News Papers like Vartha Bharati, upholding Constitutional ethos are need of the hour: Dr. KP Ashwini

Vartha Bharati's 20th annual special issue released

Vartha Bharati | 31-12-2022 | 13:28:00 IST

Bengaluru: The 20th special annual edition of Vartha Bharathi was released on Saturday morning by Dr K P Ashwini from Benagluru, the first Asian expert selected to the United Nations Human Rights Council.

Addressing the program held at the Vartha Bharati office in the city, Dr Ashwini lauded the efforts of Vartha Bharati in upholding Constitutional ethos by giving priority to equality, liberty, fraternity and harmony.

“It is extremely important at the current juncture that print media plays a very responsible role in terms of making people conscious. Developing social consciousness and political consciousness particularly the youth is a major responsibility of the print media. Media is not an easy challenge but a huge ocean that one has to navigate through, with regard to finances and establishment support among other things,” she said.

“I believe that Vartha Bharati has tried to navigate all these challenges and has emerged as one of the prominent newspapers with genuine concern towards marginalized communities, especially the Adivasi, the Dalit and the minority communities. When we look at the variety of issues that have been focused on, including gender-related matters, policy-making, international, national and state news, we find that Vartha Bharati is not limited to our nation or our state. People of many other countries too read Vartha Bharathi and they have an extreme positive and progressive opinion about the newspaper,” Dr Ashwini added.

“It is the need of the hour to have a newspaper like Vartha Bharathi, which reflects the most fundamentals of the Indian Constitution,” she stressed.

“I wish a very great success to Vartha Bharati in the coming years,” she said, adding that it was an honour for her to release the 20th annual edition of the journal.

Vartha Bharati editor-in-chief Abdussalam Puthige, retired officer Prasanna Kumar, director of Vartha Bharati S M Ali, columnist Girish Kote, entrepreneur Sadique Puthige, Bengaluru bureau chief Prakash C Ramajogihalli and others attended the program.

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Digital-only toll collection implemented at national highway fee plazas

11-04-2026 ¦ 11-04-2026 IST

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New Delhi ( PTI): All user fee payments at National Highway toll plazas across the country are being processed exclusively through digital modes with FASTag or Unified Payments Interface (UPI) from Saturday, according to an official statement.

The move is a significant step towards strengthening efficiency and transparency in toll collection.

However, the statement said, this transition has not been implemented in the states of Tamil Nadu, Kerala, Assam and West Bengal, as well as the Union Territory of Puducherry, in view of the Model Code of Conduct currently in force due to ongoing assembly polls.