K'taka: District officers take dalits to temple 
E Vijaya and NV Natesh, both district officers at Karnataka's Arakare village, recently collected 25 dalits and took them to the village's Kariyamma temple, where entry of dalits has been banned by the upper castes. The move came after members of the Madiga community filed a complaint with the district administration stating that they were forbidden from  entering the temple. 