Stop using loudspeakers in centres of worship: Dr Hampa
Udupi, June 8: Noted writer Dr Hampa Nagarajaiah said that either the Prime Minister or the respective governments should take steps to stop using loudspeakers in centres of worship.
After receiving Sediyapu Krishna Bhat award at a programme organized by the Rashtrakavi Govinda Pai Research Centre and, Manipal Academy of Higher Education at the MGM College here on Friday, he said that people of respective religions have to do prayers in their centres of worships. But stop using loudspeakers, he said.
India has become a nation of holidays. Perhaps no other country in the world has these many holidays. Being the secular country, each caste is being given a holiday. Such holidays are detrimental to the development of the country. Let the government declare only one holiday on August 15. The Prime Minister should take a decision in the Parliament, he said.
Cultural thinker Dr Erya Lakshminarayan Alva, Dr H Shantaram, Prof Taltaje Vasanth Kumar, Prof KP Rao, Dr SJ Bhat, Prof Varadesh Hiregange and others were present.
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FIR against 2 women corporators of Congress in Indore over refusal to sing 'Vande Mataram'
Indore (PTI): Police registered a case against two women corporators of the Congress in Madhya Pradesh's Indore on Wednesday on the charge of disturbing communal harmony for their refusal to sing the national song 'Vande Mataram', an official said.
During the Indore Municipal Corporation's budget session on April 8, Congress corporator Fauzia Sheikh Alim refused to sing 'Vande Mataram' citing Islamic beliefs.
Another corporator, Rubina Iqbal Khan, who joined the Congress after winning the civic election as an independent candidate, also supported Fauzia's stance and refused to sing the national song.
Talking to PTI, Additional Deputy Commissioner of Police Amarendra Singh said following a probe into a complaint, a case has been registered against Fauzia and Rubina at the M G Road police station under section 196 of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS) (acts prejudicial to maintenance of harmony between different communities).
The police summoned both the corporators for questioning over the past two days and recorded their statements, he said.
"Finally, finding the case prima facie cognisable, we have registered an FIR and initiated a detailed investigation," Singh said.
