ban sought:Members of Kadamba Sainya seeking a permanent ban on screening of Tamil movies and newspapers in Karnataka, in Mandya on Monday. Members of the Kadamba Sainya, a Kannada organisation, have urged the State government to impose a permanent ban on screening of Tamil movies in the State following the escalation of Cauvery water sharing crisis between Karnataka and neighbouring Tamil Nadu. Members of the organisation, who staged a demonstration near Sir M. Visvesvaraya Statue on the Bengaluru-Mysuru highway here on Monday, also demanded that the government impose a blanket ban on the sale and circulation of Tamil newspapers and periodicals. Therefore, the State government should impose a ban on screening of Tamil movies, they demanded. The agitators also burnt posters of Tamil movies and newspapers.

Source: The Hindu October 18, 2016 00:10 UTC