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Conversion?
Police complaint and case
Bantwal, Mangalore January 12:
'They were transporting some women to convert at Elyar Padav' was the complaint!! And, when police received this complaint from Shambhoor resident Vasanth, they were stopped at Panemangalore and a case was registered against them.!!!!
Who are they??? As per
Vasanth's complain, his mother-in-law Chandravathi has been
taken by Vally Pais, Thimothy Pais and Rita Walter to convert her
into Christianity. They were taking women from Shambhoor, Balthila grama.
Police registered a case at Bantwal City Police Station.
Why we have to convert people from other religion? Can we stop this
nonsense? We need some answers from these religion hungry people.
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'Help children
be creative'
He was inaugurating a two-day workshop on fine arts organised by the Dr. N. G. Pavanje Chair in Fine Arts. He wanted Mangalore University to start a course in visual arts like other universities.
Adults wrongly perceive think that by showing beautiful pictures they can help children develop a sense of art. They should be allowed to express their inner thoughts and feelings, he said.
R. S. Mallya, former principal of Corporation Bank Staff Training College, who presided, stressed the need for originality in arts. Art also helps in the development of personality, he added.
Dr. G. P. Shivaram, co-ordinator, N. G. Pavanje Chair in Fine Arts, who welcomed the gathering, said that there were plans to publish a book on N. G. Pavanje this year. Anasuya Pavanje, donor of the N. G. Pavanje Chair, distributed certificates among the participants of the workshop.
Programme on
Humanity Development
Mangalore, January 12:
A two-day programme on 'Humanity Development' through 'Manavatha Kendras'
was conducted on January 8 and 9 under the auspices of 'Andheri Hilfe' at
the CODP Institute for Social Development, here.
Sr. Jacintha, Principal of the School of Social Work, Roshani Nilaya, who
was the chief guest, spoke on the necessity to empower people to increase
their self-esteem and confidence. We should all be partners in development
and participate as change makers. There is need for networking and linkage
of people to reap the benefit of assertion and solidarity, she added.
"Each of us have a role to play as motivators and catalysts and we should
all go together as equal partners in this noble task," said Madam Elmira,
the president of Andheri Hilfe, Germany. She also stressed the need for
creating confidence among the downtrodden.
Legal profession
had high reputation, says Justice
Udupi, January 12:
Justice M. F. Saldhana of Karnataka High Court has said that the contempt
of court should not be used as a means to curb public opinion. Speaking at
the centenary celebration of Udupi court here on Saturday, he said alleged
scandals in the judiciary in Punjab, Rajasthan and Karnataka were a
"disastrous trend."
He said the legal profession had high reputation and none had the right to
defile it. Saldhana said there was also a need to "question ourselves as
to where we went wrong. Principles of dharma of profession had become the
watchword now to withstand all sorts of temptations leading to
corruption."
He also expressed concern over the standards of legal profession falling
now.
Help sought for
disabled children
In a press release issued here, Vasanthi A. Pai, president of the federation, said priority should be given to the implementation of various Acts for the welfare of the mentally retarded people.
Procedures should be simplified and support given to the parents' and self-help groups and voluntary organisations working for the welfare of disabled children.
Accident and health insurance cover should be given to every child irrespective of disabilities. These should be early detection of impairments leading to mental retardation. In the case of impairments, support should be given to the parents until the child was able to live independently.
Assistance should also be provided to children affected by AIDS and other diseases. Land and other infrastructure facilities should be provided to these persons. There should be job reservation for people with a lower intelligence quotient.
Battling for
religion shameful: Prof Asgar Ali
Former Karnataka CM M. Veerappa Moily speaks at the 23rd All India Indian
Social Science Association conference in Mangalore on Sunday.
Mangalore, January 12:
Poverty, illiteracy and ignorance are the real enemies of our society and
battling in the name of religion is a shameful act, Prof Asgar Ali,
director of the Centre for Social and Secular Studies, Mumbai, said.
Delivering the keynote address at the inaugural of the 23rd all India
conference of Indian Social Science Association (ISSA), organised by the
St. Aloysius College here on Sunday, Prof Asgar stressed on the importance
of communal harmony for the progress of the society.
Inaugurating the conference, former Chief Minister of Karnataka, M.
