Respect  

 Guru, who hailed from Mandya, was martyred in the Pulwama terror attack on February 14. Karnataka chief minister HD Kumaraswamy paid his respects to the martyr. Guru's mortal remains arrived in Bengaluru
 

 Smriti Irani said that religious practices should be "respected" and anyone breaching them just to 'make headlines' would do a great disservice to the country's diversity.
 

Comparing himself with a rape victim, Ramesh Kumar, the Speaker of the Karnataka state Assembly chose to exhibit the delicate and untenable situation he was put in by the members of both the ruling and opposition parties.

 

NSS general secretary G Sukumaran Nair said that CPI(M) state secretary Kodiyeri Balakrishnan has no right to criticise them for standing with the devotees with respect to the Sabarimala issue. 
 

Here are the stop stories for the day. The Indian cricket team moved up one place to second in the ICC ODI rankings in which captain Virat Kohli and pacer Jasprit Bumrah continued to top the respective charts for batsmen and bowlers. Watch MyNation in 100 seconds.

 

MyNation's Siddhartha Rai and Anindya Banerjee discuss the implications of the Narendra Modi government's application to the Supreme Court saying that it wishes to return the plots of land around the disputed site in Ayodhya to their respective original owners

This year's Padma Shri awardee Salumarada Thimmakka who is known as the Vriksa Mata has planted 8000 trees. Except for numerous awards and felicitations, she has nothing to live.

Here is how the southern states of India - Karnataka, Tamil Nadu, Kerala, Andhra Pradesh and Telangana celebrated the 70th Republic Day with patriotic fervour

Bollywood celebrities like Ajay Devgn, John Abraham, Salman Khan, Kriti Sanon, Katrina Kaif, Vicky Kaushal and others took to their respective social media handles to express their love and respect towards the nation.

Karnataka chief minister HD Kumaraswamy came to the rescue of minister SR Mahesh and defended his actions of lashing out at Tumakuru SP Divya Gopinath for stopping the minister from  entering through the VIP gate while paying last respects to Shivakumara Swamiji at the Siddaganga Mutt.