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  • Congress announces list of 218 candidates for Karnataka Assembly elections

    Chief Minister Siddaramaiah will contest from the Chamundeshwari seat.


    The Congress on Sunday announced a list of 218 candidates for the Assembly elections due in Karnataka next month. The party will announce candidates for five seats later and will support an ally in one seat, News18 reported.
    The state has 224 Assembly constituencies.

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    Chief Minister Siddaramaiah will contest the election from the Chamundeshwari Assembly constituency in Mysuru. His son, Yatheendra, is the candidate from the Varuna seat, which Siddaramaiah now represents.
    Karnataka Home Affairs Minister Ramalinga Reddy’s daughter Soumya R is the Congress’ candidate from the Jayanagar constituency in Bengaluru.
    The Assembly elections in Karnataka will be held on May 12, and the votes will be counted on May 15. These elections are key because Karnataka is the only major state left under the Congress’ rule, and its results are expected to set the tone for the 2019 Lok Sabha elections.

    In Dakshina Kannada, sitting MLAs J R Lobo from Mangaluru South, U T Khader from Mangalore (Ullal), Mohiuddin Bava from Mangaluru North, Shakuntala Shetty from Puttur, Ramanath Rai from Bantwal and Vasant Bangera from Beltangady have been given the tickets. The Moodbidri ticket, for which Congress had three aspirants, has gone to sitting MLA Abhaychandra Jain.

    In Udupi district, Pramod Madhwaraj (Udupi), Vinay Kumar Sorake (Kaup), Rakesh Malli (Kundapur), Gopal Bhandary (Karkala) and Gopal Poojary (Byndoor) have been given the tickets.

    The Bharatiya Janata Party has yet to announce its candidates for the state polls.

  • Congress announces list of 218 candidates for Karnataka Assembly elections

    Chief Minister Siddaramaiah will contest from the Chamundeshwari seat.


    The Congress on Sunday announced a list of 218 candidates for the Assembly elections due in Karnataka next month. The party will announce candidates for five seats later and will support an ally in one seat, News18 reported.
    The state has 224 Assembly constituencies.


    Chief Minister Siddaramaiah will contest the election from the Chamundeshwari Assembly constituency in Mysuru. His son, Yatheendra, is the candidate from the Varuna seat, which Siddaramaiah now represents.
    Karnataka Home Affairs Minister Ramalinga Reddy’s daughter Soumya R is the Congress’ candidate from the Jayanagar constituency in Bengaluru.
    The Assembly elections in Karnataka will be held on May 12, and the votes will be counted on May 15. These elections are key because Karnataka is the only major state left under the Congress’ rule, and its results are expected to set the tone for the 2019 Lok Sabha elections.

    In Dakshina Kannada, sitting MLAs J R Lobo from Mangaluru South, U T Khader from Mangalore (Ullal), Mohiuddin Bava from Mangaluru North, Shakuntala Shetty from Puttur, Ramanath Rai from Bantwal and Vasant Bangera from Beltangady have been given the tickets. The Moodbidri ticket, for which Congress had three aspirants, has gone to sitting MLA Abhaychandra Jain.

    In Udupi district, Pramod Madhwaraj (Udupi), Vinay Kumar Sorake (Kaup), Rakesh Malli (Kundapur), Gopal Bhandary (Karkala) and Gopal Poojary (Byndoor) have been given the tickets.

    The Bharatiya Janata Party has yet to announce its candidates for the state polls.

  • History

    Gangolli – Wikipedia

    Situated at the mouth of an estuary where 5 rivers( Souparnika River, Varahi River, Kedaka River, Chakra River, and Kubja River) meet, Gangolli hence was earlier called “Panchagangavali”. The local Kannada versions of those river names are Kollooru hole, Haladi hole, Rajadi hole, Vandse hole and Hemmadi hole.

