Articles for Billava

Mangaluru Lok Sabha Election: Karnataka's Ancient Port City Witnesses Yet Another Hindutva vs Congress Fight
7 months, 4 weeks ago

Mangaluru Lok Sabha Election: Karnataka's Ancient Port City Witnesses Yet Another Hindutva vs Congress Fight

News 18  

Perhaps Mangaluru is the only city in the world, which has so many names in so many languages. In his 1990 book, In An Antique Land, renowned writer Amitav Ghosh writes about Mangalore’s Jewish trader Abraham Ben Yiju who lived there 900 years ago. Ibn Battuta, the Moroccan traveller, who had visited the place in the early 14th century, writes …

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Yediyurappa felicitated in Sagar
9 months, 2 weeks ago

Yediyurappa felicitated in Sagar

The Hindu  

Leaders of the Idiga, Billava and Deevaru castes felicitated former Chief Minister B.S. Hartal Halappa, former Minister and BJP State vice president, addressing the gathering, said that the programme was organised to show respect to the former CM. Mr. Halappa also said the Idiga, Deevaru, Billava and other sub-castes had benefited immensely under Yediyurappa’s rule. Kota Srinivas Poojari, Leader of …

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Mangaluru City Corporation Budget: BJP tries to woo Billava votes again by reserving ₹15,000 each to all Narayana Guru Mandiras in Mangaluru
9 months, 3 weeks ago

Mangaluru City Corporation Budget: BJP tries to woo Billava votes again by reserving ₹15,000 each to all Narayana Guru Mandiras in Mangaluru

The Hindu  

With the five-year term of the Mangaluru City Corporation council, led by the BJP, set to end in a year from now and the Lok Sabha elections around the corner, the saffron party has tried to woo Billava votes by reserving ₹15,000 each to all Narayana Guru Mandiras in its jurisdiction in the Budget for 2024-25 on Tuesday. While presenting …

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Karnataka News: ’I know how to bring down…’, Congress leader on Siddaramaiah
1 year, 5 months ago

Karnataka News: ’I know how to bring down…’, Congress leader on Siddaramaiah

Live Mint  

An odd development occurred in Karnataka Congress as Legislative Council Member BK Hariprasad challenged Karnataka Chief Minister and Congress leader Siddaramaiah, stating that he knew ‘how to make or bring the chief minister down’. The MLC, who is said to be sulking for sometime now over not being inducted into Karnataka cabinet, was speaking at a meeting of Ediga, Billava, …

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Ground Zero | Three murders in Karnataka’s communal cauldron
2 years, 4 months ago

Ground Zero | Three murders in Karnataka’s communal cauldron

The Hindu  

On July 27, as his car drove into Nettaru, a remote hamlet in Dakshina Kannada district of Karnataka, Nalin Kumar Kateel, the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party’s State chief, met with a hostile reception. Even Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai was gheraoed and BJP workers openly called for a “Yogi Adityanath model of leadership” for the State, pushing him to say he …

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