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Appeals for Jammu & Kashmir flood relief from Karnataka

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Bangalore: The devastating flood that has hit the state of Jammu and Kashmir, in the first week of September has left many dead and countless more homeless. People are stranded in their homes, as vast areas including major towns like Srinagar, Shopian, Pulwama are submerged under water. Telephone links and other means of communication have stopped, and the road link between Jammu & Srinagar is severed.

In these times of distress, concerned people from across India and beyond are pitching in to do their part, to help the people effected by this disaster. Here’s the list of individuals and organisations we know, who are coordinating relief efforts from Karnataka.

Karnataka for Kashmir Forum is an initiative from the awesome people at the Alternative Law Forum and a group of students, individuals and members of progressive organizations, who have come together to effectively co-ordinate and organize relief efforts for flood victims of Jammu and Kashmir. We are told, they are in touch solidarity groups in Bangalore, Delhi & Self-help groups in Kashmir who are trying to take relief material to Kashmir.

Collection Points for monetary donation:

Address: Alternative Law Forum (ALF), #122/4, Infantry Road, Bangalore – 560 001 (next to Balaji Art Gallery) Landmark: Shivajinagar Bus Stand

Contact:
Santanu
+91 9986411180
santanu.lp@gmail.com

Leon
+91 9742145360
leon@esgindia.org

Bank Details for Contributions
Name of A/c Holder: Aman Biradari Trust
Bank Name: IDBI Bank Limited
Branch: 1/6, Siri Fort Institution Area, Khel Gaon Marg, New Delhi – 110049
A/c No: 010104000156950
IFSC Code: IBKL0000010
Delhi Co-ordinator: Warashi Farasat – +91 9953825580

www.facebook.com/karnatakaforkashmir

Millath Relief Trust is collecting funds across Bangalore and we are told they have started relief work in flood hit areas. The organisation will be collecting funds in mosques across the city, after the Friday prayers on September 12 and 19. They have also urged to the Imams in local mosques to make an appeal to donate funds during the sermon.

The collected funds can be handed over to the following location:

Feroze Estate Agency, Cunningham Road – 98450 18080
Maulana Zainul Abideen saheb, Masjid Shah Waliulla – 9845203682
Maulana Iftekhar Ahmed Qasmi saheb, Bismillahnagar -9448065278
Indiranagar Masjid Committee, Ziaulla Khan– 9845665459
Anjuman Khuddamul Muslimeen, Masood – 9845028786
Islamic Centre, Jayanagar, Habibulla Khan– 9972225180
Jamiat ul-Ulema Karnataka, Asadulla Moosa Khan – 9035759617
Jamat-e-Islami Hind, R T Nagar, Mohammed. Bilal – 8762697929
Lal Masjid, Tafheemulla Maroof– 9972861200
BIFT Darussalam, Queens Road, Rizwan – 080 41472910

HOPE (Helping Out People Everywhere) from Mangalore, who has done some great relief work in Muzaffarnagar in the aftermath of the communal violence last year, will be in Srinagar next week with relief materials, their volunteers have collected so far. People in Mangalore, and surrounding areas can get in touch with them to coordinate efforts.

Address: HOPE Foundation Office, Shop # 302, 3rd Floor, BMK Commercial Complex, Opposite Highland Hospital, Mangalore – 575001, Karnataka, India.

Bank Account Details:
A/C No. 106200301000092
Hope Foundation
Vijaya Bank, Falnir Branch, Mangalore.
IFSC CODE: VIJB0001062
SWIFT CODE: VIJBINBBMLR

http://www.hopef.in/
https://www.facebook.com/hopefoundationmangalore

Following discussions with various relief groups, below is the list of items that we have been informed are essentials for coming days, and funds for the same must be collected and transferred immediately to the volunteer groups.

Immediate Rescue Kit: Boats/Rafts, Life Jackets, Tents, Ropes, Tarpaulins, Mats, Blankets, Plastic Sheets.

Medicines: First Aid (Bandages, Band Aid, Betadine, scissors, hydrogen peroxide, soframicine powder/tube), Insulin with Syringes, Anti-Allergic (Cetrizine, Allegra), Cough Syrup (Benedryl, Zedex), Diabetic Medicines, Antacids (Diegene, Diegene Syrup, Gelusil), Water Purification/Chlorine Tablets, Vomiting (Domistal, Ranitidine), Antibiotic for Cold & Cough (Ciplox, Cifran, Augmentin), Fever (Crocin, Combiflam, Calpol), Malaria (Chloroquine tabs and injection), Allergy/Asthma (Asthalin, Deriphyllin), Pain Killers (Dispirin, Brufen, Combiflam), Children’s Pain Killer (Ibugesic), Skin Irritation (Lactacalamine, itch guard), Disinfectants (Dettol, Savlon, hand sanitizers).

