News Papers like Vartha Bharati, upholding Constitutional ethos are need of the hour: Dr. KP Ashwini
Vartha Bharati's 20th annual special issue released
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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Drug peddler's property worth Rs 1 crore attached in Srinagar
Srinagar (PTI): Property worth Rs 1 crore belonging to a notorious drug peddler was on Saturday attached in Jammu and Kashmir's Srinagar, police said.
A double-storey house on eight marlas of land situated at Wantpora Eidgah, belonging to Basit Bilal Dar, a notorious drug peddler, valued at approximately Rs 1 crore, a police spokesperson said.
He said Dar is involved in two cases registered under various sections of the NDPS Act.
During investigation, it was established that the accused had acquired the said property through illicit proceeds generated from drug trafficking activities, the spokesperson said.
Consequently, the property was attached under the provisions of the NDPS Act. The attachment proceedings were conducted in the presence of the two independent witnesses, strictly in accordance with the prescribed legal procedures, he said.
As per the attachment order, the owner has been restrained from selling, leasing, transferring, altering, or creating any third-party interest in the property till further orders, the spokesperson added.
