Security arrangements in the town of Kasargod has been stepped up in the wake of intelligence reports warning of the possibility of yet another spate of violence in the area.
MP Basudev Acharya has said that the Union Government moves to amend the Insurance Act 1938-56 would prove detrimental to the nation’s economy in the future.
It’s been exactly one year since Chief Minister Yeddyurappa had promised a grant of Rs 60 lakhs for the development of the prominent Swaraj Maidan in Moodbidri. But even a year after, the grant is not in sight. The CM had made the assurance while participating in a function at the very same Maidan on 28.12.2008, to celebrate the shashtyabda of a Dharmadhikari.
Residents of Jokatte who organized a protest meeting on Sunday opposing the notification of some land in the area for the MSEZ Corridor road project, have vehemently opposed the project and have made it clear that there was no question of letting any land for the project in Jokatte.
Addressing the agitators, Jaya Shetty, former member of the Jokatte gram panchayat said the villagers will retain their land at any cost.
Under the aegis of the Suratkal Citizens’ Action Committee, thousands of citizens will be laying siege to the MRPL on Monday to pressurize the company quit the place if it was unable to function in a pro-people manner.
Harikrishna Punaroor, President of the Action Committee for the Formation of Mulki Taluk and Court, has informed that a total bundh would be observed in Mulki on December 29 opposing the government decision to include Mulki hobali in Moodbidri after announcing it as a taluk, by dropping the proposal for the formation of a Mulki taluk.
“The BJP government in the state would collapse on its own,” predicted M Veerappa Moily, Union Minister for Law and Parliamentary Affairs.
Police have arrested one person named Donald, a resident of Tannirbavi in connection with the recent incident wherein a shed belonging to some Bihari workers was set afire in the Tannirbavi beach area on Thursday night, following a clash between the workers and some local youth.
A young pair reportedly attempted suicide by coming under a moving train on the railway track near the Bellayaru Chandramauleshwara Temple in Padupanambur of Mulki police station limits at around midnight on Saturday.
ASP Amith Kumar Singh has continued his raid against hotels that sell liquor unautorisedly in the city. On Saturday night Hotel Meena and Urva Quality Hotel were raided by a police team following definite information that the hotels were supplying liquor unauthorisedly to their customers. Cases have been registered in Urva and Kadri police stations.