Food: Dry Ration, Canned Food, Milk Powder, Biscuits, Glucose, Infant Food, Drinking Water.

Other Items: Sanitary Napkins/Pads, Diapers, Chappals, Track Suits, Torch Lights – Batteries, Mobile Chargers.

Dissidence brews in Congress

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All is not well in state Congress, with dissidence brewing on a daily basis against Siddaramaiah’s government by disgruntled MLAs for cabinet posts. But many ministerial aspirants lining up the queue, Chief Minister Siddaramaiah has decided to set aside the cabinet expansion by at least a month.

Sources close to Nasheman, say two of the reasons, why the CM does not wants to expand his cabinet, is firstly his aversion to appoint a deputy CM, which has been a long waiting demand of State Congress president G. Parameshwara, and secondly is his self reasons to single handedly control state politics for a longer time.

However, with the results of the recently concluded bypoll elections coming in favour of Congress, Siddaramaiah has effectively consolidated his powers, with even Congress general secretary in-charge of state, Digvijay Singh saying, he would leave it to the CM on when to expand the cabinet.

The biggest looser in this power struggle at least for now, seems to be G. Parameshwara, who left with no apparent choice, has given up his demands, following the decision of Congress high command.

“I have been a sincere party worker and will continue to be so throughout my career. I will stick to the high command’s decision in this regard,” he told reporters on seeking his reaction to the reports that the central Congress leadership was not in favour of creating the post of deputy chief minister in the state.

Though this has come as a disappointment, Parameshwara might strike at the right juncture, after being low for some time. One has to keep in mind that, he is an old party loyalist, and Siddaramaiah is still considered an outsider by many. Sources close to Nasheman, say that, MLAs left out of the cabinet may join forces to strengthen Parameshwara to unseat CM Siddaramaiah.

With these two camps cat fighting each other, one interesting individual to watch out for would be DK Shivkumar (DKS). An old party loyalist, DKS belongs to the powerful Vokkaliga community, who might well be a lone survival in the struggle for power between two leaders from the backward class.

No Al-Qaeda threat to Karnataka, says CM Siddaramaiah

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CM Siddaramaiah (Photo credit: IE)

CM Siddaramaiah

Bangalore: Days after Al-Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri announced the formation of an Indian branch of his global armed group that he said would spread Islamic rule and “raise the flag of jihad” across the subcontinent, Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah play downed the issue and said that there was no threat to the state from the outfit.

However, he said the state is on high security alert, following the centre’s direction on the matter.

Al Qaeda, which many counter-insurgency experts claim have kept a low profile, since the assassination of its founder Usama bin Laden in 2011 in Pakistan, have been eclipsed mainly from its offshoot organisations, which have emerged in recent years since the uprisings in the Arab/Muslim world.

In a video posted online on social forums, the present Qaeda leader, said the new force would “crush the artificial borders” dividing Muslim populations in the region.

“This entity was not established today but is the fruit of a blessed effort of more than two years to gather the mujahedeen in the Indian sub-continent into a single entity,” he said.

Meanwhile, Home Minister K.J. George claimed that the law and order situation in Karnataka was best in the country.

Additional Director-General of Police, Law and Order, Kishore Chandra told the media that the police are always on alert and there was no need for any special security arrangements, however, according to sources close to Nasheman, the police are keeping a close watch on individuals and organisations in their radar.

U. R. Ananthamurthy no more

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U. R. Ananthamurthy (Photo credit: Roy Sanai/Tehelka)

Bangalore: Renowned writer and Jnanpith awardee U. R. Ananthamurthy, passed away in a hospital here on Friday, where he was undergoing dialysis for kidney failure.

The condition of 82-year-old writer, admitted 10 days ago, had deteriorated for the past few days and was closely monitored for infection and fever, and was undergoing treatment on multi-support system.

“…Ananthamurthy has been unwell for a while, he had multiple problems including kidney disease for which he had been on dialysis for the last few years…,” Manipal Hospital Medical Director & Chairman – Medical Advisory Board H Sudarshan Ballal told reporters earlier today.

According to doctors, Mr. Murthy’s “condition had deteriorated in the last day or so.”

Born on December 21, 1932 in Melige, a tiny hamlet near Thirthahalli taluk of Shimoga district, Udupi Rajgopalacharya Ananthamurthy was the sixth of the eight Jnanpith awardees from Karnataka. For his readers and admirers, his work came to symbolize humanity and its courage in questioning cultural norms. Best known is his 1966 novel, Samskara, a story that asks: Can culture survive only if it is followed with blind fervour?

A Padma Bhushan award winner, Ananthamurthy was a finalist for the Man Booker Prize in 2013. The Man Booker committee called him as, “one of the most important representatives of the “Navya” or “New Movement” in the literature of the Kannada language.”