Veerappa Moily said that people belonging to different ethnic or religious
groups should be able to live together with dignity, respecting each
other's rights, religions and cultures without subjecting any group or
groups to hatred or ridicule or mental torture.
Moily said the State must treat every group on par and none should be
treated as superiors to others. It must always be remembered that the
citizenry is uniformly subject to the tax laws of the country, regardless
of his caste and creed or religion and is therefore entitled to equal
treatment under the law and its various instrumentality, he said.
In a pluralistic society, where people respect each other, where there is
opportunity for a free flow of ideas, a meeting of minds, this alone can
generate an atmosphere conducive to national growth and integration, he
said. Hatred and intolerance are bound to vitiate the atmosphere and
stifle economic growth, he added.
Five eminent social scientists - Prof. Sacchidanand Sahai, Prof. K. Gopal
Iyer, Prof. Marulasiddhayya, Prof. K. Gopal and Mahesh Shukla-were
honoured on the occasion. St. Aloysius College bagged the Prof Shankar
Sahai Srivasthava Memorial Shield.
Rev. Fr. Rony J. Prabhu inaugurated the exhibition. Rev. Fr. Vijay Kumar,
St. Aloysius College principal Rev. Dr. Prashanth Madtha, Dr. Mukul
Srivasthava and others spoke. Association president Prof Rajeshwar Prasad
presided over the function and organising secretary Dr. Richard Pais
proposed a vote of thanks.
NRIs in Gulf
lament partisan treatment
Though NRIs in the Gulf represent the second largest Indian community in the world - over three million -- only a few of them have been invited.
In addition, while they were among the first to moot the idea of dual citizenship, they were the only ones to be denied. Even their demand of voting rights was not taken up at the NRI meeting.
Kerala information minister M. M. Hassan has lodged a protest with the organising committee, regarding their under-representation at the meet.
While the 1.6 million Indians working in Saudi Arabia remit about $1 billion annually, only a few of them were present at the three-day celebration.
Hassan blamed Indian embassies for failing to contact different associations of the Indian diaspora in the Gulf nations.
Organising committee chairperson L. M. Singhvi admitted, "The Gulf is not adequately represented."
The Indians settled in the Gulf are now on an agitational path against the Kelkar committee's recommendation to impose tax on NRIs remittances.
Hassan said he had urged finance minister Jaswant Singh and external affairs minister Yashwant Sinha not to tax NRI income.
The NRIs remit about Rs. 24,000 crore every year to Kerala. If this income were taxed, said Hassan, it would not only be a big blow to the NRIs, but also break the backbone of Kerala's economy.
Woman dies under mysteriously
Bangalore, January 12:
The incident occurred in Beereshwaranagar and the victim has been identified as Geetha, wife of Chandru - a painter. The police said around 7:30 pm, Geetha came to the room (located next to her house) where four bachelors stayed. Basavaraj and Fakir were in the room while the other two had gone out.
She reportedly asked Fakir to go out for sometime and bolted the door along with Basavaraj. Fakir heard screams, broke open the door and entered to find Geetha dead in a pool of blood and Basavaraj soaked in blood. Police suspect that the victim and her neigbour were involved in an illicit relationship.
Man strangles wife to death for want of Rs. 1 lakh
Bangalore, January 12:
Angered by his wife's refusal to withdraw the Rs. 1-lakh fixed deposit in
her name and give it to him, a 35-year-old man strangled her to death in
Harohalli police station limits in Bangalore Rural District.
And in a bid to cover up the crime, he doused kerosene on her body, set it
ablaze and claimed that she committed suicide due to depression. However,
the accused, Raja of Konasandra was arrested on charges of murder today.
Police said Raja, an employee of a private company, had married Padma (25)
of the same village some time ago. On learning recently that his
father-in-law, Kariyappa, had deposited Rs. one lakh to Padma's account.
He started demanding her to withdraw the money and hand it over to him.
Padma's refusal to heed to his requests, he used to fight with her
frequently. In one such fight on Friday night, Raja allegedly strangled
her to death in a fit of rage. Later, he tried to set the body ablaze to
give an impression that she had committed suicide.
The jurisdictional police, who initially registered a case of unnatural
death, picked Raja for questioning following a complaint from deceased's
father Kariyappa, who suspected foulplay. During interrogation, Raja
confessed to have committed the crime, police claimed.