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Siddaganga Mutt seer Shivakumara Swami (1907-2019)

Shivakumara Swami, the head pontiff of five-centuries-old Siddaganga Mutt in Tumakuru passed away at 11.44 am on Monday.

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Kids, elders bid adieu to ‘buddhi’

A pall of gloom descended on Siddaganga Mutt on Monday after Chief Minister H D Kumaraswamy made an official announcement of the seer’s demise at 2 pm.

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BBMP to install 460 CCTV cams along Bengaluru roads

To ensure security and safety and to keep an eye on garbage blackspots, the Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) has proposed to install around 460 CCTV cameras along 2,000 km of arterial and sub-arterial roads of the civic body’s limits soon.

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BDA blames Varthur Lake fire on grass-cutting villagers

BDA officials are now blaming the nearby villagers harvesting the grass in Varthur lake for the fire that broke out on Sunday afternoon in the water body.

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DH Editorial: Truly, the resort of scoundrels

The Congress, especially, has to prove that a coalition government can work. The Congress-JD(S) arithmetic may look good on paper for the Lok Sabha polls, but it is time they got serious about governance and earned people’s trust.

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MLAs Ganesh, Naik had a history of friction with Singh

The drunken brawl between Vijayanagar MLA Anand Singh and his Kampli counterpart J N Ganesh is the culmination of a long-standing feud between the two, it is said.

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Govt calls off Constitution seminar amid protests

Karnataka abruptly called off a national-level seminar on the Constitution following protests hereon Monday that it was being held during official mourning for the demise of Siddaganga Mutt head pontiff Shivakumara Swami.

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