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  • Candlelight vigil on April 16 against rape culture, citizens urged to join

    Mangalore: A candlelight vigil will be organised at DC’s office here on Monday April 16 at 6.30 pm, condemning the incidents of rape and other crimes against women, particularly the Kathua and Unnao cases.
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    Social activists, students, professionals and other concerned citizens will be part of the vigil.
    A meeting on Saturday April 14 to discuss the protest. It was decided that those participating in the the vigil will not target any political party or individual nor resort to sloganeering.
    Mother of Sowjanya, who was raped and murdered in Beltangady in 2012, will also join the protest.
    The organizers stressed that the protest will be against rape culture and against rapists and not any one or two incidents.
    Giving details, social activist Vidya Dinker said, “People like us who love each other and uphold humanity should raise our voice against such brutalities that happened in Kathua. We should come together and condemn the incident. By doing this, we should give a signal to the culprits that we will not sit mum on the heinous crime.
    “The Kathua victim is our daughter. She was raped and killed by inhuman mentalities. To escape from punishment they got help from those in power. Tomorrow they may come to our areas and kill our daughters too. So we need to wake up and protest. I appeal to all who love humanity to join the candlelight vigil,” she said.
    Source : Daijiworld

  • Outrage across India after 8-year-old girl raped and murdered

    The rape and murder of an eight-year-old girl has sparked outrage throughout India.
    Asifa Bano disappeared on January 10 while grazing her horses in a meadow in Kathua, a city in the state of Jammu and Kashmir. Her mutilated body was found in a nearby forest a week later.
    On Wednesday (local time) a document was released by the Jammu and Kashmir state police detailing the charges that have been laid in the case. It reveals that the horrendous crime was the result of a religious and political conflict over land.
    Asifa belonged to the Bakarwal, a group of nomadic Sunni Muslim shepherds who have started to settle permanently in some areas, angering the local Hindu population who already lived there.
    According to the police charge sheet, Asifa’s attackers kidnapped her in order to drive her family out of Kathua. She was taken to a nearby Hindu temple where she was drugged, tortured and gang-raped before being strangled and beaten to death.
    Four of the six men who were arrested for Asifa’s rape and murder were police officers, the BBC reports, one of whom allegedly helped search for the girl after she was reported missing.
    Another suspect was a retired government official. They all belonged to the local Hindu community that has been locked in a land dispute with the Bakarwal.
    Thousands of members of the radical right-wing ‘Hindu Unity Platform’ have protested the arrests, demanding that police release the men. On Monday (local time), Hindu lawyers tried to physically stop police from filing their investigation report in court, claiming the men had been framed.
    The gruesome case provoked outrage from many Indians on social media, some of whom compared it to the 2012 rape and murder of a 23-year-old woman on a bus in Delhi.

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    Swati Maliwal, chief of Delhi Commission for Women, has announced she will fast indefinitely to demand safety for woman and children in India.
    Prime Minister Narendra Modi issued a statement about Asifa’s murder on Friday (local time).

    “I want to assure the country that no culprit will be spared, complete justice will be done,” he said. “Our daughters will definitely get justice.”

    Source – Newshub
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  • Candlelight vigil on April 16 against rape culture, citizens urged to join

    Mangalore: A candlelight vigil will be organised at DC’s office here on Monday April 16 at 6.30 pm, condemning the incidents of rape and other crimes against women, particularly the Kathua and Unnao cases.
    Image: For Illustration
    Social activists, students, professionals and other concerned citizens will be part of the vigil.
    A meeting on Saturday April 14 to discuss the protest. It was decided that those participating in the the vigil will not target any political party or individual nor resort to sloganeering.
    Mother of Sowjanya, who was raped and murdered in Beltangady in 2012, will also join the protest.
    The organizers stressed that the protest will be against rape culture and against rapists and not any one or two incidents.
    Giving details, social activist Vidya Dinker said, “People like us who love each other and uphold humanity should raise our voice against such brutalities that happened in Kathua. We should come together and condemn the incident. By doing this, we should give a signal to the culprits that we will not sit mum on the heinous crime.
    “The Kathua victim is our daughter. She was raped and killed by inhuman mentalities. To escape from punishment they got help from those in power. Tomorrow they may come to our areas and kill our daughters too. So we need to wake up and protest. I appeal to all who love humanity to join the candlelight vigil,” she said.
    Source : Daijiworld

