Coimbatore police launches investigation into viral 'Biryani Jihad' fake news
Coimbatore: Several cases have been registered against Twitter handles on Sunday after they were found circulating fake news on Twitter, that restaurants owned by Muslims were adding contraceptive pills to biryani and were doing Biryani Jihad.
As per reports, there was fake news doing rounds on the micro-blogging site that Muslims restaurants were adding contraceptive pills to biryani in order to reduce the population of Hindus. Reports on Twitter claimed that Muslim restaurant owners were arrested for allegedly offering Hindus biryani mixed with contraceptive pills, while serving regular biryani to Muslim customers.
In response to the viral posts, Coimbatore city cyber-crime police said that an FIR has been registered and a trap has been laid to trace the accused.
Meanwhile, a Twitter user posted, "Biryani jihad in Coimbatore. It is learnt that the biryani served to the Hindu pilgrims contains pills and the biryani given to Muslims is ordinary biryani. These medications affect the sexual potency of those who eat it. This jihad is being carried out to change the population."
But the fact is that no medicine of this kind will be effective, and contraceptive pills can only work when taken in specific dosages.
Such news was circulated in Sri Lanka in 2019 and in Chennai in April 2022.
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Farmers in Chincholi demand better MSP, accuse sugar factory owners of not fulfilling assurance
Kalaburagi: Members of the Karnataka Prantha Raitha Sangha (KPRS) and the Taluk Raitha Hitarakshana Samiti protested outside the Siddasiri Ethanol Power Unit in Chincholi, demanding appropriate minimum support price (MSP) to sugarcane farmers in Chincholi.
Pointing out that it was decided at the meeting chaired by District In-charge Minister Priyank Kharge on November 15 to provide farmers an MSP of Rs 2,950 per tonne of sugarcane with an additional Rs 50 as support price from sugar factory owners, the protesting farmers also demanded that the decision be implemented.
“The Siddasiri sugar factory owner has violated the agreement by paying each farmer only Rs 2,550,” the farmers have alleged.
President of the KPRS Kalaburagi District Unit Sharanabasappa Mamashetti said, “When he opened the factory, legislator Basanagouda Patil Yatnal had assured that the factory would pay farmers in Kalaburagi an additional Rs 100, but has failed to live up to the word.”
The protesting farmers have demanded that the authorities concerned give priority to sugarcane farmers of Chincholi and Kalagi taluks to support the sugarcane crop. “Also, the factories should employ local youngsters and due measures should be taken to ensure the safety of the drivers of sugarcane transport vehicles,” they said.
They also handed their memorandum to Tahsildar Subbanna Jamakhandi and Power Ethanol Unit General Manager Dayananda Banagara.
The Tahsildar has assured that a meeting with the sugar factory owners would be held to discuss the issues raised by the farmers.
