last updated at 4.15 pm 18 July 2010 The BANDH has been total all commercial establishments in the city are shut. Some shops in residential areas are open. MES, Shiv Sena, Shiv Prathisthan, VHP, Swarajya, MNS and many others together have called for a Belgaum Bandh today, Sunday 18 July after a saffron flag was burnt by […]
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We are Belgaumites
Belgaum is in the news again and the entire print media including regional have written on the Centre’s affidavit on the Border issue. The Marathi Media showcased its side while the Kannada its side. The English media took a fifty fifty stand. But my question to all residents of Belgaum, (we hope we can call […]
Vice President goof up as Belgaum in Maharashtra
India’s Vice-President Hamid Ansari has committed a blunder by including the Belgaum district in Maharashtra. While the BJP Leaders in Karnataka alleged that the Vice-President has done in deliberately for raking up the boundary dispute with Maharashtra by mentioning that Belgaum is in the Maharashtra State in his letter dated January 11, 2010, Karnataka writers […]
Border row: Gods in a dilemma
The Deccan Chronicle has been writing about Belgaum in a bit different way. Here is one more story from their stable. Finding no solution in the courts or elsewhere to the border dispute between Maharashtra and Karntaka, the pro-Maratha lobby in Belgaum feels it has been left with no other option but to seek divine […]
Maharashtra open for out-of-court settlement of border dispute
Maharashtra Chief Minister Ashok Chavan on Thursday said that his government was open to an out-of-court settlement on the long-pending boundary dispute with Karnataka. Mr. Chavan was speaking at the Legislative Assembly in reply to the motion of thanks to the Governor for his address to the joint session of the state legislature; […]