill, rather than the current caste-based census that is being conducted in the country.”What the government is proposing now has nothing to do with women’s reservation. This amendment is an attempted power grab using delimitation and gerrymandering”, Gandhi …

Bhubaneswar, April 14 (IANS) Odisha Chief Minister Mohan Charan Majhi said on Tuesday that B.R. Ambedkar is not merely a name, but an ideology that shows the path of equality. The Chief Minister was speaking on the occasion of the state-level celebration of the birth anniversary of Bharat Ratna B.R. Ambedkar held at Jayadev Bhawan here.While addressing the gathering, Chief Minister Majhi also announced that one Ambedkar Bhawan will be constructed at Kharavel Nagar in Bhubaneswar, and the General…

Patna, April 14 (IANS) In a significant political development, Nitish Kumar resigned as the Chief Minister of Bihar on Tuesday, marking the end of an era that spanned nearly two decades.Nitish Kumar, who recently became a member of the Rajya Sabha, has now shifted his focus toward national politics.He visited the Raj Bhavan in Patna and formally submitted his resignation to Governor Syed Ata Hasnain, who accepted it, officially bringing the ‘Nitish Era’ in Bihar to a close.In a detailed message …

Hyderabad, April 14 (IANS) Telangana Chief Minister, A. Revanth Reddy, on Tuesday slammed the BJP for what he called hatching conspiracies to do injustice to Southern states in delimitation of Lok Sabha constituencies and called for a movement for increasing the seats on a pro-rata basis.Addressing the birth anniversary celebrations of Dr B.R. Ambedkar on Tuesday, he reiterated that the BJP is engaging in conspiracies regarding the delimitation of constituencies to do injustice to Southern state…