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 Kannada Chalavali Vatal Paksha president Vatal Nagaraj staged a protest in Karnataka and demanded Rs 20,000 crore from central government to rebuild Kodagu post floods

 

Kannada activists took to social media with the hashtag #MalgudiDaysInKannada and it soon became a state-wide trend

With SIT intensifying its probe on the murder of journalist and activist Gauri Lankesh and three arrests the SIT is getting closer to finding the mastermind of this operation.

Shahidul Alam, a well-known photographer and activist, was arrested Sunday by plain-clothed police after giving a television interview in which he said Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has no credibility and was using "brute force" to cling to power.

According to the FIR, Talib forcibly tried to rape Arjuman Begum when she went to Chadwa Forests for grazing her cattle

In exercise of the powers conferred by Article 80 of the Constitution, and on the advice of the Prime Minister, the President has nominated to the Rajya Sabha the renowned Odissi exponent, a popular RSS face on television, an activist for Dalit causes and a stone carver of international repute

The convicted CPM supporters are P Dhanesh (36), N Uthaman (40), O Babu (40), Chemmeri Prakashan (42), Manoli Umesh (40), V Ranjith (40), N Mukesh (32), Karat Purushothaman (52), C Sunesh (32), M Suraj (34) and V Shoji (37).