With Dr Rajkumar's first death anniversary on April 12, ardent fans of the actor still haven't come to terms with his absence.
The Karnataka high court on Tuesday strongly criticised actor and filmmaker Kamal Haasan for his recent remark suggesting that "Kannada was born out of Tamil", and observed that a "single apology could have resolved the situation."
Kannada thespian Rajkumar is dead, following a cardiac arrest.
Two-time chief minister and five-time MLA Janata Dal-Secular leader H D Kumaraswamy has once again demonstrated his political acumen by bagging a seat in the union council of ministers, despite his party joining the Bharatiya Janata Party-led National Democratic Alliance just last year.
The film has been given a makeover at a cost of Rs 2 crore.
However, he claimed that this was a fight to save the party and its ideology and to make Narendra Modi Prime Minister once again.
'I have been asking whether the chief minister (N Biren Singh) is in charge of the situation in Manipur.' 'Law and order is a state subject and chief minister is a Constitutional authority. Why did he follow the diktat, if at all there is a diktat from the Union government?'
Puneeth Rajkumar was never trained in classical music, but he sang songs for his movies from the time he was a toddler!
Rajinikanth traveled to Bengaluru to attend the Karnataka Ratna Award ceremony on Tuesday, November 1, which honoured the late Kannada actor Puneeth Rajkumar.
Several Union ministers, including Health Minister Dr Harsh Vardhan, Education Minister Ramesh Pokhriyal Nishank and Labour Minister Santosh Gangwar resigned.
Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai, who had seen Puneeth since his childhood, became emotional and was seen kissing his forehead before the last rites.
'I felt insulted, very hurt, that Indian cinema meant only Hindi cinema.'
The sheer unexpectedness of life and death are hard to comprehend, and the doctors who treated Puneeth are just hoping that his fans will come to terms with that reality soon.
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His passing away will not mean just the fading of a star, but the end of an era for five generations, and the loss of the next generation denied the opportunity of witnessing a magnum opus with Rajakumar as the lead.
Former Karnataka chief minister B S Yeddyurappa will be up against Geetha Shivrajkumar, the daughter-in-law of actor Dr Rajkumar and daughter of former chief minister S Bangarappa. Vicky Nanjappa reports
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Well-known Kannada actor Puneeth Rajkumar died in Bangalore on Friday, October 29, following a heart attack, hospital sources said.
The four-member committee will be headed by Prasar Bharati CEO Shashi S Vempati. The Ministry of Information and Broadcasting said the present guidelines issued by it in 2014 on Television Rating agencies in India were notified after detailed deliberations by the Parliamentary Committee, Committee on Television Rating Points (TRP) constituted by the ministry and recommendations of the Telecom Regulatory Authority etc.
'I know we will keep meeting, Appu, on gym floors that I visit, every time I listen to a song of yours and in that grin that I will always carry in my memory.'
'I was invited to join the BJP, and I felt respected when they called me.'
Fans turn violent in an effort to pay respects to Dr Rajkumar. Karnataka declares two-day state mourning.
Kumara Rama, which was the dream project of Dr Rajkumar, will be made by his son.
As many as 742 people, including two involved in the murder of a constable, have been arrested in connection with the violence following the death of matinee idol Rajkumar, police said on Wednesday.
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Despite his Janata Dal-Secular finishing a poor third in the electoral battlefield, the 58-year-old Vokkaliga leader wore the crown.
Taking exception to Health Minister Harsh Vardhan not mentioning the death of healthcare workers due to Covid-19 in his statement in Parliament, the Indian Medical Association has published a list of 382 doctors who died due to the viral disease and demanded that they be treated as "martyrs".
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