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Kannada language lessons for illiterate jailbirds

BENGALURU, 30 Oct 2021 [Fik/News Sources]: This Rajyotsava, a literacy plan will be put into action for prisoners and undertrials who don’t know how to read and write Kannada. “We want prisoners who used thumb impression when they walked into jail, to sign the ledger while leaving,” Home Minister Araga Jnanendra said.  Karnataka’s 50 jails have over 16,000 inmates, and the Department of Prisons estimates that around 6,000 don’t know how to read and write Kannada. Officials are doing a survey to get the exact number. Jnanendra said the Home department is involving literate inmates to teach prisoners who are illiterate. “We will pay them for teaching,’’ he said. This will be done under the guidance of the Director-General and other officials, who have framed the curriculum.

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Karnataka to allow only fully vaccinated to enter malls, parks, theatres

Bengaluru, 04 Dec 2021 [Fik/News Sources]: Karnataka Revenue Minister R Ashoka on Friday, December 3, announced that only those who are fully vaccinated will be allowed to public places like malls, theatres, and cinema halls. Parents of school children who are attending physical classes and teachers, principals and staff employees at schools also need to be fully vaccinated before they enter schools, the minister added. “Entry into cinema halls, malls and theatres will only be allowed if a person has taken both doses of the vaccine,” he told reporters after emerging from a meeting with Karnataka Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai. Speaking about several clusters that have been reported in schools and colleges in Karnataka recently, the Minister added, “No cultural gatherings or events will be held in schools and

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Karnataka RSS leader says national flag can be replaced by saffron flag in future

Kalladka, 22 Mar 2022 [Fik/News Sources]: After Karnataka BJP minister KS Eshwarappa’s contentious remarks that the national flag may be replaced with a saffron flag at the Red Fort someday, state RSS leader Kalladka Prabhakar Bhat has come out in support of Eshwarappa’s comments. Addressing a rally on Saturday, March 19, Bhat said that “we should respect the tricolour until it is replaced in the future.” “In the last few days, there were issues about making the saffron flag the national flag. But who knows? One day the saffron flag may replace our national flag,” Bhat said. He also claimed that this “can be done,” since, before the tricolour, we had the British flag and a “green flag with a moon symbol” on it. He also said that the national flag can be replaced if the Hindu

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