Here are the big stories from Karnataka today
1. Karnataka HC declines to quash UAPA case against associates of US-based Christian missionary organisation Observing that “clandestine funding of extremism is among today’s gravest
1. Karnataka HC declines to quash UAPA case against associates of US-based Christian missionary organisation Observing that “clandestine funding of extremism is among today’s gravest national security threats”, the High Court of Karnataka on Wednesday (July 1, 2026) refused to interfere with a criminal case against six persons linked to U.S.-based Christian missionary The Timothy Initiative (TTI), under Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act, 1967 (UAPA) for illegally using foreign-issued debit cards to withdraw and channel funds in India’s Left wing extremism-affected areas, bypassing regulatory mechanisms. Justice M. Nagaprasanna passed the order on July 1 while dismissing the petitions filed by Micah Mark, Jonathan S. Rajan, Ajit Verghese Mathai, Varghese Chacko, Bablu Kurmi, and Supreme Joy, all associated with the TTI’s India activities. The petitioners had challenged the FIR registered in Bengaluru city on June 11, 2026, against the petitioners and the TTI based on the letter written by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) to the State Police Chief on May 6, requesting registration of criminal case against them.
2. Three killed as retaining wall collapses on building at Naguri in Mangaluru A woman and two girls died when a retaining wall slipped on a building at Garodi-Naguri in Mangaluru on July 1, 2026. Rescue workers, including NDRF and fire and emergency services department personnel, rescued a male and two girls who were also trapped under the debris. They were hospitalised. The retaining wall was next to a residential tile-roof building, which had four rented houses, near Kankanady police station. The wall fell on the rear portion of the houses amid heavy rains at about 4.55 a.m., as a result of which half of the building’s roof collapsed, Police Commissioner Sudheer Kumar Reddy said. Those who died and the ones rescued were from two different families.
3. MES demands SIR forms in Marathi, activist asks if Maharashtra is doing the same for Kannada-speaking people Maharashtra Ekikaran Samiti (MES) has demanded that the Election Commission of India issue enumeration forms in Marathi language for the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls in Karnataka. During a door-to-door visit of SIR staff in Bandur Galli in Belagavi on July 1, MES leader and former member of the Belagavi city corporation Sunil Balekundri refused to accept the enumeration forms in Kannada. He asked the Block Level Officer and his staff to leave his house, and come back with forms in Marathi. He said that, as per linguistic minority rules, the Election Commission and the government of Karnataka were bound to issue forms in Marathi.
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