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Thursday, September 4, 2025
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Topic: Belagavi

How spate of vandalism reignited decades-old Maharashtra-Karnataka tussle over Belagavi

The past week has seen statues defaced and clashes between Kannada and Marathi groups, with the legislature promising tough action as an old border dispute flares up.

Hindu man ‘killed by Muslim girlfriend’s family’ in Karnataka’s poll-bound Sindagi

Body of Ravi Nimbargi, 34, was fished out from a well Sunday, three days after he went missing. The woman's brother and uncle have been arrested.

How parents of Hindu woman ‘hired’ Hindutva activists to kill her Muslim boyfriend in Belagavi

Belagavi police probe into the ‘murder’ of Arbaz Aftab Mullah has revealed that he and his mother were intimidated first and then extorted. His body was later found on a railway track.

‘Parents of Belagavi Hindu woman got Hindutva vigilantes to kill her Muslim lover’, 10 arrested

Police claim activists of Sri Ram Sene Hindustan took money from woman's parents, and then intimidated, extorted money from, and killed Arbaz Aftab Mullah on 28 September.

Hindu girl’s family missing after Muslim man’s ‘murder’ in Belagavi, no one knows where they are

Arbaz’s mutilated body was found on railway tracks on 28 September. He was allegedly murdered over his interfaith relationship with a Hindu woman.

Bring biryani, we’ll eat together: Last thing ‘murdered’ Belagavi Muslim man told mother

Arbaz Aftab Mullah was allegedly murdered over his relationship with a Hindu woman. His mutilated body was found on the railway tracks in Belagavi on 28 September.

In Belagavi, police question 2 activists of Sri Ram Sene offshoot for Muslim man’s ‘murder’

Arbaz Aftab Mullah's mutilated body was found on railway tracks and family claimed it was 'murder' because of an interfaith relationship, which was made to look like accident.

Funded Congress’ cooker distribution in 2018, will spend for BJP win now: Karnataka minister

Targetting his former party’s Belagavi Rural MLA, Karnataka minister Ramesh Jarikholi says he had funded Laxmi Hebbalkar’s 2018 assembly poll campaign.

North Karnataka state flag unveiled, protesters refuse to call off Thursday’s bandh

CM Kumaraswamy promises to tour all 13 districts and bring development, BJP’s Yeddyurappa attempts to stop the movement.

On Camera

On Arundhati Roy, mother-daughter conflicts, and the burden of being a ‘good mother’

When reading the book, one can see Roy’s mother as a 'fascist government' unto herself, the centre of her own cult. In Arundhati’s words, Mary Roy was ‘mother guru’.

A Rs 33,000 cr ‘banking fraud’: ED’s case against Arvind Dham, Amtek’s web of ‘500 shell companies’

ED has accused Amtek promoter Arvind Dham of controlling web of nearly 500 shell companies operating as a layered structure, with up to 15 levels of indirect ownership, to divert funds.

‘Loyal wingman’ to full ICBM triad & air defence, China’s show of power at Victory Day parade

China flaunted military might & modernisation as it displayed stealth drones, anti-satellite system & cyber warfare contingent during parade to mark victory over Japan in WWII.

For Indian Mercedes, Asim Munir’s dumper truck in mirror is closer than it appears

From Munir’s point of view, a few bumps here and there is par for the course. He isn’t going to drive his dumper truck to its doom. He wants to use it as a weapon.