Forum Purple Run on September 15 in Mangaluru
Mangaluru: Forum Fiza Mall is set to organise the third edition of ‘Forum Purple Run’ on September 15 to raise awareness about Alzheimer across eight Forum Malls in six cities across India. The run will be organised on Sunday at Mangalore, Bangalore, Hyderabad, Mysore, Udaipur and Chennai simultaneously for a single cause.
““Forum Purple Run” mission is to focus first and foremost is to raise awareness about the Alzheimer’s, and to reduce the risk of dementia through the promotion of brain health. Our vision is a world without Alzheimer’s. Alzheimer’s is a progressive and irreversible neurological disorder that impairs basic neurological functioning” an official press release from the organisers added.
The Purple Run offers the running distances of3 Km fun run, 5 kmand 10 km giving each participant an opportunity to contribute to a cause of their choice. The run will begin at 6.am and will conclude at 7.30-8 am, organisers informed
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Gauhati HC issues notice to Assam CM in PILs alleging 'hate speech'
Guwahati (PTI): The Gauhati High Court on Thursday issued a notice to Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma in connection with a bunch of PILs, accusing him of giving "hate speech" and making "communal comments" against the 'Miya' community.
Notices were also issued to the state government and the DGP in connection with three different petitions on the matter.
A division bench comprising Chief Justice Ashutosh Kumar and Justice Arun Dev Choudhury heard the three petitions.
The court fixed March 21 as the next date of hearing.
"The respondents have to reply to the notices before the next date. The court has not issued any other order," Advocate Santanu Borthakur, who assisted the counsels for one of the petitioners, told PTI.
One petition was filed by Assamese litterateur Hiren Gohain, former DGP Harekrishna Deka and senior journalist Paresh Malakar on February 24. The CPI and CPI(M) had also filed separate petitions on February 21, seeking to restrain the CM from making such comments.
The Supreme Court on February 16 refused to entertain petitions seeking action against Sarma over a viral video purportedly showing him taking aim and firing with a rifle at members of a particular community.
'Miya' is originally a pejorative term used for Bengali-speaking Muslims in Assam, and the non-Bengali-speaking people generally identify them as Bangladeshi immigrants. In recent years, activists from the community have started adopting the term as a gesture of defiance.
