Poet Jaraganahalli Shivshankar dies of COVID
Bengaluru: Famous regional poet, thinker, vice president of the Sharana Sahitya Parishad, Jaraganahalli Shivshanker (72), passed away on Wednesday morning. He had contracted COVID a few days ago and was receiving treatment in hospital, it is learned. However, the treatment proved to be ineffective, as he passed away from the disease.
Shivshanker who was born on September 8th of 1949 in Jaraganahalli, had obtained a degree in commerce. Literature was his loved field. Due to this very reason, he had opted for voluntary retirement from his work as a bank employee and busied himself in literary activities. While serving as the Honorary Secretary of the Kannada Sahitya Parishad, he has written and published more than 1000 micro poems.
His anthologies of poems like ‘Male’, ‘Aalikallu’, and ‘Devara Neralu’ are the fruits of his literary labour. The anthology of his micro poems, ‘Shubhangi Jhari’, has been translated to Urdu, English, Hindi, Tamil, Telugu, and Gujarati languages.
He has received various awards and accolades for his literary work including Karnataka Rajyotsava Award, Dinakara Desai Literary Award, and Suvarna Karnataka Bhushan Award among many others.
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Allahabad HC dismisses petition seeking permission to mount loudspeaker on mosque
Prayagraj, Jan 24 (PTI): The Allahabad High Court on Wednesday dismissed a writ petition seeking direction to the state authorities to permit the mounting of loudspeakers on a Masjid.
The court observed that the religious places were for offering prayers, therefore the use of loudspeakers was not a matter of right.
Dismissing the writ petition filed by Pilibhit-resident Mukhtiyar Ahmad, a two judge-bench, comprising Justice Ashwani Kumar Mishra and Justice Donadi Ramesh, observed, "Religious places are for offering prayers to the divinity and use of loudspeakers cannot be claimed as a matter of right, particularly when often such use of loudspeakers create nuisance for the residents".
At the outset, the state counsel objected to the maintainability of the writ on the grounds that the petitioner was neither a mutawalli, nor did the mosque belong to him.
The court also noted that the petitioner did not have locus to file the writ petition.
The term 'locus' is a legal concept that refers to the right of a person or entity to participate in a legal proceeding or bring a lawsuit.
