Mangaluru: BIT, BEADS mark world green building week with Green Walkathon
Mangaluru: To mark the 'World Green Building Week' Bearys Institute of Technology (BIT) and Bearys Enviro-Architecture Design School (BEADS) on Sunday organised a 'Green Walkathon' here. The walkathon was flagged off by Mangaluru South MLA Vaedavyas Kamath at Nehru Maidan.
Hundreds of students participated in the Walkathon which passed through the main routes of the city.
Speaking at the flagging off ceremony, Kamath stressed upon making Mangaluru plastic free city and urged the students to lead the initiative to make the city clean and green.
At the end of the Walkathon at Karavali Utsav ground at Mangala Stadium, D. B Mehta, Chairman IGBC, Mangaluru Chapter, spoke about the role of youth in the success of Swachh Bharat Campaign launched by PM Narendra Modi.
Mehta further said "The world is facing threat from climate change, if we don't take up the responsibility we will lose it. And when the future generations will ask us why we failed to save the earth, we will not be able to answer them".
Dr. P Mahabaleswarappa, Principal, BIT, Ar. Ashok LP Mendonca, Principal BEADS, Dr. Aziz Mustafa, Principal, BIT Polytechnic, Media coordinator Abdullah Gubbi, Dr. Mustafa Bastikodi, HOD EC, and others were present during the event.
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Congress leader Harish Rawat files FIR against BJP over 'misinformation' campaign against him
Dehradun (PTI) Senior Congress leader and former Uttarakhand chief minister Harish Rawat on Tuesday filed a police complaint here against the alleged misinformation campaign being carried out against him by BJP on social media.
Rawat, who reached the Nehru Colony police station with his supporters, handed over a written complaint along with a pen drive and other evidence to the police.
Based on this, an FIR was registered under relevant sections of the Information Technology (Amendment) Act, 2008 and relevant sections of law.
After filing the FIR, Rawat alleged that the police took four hours to register his complaint. He added that if it takes so long for a former CM to file an FIR, one can easily imagine the plight of a common man.
"Finally, after four hours, the police registered the FIR with trembling hands. Their hands were trembling because we have accused the BJP president and his associates, with factual evidence, of misusing AI to tarnish our and our party's image and trying to disrupt social harmony by targeting a particular community," Rawat said.
He expressed hope that after the registration of the FIR, the police would bring the culprits to justice.
Rawat also said, "Just imagine, if the police take so much time to register an FIR of a former CM, what will be the condition of a common man in this state?"
Later, he also handed over a copy of the FIR to the Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP) of Dehradun and the SSP of the Special Task Force. Rawat also said that he would meet the District Magistrate of Dehradun and the State Election Officer with his complaint on Wednesday.
Recently, an AI-generated reel was uploaded on the official social media page of the BJP, which portrayed Rawat as a supporter of appeasement.
In the reel, a Congress leader is heard saying, "I take refuge in Muslims, I take refuge in dargahs (shrines), I take refuge in love jihad." The subsequent images show the construction of a dargah and some people smiling and talking about turning Devbhoomi (the land of gods) into a land of dargahs.
At the end of the reel, Chief Minister Pushkar Singh Dhami is seen walking with police forces and bulldozers.
Rawat also claimed that another AI-generated video was uploaded from a 'fake' BJP platform, depicting him as a 'traitorous Pakistani agent' engaged in espionage. However, the BJP has denied any connection to this video.
