Belagavi in Karnataka has a sizeable Marathi-speaking population and and has been at the heart of a five-decade-old border row between the state and Maharashtra.
State home minister Basavaraj Bommai contested calling the facility a 'detention' centre and said it was made ready to lodge African nationals caught drug peddling.
CM Yediyurappa likely to make the announcement before next cabinet expansion. Karnataka govt has 3 deputy CMs now, and it was under pressure to induct more.
For an industry globally classified as hazardous, protections such as health insurance and a provident fund for workers are necessities. In Sivakasi, they remain elusive.
The industry forecasts exports are set to grow 16% in 2025-26, boosted by surplus domestic production and a drive to push into 26 underserved global markets with strong potential.
Taylor ‘Fema’ Hiester, commander of USAF F-16 Viper Demo Team, hit out at air show organisers for continuing with the show after Wing Commander Namansh Syal lost his life in the incident.
It is a brilliant, reasonably priced, and mostly homemade aircraft with a stellar safety record; only two crashes in 24 years since its first flight. But its crash is a moment of introspection.
I am no fan of Yadiyurappa. But, he has done what other timid politicians dared not do – put all these so-called “seers’ in their place. In Karnataka politics, every sect or caste has a Mutt, and a “seer”, who cannot see beyond his caste. Such people have been interfering in electoral politics too often. Politicians too have been guilty of hobnobbing with such pontiffs with the hope of garnering the votes of that particular sect. Especially, Lingayats and Vokkaligas are notorious for interference by pontiffs of their sects. It is good that Yadiyurappa has shows his place to this petty pontiff. He has received a lot of public support in Karnataka, including from other leading pontiffs. Ideally, if these seers want to play politics, they shed their saffron robe and enter electoral politics. They must not meddle in politics without any accountability.
I am no fan of Yadiyurappa. But, he has done what other timid politicians dared not do – put all these so-called “seers’ in their place. In Karnataka politics, every sect or caste has a Mutt, and a “seer”, who cannot see beyond his caste. Such people have been interfering in electoral politics too often. Politicians too have been guilty of hobnobbing with such pontiffs with the hope of garnering the votes of that particular sect. Especially, Lingayats and Vokkaligas are notorious for interference by pontiffs of their sects. It is good that Yadiyurappa has shows his place to this petty pontiff. He has received a lot of public support in Karnataka, including from other leading pontiffs. Ideally, if these seers want to play politics, they shed their saffron robe and enter electoral politics. They must not meddle in politics without any accountability.
SS want to live in politics by doing on regionalism cards. This type politics against Federalism.