After effecting a major VIP security cut and withdrawal of SPG cover from the Gandhis, the Union government has now decided to completely remove NSG commandos from this task, official sources said.
The last of the four illegal apartment complexes here was razed down through controlled implosion method on Sunday, marking the completion of the demolition drive against the waterfront high rises ordered by the Supreme Court over three months ago.
Renowned Kannada scholar and researcher M Chidananda Murthy, who passed away on Saturday morning, was laid to rest with the state honors. His funeral was held at Lingayat Rudhrabhumi in Sumanahalli in the City.
Sudarshan Moodbidri has been elected as the new President of Dakshina Kannada district BJP. It is learnt that he has been elected unanimously in the elections held at the BJP District Office on Sunday.
Amid ongoing protests over the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA), senior BJP leader and Union Minister Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi on Sunday said there was no going back on the amended law and the government was firm on it.
A fact-finding committee of the Congress on the JNU violence on Sunday said the January 5 attack inside the university campus was "state-sponsored" and recommended Vice Chancellor M Jagadesh Kumar be dismissed and criminal investigation initiated against him.
The government has declared one-day state mourning on Monday in view of the demise of the Sultan of Oman, the home ministry announced on Sunday.
Strongly defending the new citizenship law, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Sunday the dispute that has arisen over it has made the world aware of persecution of religious minorities in Pakistan.
As many as 109 children were sexually abused every day in India in 2018, according to the data by the National Crime Record Bureau, which showed a 22 per cent jump in such cases from the previous year.
One more illegal lakeside apartment complex here was demolished on Sunday using controlled implosion method, complying with a Supreme Court order.
