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SEPTEMBER FOCUS - 2025

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BELTHANGADY UNNATURAL DEATHS QUESTION OF ANSWERS Public in Dakshina Kannada in coastal Karnataka is aware of questionable deaths in and around Belthangady area which were hardly investigated by the police and thus has remained a riddle. These unnatural deaths have been happening since many years. Even now there is one Soujanya murder case going in circles. And comes this report in THE NEW INDIAN EXPRESS, “Man ready to blow lid off series of rapes, murders in Dharmasthala”, sometime late June 2025. According to the report a person who is in the know of series of alleged murders and rapes in Dharmasthala wants to share his knowledge. In association with his two advocates he wants to share his knowledge with the condition that police ensures his and his family’s physical safety. Hope some day truth of those alleged rapes and murders around Belthangady area comes to light and are accounted for. On July 3, 2025, reportedly a complaint was filed with the Dharmasthala police by an unidenti...
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AUGUST MIP - 2025

Maharashtra: WORKPLACE HARASSMENT Physical harassment of women in work places is an issue that needs serious attention of authorities, both police and political leadership. More often than not it’s the political patronage that plays its villain role in the entire sordid happening all over India. We have had this “Me too Movement” in 2018-19 that did expose some powerful politically connected people. But somehow the movement tapered off over a period. However what is a matter of concern is the physical exploitation of women in sports arena, especially in the sports complexes where exercise, training etc take place. It must have been happening ever since these sports complexes came into existence decades ago. But somehow the matter did not become a staple of public consumption, either because women affected tolerated to live another day or just left the sports complex. But ever since prominent female wrestlers decided to assert themselves and with support of male wrestlers of repute joi...
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FOCUS - AUGUST 2025

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INDIA 4th LARGEST ECONOMY: BUT INEQAULITY PERSISTS India which was on the 5th place in the global ranking pushed Japan to 5th place in the recent review of these ranking and is not too far from overtaking Germany which is in the 3rd place. However what is bewildering is Germany is 5th in HDI ranking of UNDP and Japan is in 23rd, in the Very High Human Development Index whereas India is languishing at 130 in the latest ranking by United Nations Development Programme (UNDP). It is true that we were in 133 and improved to 130 since last ranking. “We are a large economy, mostly by virtue of our large population, but we are still a poor country. With a per capita income of $2880/- in dollar terms (IMF – April 2025), we rank 136th in the League of Nations. We are the poorest country among BRICS, we are the poorest in G20 and we have more poor people than any other country in the world”, wrote D. Subbarao, a former Governor of Reserve Bank of India. India may have become a $4.4 trillion...
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FOCUS - JULY 2025

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Presidential Powers vis-à-vis Supreme Court Intervention The problem between the office of the Governor and state governments in India is perhaps as old as the days of independence in 1947. But it became more acute much later due to political compulsions of ruling dispensation at the centre. Governor overstepping his constitutional brief has always been a bone of contention with the state governments, if the state government happens to be of a political outfit not in alignment with the political dispensation at the centre, as it has been happening with the Tamil Nadu government led by DMK with MK Stalin, as the Chief Minister and the Governor RN Ravi, appointed by BJP led NDA government at the centre. Governor Ravi had, in a way, made life difficult for the Tamil Nadu government. He had held back clearance of some 10 legislations since long and was sitting on it. TN government had to take recourse to the options available to it, to break the impasse. So they knocked the door of Supre...
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MIP - JULY 2025

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NEW DELHI: BHARATH RATNA & 2nd HAND CARS In the last week of May 2025, there was this print media report “ANANT NAG RECIEVES PADMA BHUSHAN” with photograph of President Draupadi Murmu handing over the citation to Kannada actor Anant Nag and to actor dancer Shobana, besides Padmashree to musician Ricky Gyan Kej. There were many in public life congratulating the Kannada actor for the award. Ostensibly these awards were given to them for their contribution to the films they were involved in for many years. We all know that those who are in the films, are in the film industry only to promote themselves. It brought them name, fame and fortune. Now this award, a national recognition, the third highest civilian award. Quite frankly it baffles logic. They apparently gave their best performance so that they become acceptable to the audience and in turn to the producers of the films. Every time they do well on the screen their price goes up and up. They end up making fortune. Towards the fa...
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