A vocal opponent of mindless bigotry and fascism of every kind, Ananthamurthy became an ardent critic of Narendra Modi during the 2014 Lok Sabha elections, and said he would leave the country if Modi won the election and became the Prime Minister of India. Explaining his views on Modi, he wrote that, “Modi symbolises all the greed that development has brought—heartlessness, the lack of sense of duty, and intelligence. It has all been lost to development. And they become blind to hungry children and mothers, schools without teachers, bad roads. It is a nightmare. Modi stands for that more than anyone else…Modi has built his political fortune by giving a big bali during the Gujarat riots. He silenced the Muslims.”

U. R. Ananthamurthy was said to be not keeping well for more than a year now. In one of his last interviews published by Mint in April this year, the writer said that, “I have lost my kidneys. I was on peritoneal dialysis for a year. The man who attended to me had to wash his hands 10 times or have gloves on, which was very expensive.”

He is survived by his wife, Esther, and two children, Sharat and Anuradha.

Girl gangraped in Bangalore, police arrest three

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(Photo credit: Indian Express)

Bangalore: In yet another incident of gross sexual brutality, a 22-year-old woman was allegedly gangraped by three men, and then held captive in a farmhouse near Tippagondanahalli, 35 km west of Bangalore.

The young survivor, who works as a sales woman in the city, has alleged in her compliant that she was raped by three men, who had earlier offered to drop her home, when she was waiting for a bus near Majestic area, after her work shift on Wednesday night.

The men allegedly took her to a farmhouse near Tippagondanahalli  and raped her through the night. The victim has alleged that she was also raped by the caretaker of the farmhouse.

Though pained and traumatized by the violent savagery of her tormentors, the rape survivor managed to escape from the farmhouse, in a semi-nude state, and flagged down a cab driver and reached the  local Tavarekere police station and lodged a complaint.

The rape survivor and the trio were subjected to medical tests. Preliminary investigations confirmed rape, police said.

The alleged abductors and rapists, Arun Narasimhamurthy Gowda (24), and his friend Kempa Narasimha (36), are said to be from affluent families. And Mahadev alias Mahadevaiah (45), was the caretaker of the farm. Arun, a son of a Karnataka Milk Federation (KMF) official, is a cement and steel businessman from Magadi taluk, and Kempa, also from Magadi, is a timber merchant.

“We have arrested all the accused,” DSP (Ramanagar) Lakshmi Ganesh said.

Goa chief minister Manohar Parrikar bans Sri Ram Sene in the state

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Manohar Parrikar (Photo credit: HT)

Manohar Parrikar (Photo credit: HT)

Porvorim: The Goa government has banned the entry of hardline Hindutva outfit Sri Ram Sene from the state, chief minister Manohar Parrikar announced on the floor of the House yesterday.

“I had asked police to prepare a report and it was sent to the collector to ban the entry of Sri Ram Sene in the state. We have banned Sri Ram Sene,” Parrikar said.

Sri Ram Sene’s controversial leader, Pramod Muthalik had announced his plans to setup  a unit of his organisation in Goa last year, though he hadn’t revealed a timeline for its operation.

Speaking to reporters on the sidelines of the All-India Hindu Convention, Muthalik had said that “we had to postpone the launch of the organisation in Goa due to various reasons including the just concluded assembly elections in Karnataka.” He had said that his Belgaum unit head was in touch with around 200 local youth in the state for the cause.

Responding to a question posed by Fatorda MLA Vijai Sardesai on whether the government had banned the group following opposition demands, Parrikar said Sri Ram Sene has been banned because of its plans to enter the state.

Describing the order banning Sri Ram Sene in Goa as ‘toothless’, Rajya Sabha MP and AICC Secretary Shantaram Naik told reporters that, “the ban order imposed by the Goa Government on Sri Ram Sene is without teeth, unless the order is followed by a regular order by the Central Government under the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act, 1967.”

Founded in the 1960s, the ring wing Hindu nationalist group came to notoriety in 2009, when its members barged into a pub and attacked young women, accusing them of “indecent behaviour” and “an insult to Hindu culture and tradition”.

The attack which garnered wide spread condemnation, brought Sri Ram Sene to the forthwith of national and international attention, with even RSS favouring a ban on the organisation.

Since then, the group has been involved in a spate of violent speeches and actions especially targeted against women, and the minority Muslim and Christian communities.

In 2012, with a clear intention to flare up communal tensions between different communities, its members had raised Pakistan’s national flag on a government building in  Sindgi, near Bijapur, Karnataka and then accused the Muslim community for the mischief. The incident lead to angry protests by Hindu organisations and the stoning of a mosque. Six members of the group were later arrested for “creating communal disharmony.”

Meanwhile, Sri Ram Sene (SRS) workers burnt effigies of Chief Minister Manohar Parrikar today and staged protests in parts of Karnataka. They said that the group will defy the ban, and added that Muthalik himself would be present for the launch of the unit in Goa.

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