Bengaluru: The Karnataka High Court has disposed of the pleas challenging the recommendations of a panel to grant minority status to the Lingayat sect after the Center told that they were considered as Hindus since the first census in 1871. A division bench of Chief Justice Dinesh Maheshwari and justice S[Read More…]
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Popular Lingayat seer Siddalinga passes away in Karnataka
Bengaluru: Karnataka’s popular Lingayat seer Siddalinga Swami passed away at Gadag in the state’s northwest region, a member of his Thontadarya Mutt said on Saturday. He was 69. “Doctors at a private hospital declared Swamiji dead today (Saturday) morning after a massive cardiac arrest,” the member told reporters at Gadag,[Read More…]