  • Rape convict throws shoes at public prosecutor inside special POCSO court

    UDUPI: A person accused of raping a minor threw shoes at the special public prosecutor Vijay Vasu Poojary at the district and sessions court here on Thursday evening. Prashanth (32) who was sentenced to 20 years of imprisonment after charges against him was proven in the court, threw his shoes.
    Prashanth was charged under sections of The Protection of Children from Sexual Offenses (POCSO) Act. As the judge, who had examined 15 witnesses in this case, was pronouncing the quantum of punishment, the accused Prashant, a resident of Keerthinagar in Aroor village of Brahmavar started abusing the special public prosecutor (SPP) Vijaya Vasu Poojary, then removed his shoes and hurled the same at the prosecutor. However the SPP escaped from being hit by the shoes. He also threatened Poojary of dire consequences.
    T Venkatesh, judge of POCSO special court, had pronounced 20 years of imprisonment and slapped Rs 25,000 fine against the accused.
    Prashant, the convict was angry and even went on to say that he got the punishment because of the argument placed in front of the court by the special public prosecutor. Then in the presence of police, lawyers and the judge, he dared to hurl the shoes at Vijaya Vasu Poojary.
    ”This is not an attack on me. This is an attack on the judicial system of this country. This incident has to be taken seriously” requested the special public prosecutor with the judge. The judge directed the superintendent of police (SP), to take suitable action.
    Police officers have confiscated the shoes that were hurled by Prashanth after obtaining permission from the court.
    Prashant, the convicted in the rape case, is also accused in a case of murder registered at Brahmavar police station. In addition, he has several other cases also registered against him.
    Prashant had enticed a 15-year-old girl of Koteshwar on February 17, 2013 and took her to his relative’s house in Padigar near Udupi. He had sexually abused the minor girl the next day morning. A case was registered in Kundapur police station on this regard under the POCSO Act. The then circle inspector P M Divakar had submitted the charge sheet to the court after conducting inquiry. SP Laxman Nimbargi said that Udupi circle police inspector is investigating the case and Special Public Prosecutor Vijaya Vasu Poojari will be given police protection.
    This is the first case of a convict hurling shoes inside the court in Udupi district in its history of 20 years.

    Source  – New Indian Express

  • Outrage across India after 8-year-old girl raped and murdered

    The rape and murder of an eight-year-old girl has sparked outrage throughout India.
    Asifa Bano disappeared on January 10 while grazing her horses in a meadow in Kathua, a city in the state of Jammu and Kashmir. Her mutilated body was found in a nearby forest a week later.
    On Wednesday (local time) a document was released by the Jammu and Kashmir state police detailing the charges that have been laid in the case. It reveals that the horrendous crime was the result of a religious and political conflict over land.
    Asifa belonged to the Bakarwal, a group of nomadic Sunni Muslim shepherds who have started to settle permanently in some areas, angering the local Hindu population who already lived there.
    According to the police charge sheet, Asifa’s attackers kidnapped her in order to drive her family out of Kathua. She was taken to a nearby Hindu temple where she was drugged, tortured and gang-raped before being strangled and beaten to death.
    Four of the six men who were arrested for Asifa’s rape and murder were police officers, the BBC reports, one of whom allegedly helped search for the girl after she was reported missing.
    Another suspect was a retired government official. They all belonged to the local Hindu community that has been locked in a land dispute with the Bakarwal.
    Thousands of members of the radical right-wing ‘Hindu Unity Platform’ have protested the arrests, demanding that police release the men. On Monday (local time), Hindu lawyers tried to physically stop police from filing their investigation report in court, claiming the men had been framed.
    The gruesome case provoked outrage from many Indians on social media, some of whom compared it to the 2012 rape and murder of a 23-year-old woman on a bus in Delhi.

