Tipu Sultan Controversy

The author-director of the controversial Kannada play 'Tipu Nijakanasugalu' (Real dreams of Tipu) has lodged a complaint with police alleging that he has received death threats.

Shiv Sena leader Sanjay Raut on Thursday asked the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) whether it will ask President Ram Nath Kovind to resign for having praised Tipu Sultan as a 'historical warrior' and 'freedom fighter' in the Karnataka Assembly in 2017.

Karnataka BJP has distanced itself from the newly nominated party MLC AH Vishwanath's comments, hailing the controversial 18th century Mysuru ruler Tipu Sultan, and said the remarks are personal and made in individual capacity.

In a statement contrary to the party's stand, newly nominated Karnataka BJP MLC AH Vishwanath on Wednesday hailed controversial 18th century Mysuru ruler Tipu Sultan as a "son of this soil" who fought against the British for freedom.

The Karnataka government on Wednesday put on hold a controversial proposal to drop certain chapters, including on Islam, Christianity, Tipu Sultan and his father Hyder Ali, from social science textbooks to reduce the 2020-21 syllabi for students in classes 1-10.

The chapter on controversial 18th century Mysore ruler Tipu Sultan and his father Haider Ali are among those that have been dropped from the class 7 social science textbook, following the Karnataka government's decision to reduce the 2020-21 syllabi due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Tipu Sultan was the 18th-century Mysore ruler who is popularly known as the Tiger of Mysore and Tipu Sahib. The Karnataka government in 2015, led by former Congress Chief Minister Siddaramaiah, decided to celebrate Tipu Sultan's birth anniversary on November 20 as Tipu Jayanti - describing the ruler as one of the earliest freedom fighters. Tipu Ja...

Tipu Sultan Jayanti or birth anniversary is marked on November 10 every year. He fought several wars against the Marathas and the British and came out victorious

After the BJP victory in Gujarat assembly elections, Yogi Adityanath, one of the party's top drawer campaigners, set the tone for the assembly polls in Karnataka that will be held early next year. The saffron-robed chief minister of Uttar Pradesh flagged off the BJP's Parivartana Yatra in North Karnataka's Hubbali on Thursday with a scathing attack...

Tipu Sultan is remembered for many technological and administrative innovations.

The descendants of Tipu Sultan here are considering legal action against Union Minister Anantkumar Hegde for his alleged "derogatory" comments against the 18th century Mysore ruler.

Kolkata's Imam Noorur Barkati -- known for his controversial fatwas or religious decrees and closeness to Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee -- was sacked from his post at the Tipu Sultan Mosque today.

A prominent Muslim cleric in the West Bengal capital Kolkata's Tipu Sultan Mosque who makes headlines for controversial fatwas, or religious decrees, including one recently targeting PM Narendra Modi faced protests earlier this week. On home turf.

The Karnataka government's controversial plan to celebrate the birth anniversary of Tipu Sultan is a policy decision, the Karnataka High Court has said, turning down a petition that had challenged the decision. The verdict came a day after the court's comment that Tipu Sultan was not a freedom fighter but a monarch who was merely safeguarding his o...

Armed security outside a writer's house, protests on the street, calls for shutdowns - the fallout of the Karnataka government's decision to officially celebrate Tipu Sultan's birthday is still being felt in the state.

The author-director of the controversial Kannada play 'Tipu Nijakanasugalu' (Real dreams of Tipu) has lodged a complaint with police alleging that he has received death threats.

Shiv Sena leader Sanjay Raut on Thursday asked the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) whether it will ask President Ram Nath Kovind to resign for having praised Tipu Sultan as a 'historical warrior' and 'freedom fighter' in the Karnataka Assembly in 2017.

Karnataka BJP has distanced itself from the newly nominated party MLC AH Vishwanath's comments, hailing the controversial 18th century Mysuru ruler Tipu Sultan, and said the remarks are personal and made in individual capacity.

In a statement contrary to the party's stand, newly nominated Karnataka BJP MLC AH Vishwanath on Wednesday hailed controversial 18th century Mysuru ruler Tipu Sultan as a "son of this soil" who fought against the British for freedom.

The Karnataka government on Wednesday put on hold a controversial proposal to drop certain chapters, including on Islam, Christianity, Tipu Sultan and his father Hyder Ali, from social science textbooks to reduce the 2020-21 syllabi for students in classes 1-10.

The chapter on controversial 18th century Mysore ruler Tipu Sultan and his father Haider Ali are among those that have been dropped from the class 7 social science textbook, following the Karnataka government's decision to reduce the 2020-21 syllabi due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Tipu Sultan was the 18th-century Mysore ruler who is popularly known as the Tiger of Mysore and Tipu Sahib. The Karnataka government in 2015, led by former Congress Chief Minister Siddaramaiah, decided to celebrate Tipu Sultan's birth anniversary on November 20 as Tipu Jayanti - describing the ruler as one of the earliest freedom fighters. Tipu Ja...

Tipu Sultan Jayanti or birth anniversary is marked on November 10 every year. He fought several wars against the Marathas and the British and came out victorious

After the BJP victory in Gujarat assembly elections, Yogi Adityanath, one of the party's top drawer campaigners, set the tone for the assembly polls in Karnataka that will be held early next year. The saffron-robed chief minister of Uttar Pradesh flagged off the BJP's Parivartana Yatra in North Karnataka's Hubbali on Thursday with a scathing attack...

Tipu Sultan is remembered for many technological and administrative innovations.

The descendants of Tipu Sultan here are considering legal action against Union Minister Anantkumar Hegde for his alleged "derogatory" comments against the 18th century Mysore ruler.

Kolkata's Imam Noorur Barkati -- known for his controversial fatwas or religious decrees and closeness to Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee -- was sacked from his post at the Tipu Sultan Mosque today.

A prominent Muslim cleric in the West Bengal capital Kolkata's Tipu Sultan Mosque who makes headlines for controversial fatwas, or religious decrees, including one recently targeting PM Narendra Modi faced protests earlier this week. On home turf.

The Karnataka government's controversial plan to celebrate the birth anniversary of Tipu Sultan is a policy decision, the Karnataka High Court has said, turning down a petition that had challenged the decision. The verdict came a day after the court's comment that Tipu Sultan was not a freedom fighter but a monarch who was merely safeguarding his o...

Armed security outside a writer's house, protests on the street, calls for shutdowns - the fallout of the Karnataka government's decision to officially celebrate Tipu Sultan's birthday is still being felt in the state.