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Mehboob and Noor conduct adopted son’s wedding as per Hindu customs
Hyderabad: In times of communal tensions across India, a Muslim couple, Mehboob Hasan Naikwadi and Noor Jahan, organised the wedding of their son Somashekar Pujeri with Poonam as per Hindu rituals, in…
- Bangalore
Lingayat legislators’ meet not show of strength: Minister MB Patil
Bengaluru: Karnataka Minister MB Patil on Thursday, February 5, said the recent meeting of the Lingayat Congress legislators was not a show of strength, but it was for the welfare of the…
- Bangalore
Demand for separate religion status for Lingayats resurfaces
Bengaluru: The demand to accord a separate religion status for Lingayats resurfaced on Sunday with a gathering of the community here under the leadership of several of its seers. 5 resolutions passed…
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Trouble for BJP as Lingayat seer announces contest against Union min
Bengaluru: Fakira Dingaleshwar Swami of Shirahatti Fakkireshwar Math, a prominent Veerashaiva Lingayat seer, on Monday said he has decided to contest as an independent candidate from Dharwad segment in the upcoming Lok…
- India
Some Lingayat seers ask BJP to change its Dharwad LS candidate Joshi
Hubballi: A few Lingayat seers in the region met here on Wednesday and asked the BJP central leadership to change the party’s Dharwad Lok Sabha candidate Prahlad Joshi, Fakira Dingaleshwar Swamiji of…
- Bangalore
Karnataka caste census: Veerashaiva-Lingayats, Vokkaligas raise objection to report
Bengaluru: A day after Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah accepted the socio-economic and education survey report, popularly known as the “caste census”, trouble seems to be mounting for the Congress government with dominant…
- Bangalore
After Lingayat event, major pro-caste census rally to be held in Karnataka city
Bengaluru: After Lingayat convention, the oppressed classes and minorities have decided to hold a massive rally in Chitradurga city in Karnataka to counter the influential castes ‘pressurising’ the government not to accept…
- Bangalore
Under Lingayat, Vokkaliga pressure, Karnataka Cong treads cautiously
Bengaluru: Following the Bihar government making its caste census report public, Karnataka’s Congress government is under pressure to accept the state’s caste census report pending for years. However, the government led by…