    Swati Maliwal, chief of Delhi Commission for Women, has announced she will fast indefinitely to demand safety for woman and children in India.
    Prime Minister Narendra Modi issued a statement about Asifa’s murder on Friday (local time).

    “I want to assure the country that no culprit will be spared, complete justice will be done,” he said. “Our daughters will definitely get justice.”

    Source – Newshub

  • Rape convict throws shoes at public prosecutor inside special POCSO court

    UDUPI: A person accused of raping a minor threw shoes at the special public prosecutor Vijay Vasu Poojary at the district and sessions court here on Thursday evening. Prashanth (32) who was sentenced to 20 years of imprisonment after charges against him was proven in the court, threw his shoes.
    Prashanth was charged under sections of The Protection of Children from Sexual Offenses (POCSO) Act. As the judge, who had examined 15 witnesses in this case, was pronouncing the quantum of punishment, the accused Prashant, a resident of Keerthinagar in Aroor village of Brahmavar started abusing the special public prosecutor (SPP) Vijaya Vasu Poojary, then removed his shoes and hurled the same at the prosecutor. However the SPP escaped from being hit by the shoes. He also threatened Poojary of dire consequences.
    T Venkatesh, judge of POCSO special court, had pronounced 20 years of imprisonment and slapped Rs 25,000 fine against the accused.
    Prashant, the convict was angry and even went on to say that he got the punishment because of the argument placed in front of the court by the special public prosecutor. Then in the presence of police, lawyers and the judge, he dared to hurl the shoes at Vijaya Vasu Poojary.
    ”This is not an attack on me. This is an attack on the judicial system of this country. This incident has to be taken seriously” requested the special public prosecutor with the judge. The judge directed the superintendent of police (SP), to take suitable action.
    Police officers have confiscated the shoes that were hurled by Prashanth after obtaining permission from the court.
    Prashant, the convicted in the rape case, is also accused in a case of murder registered at Brahmavar police station. In addition, he has several other cases also registered against him.
    Prashant had enticed a 15-year-old girl of Koteshwar on February 17, 2013 and took her to his relative’s house in Padigar near Udupi. He had sexually abused the minor girl the next day morning. A case was registered in Kundapur police station on this regard under the POCSO Act. The then circle inspector P M Divakar had submitted the charge sheet to the court after conducting inquiry. SP Laxman Nimbargi said that Udupi circle police inspector is investigating the case and Special Public Prosecutor Vijaya Vasu Poojari will be given police protection.
    This is the first case of a convict hurling shoes inside the court in Udupi district in its history of 20 years.

    Source  – New Indian Express

  • Social Worker V. Vasudeva Hande Felicitated

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    Gangolli: Social Sports and Charitable Association congratulated and felicitated Mr. V. Vasudeva Hande for his social work on the occasion of 3rd anniversary.
                                                                         

    The function was organised at Vanti Compound in Jamia Mohallah.

    Businessman Mr. Moulana Ibrahim Saheb presided the function and felicitated Mr. Vasudeva Hande

    Imam of Kirimanjeshwara Juma Masjid Moulana Zameer Rashadi, Nagoor Pesh-Imam Moulana Meera Sahed Nadvi, Administrator of Madrasa Fatimat-uz-Zahra Gangolli Moulana Mateen Siddiqui,
    SDPI Gangolli Unit President Mr. Tabrez Khalife, Mr. Abu Mohammed, Mr. Kazi Ashraf, Gangolli Jamatul Muslimeen Secretary Abdul Raheem, Mr. Ummer Sahed, Mr. Shahabuddin Awoof were present at the ceremony.