 | States can declare religious or linguistic communities as a minority: Centre to SCThe Centre said that the Karnataka government has notified Urdu, Telugu, Tamil, Malayalam, Marathi, Tulu, Lamani, Hindi, Konkani, and Gujarati languages as minority languages within the state. |
 | BSY’s charisma, JDS fielding minorities likely to favour BJPAn internal survey conducted by BJP ahead of the bypolls to Hanagal and Sindagi has given the party an edge over opposition parties. |
 | Karnataka government gives in, withdraws circular on dropping cases against minoritiesThe move comes after the earlier circular was slammed vociferously by the BJP, which termed it as a brazen attempt to appease the minorities ahead of the upcoming assembly elections. |
