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Karnataka Today newsletter: Bulk purchase of gold card, tickets for Mysuru Dasara curbed, and more

Even five days after they went up for sale, Dasara gold cards and tickets for Jamboo Savari and Torchlight Parade in Mysuru are still available online, indicating that the steps taken to prevent bulk ticket purchases (for illegal sale at a higher price in the black market) have worked.

Normally, the gold cards used to get sold out as soon as they went on sale. It was the same even in the case of tickets for Jamboo Savari and Torchlight Parade. Sources said those buying tickets in bulk were allegedly selling them in the black. This year, the online sale began on September 26, but more than 1,000 gold cards and over 2,000 tickets are still available for purchase.

The Karnataka High Court on September 30, 2024, stayed the investigation into the First Information Report (FIR) filed against Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman and others for allegedly “extorting” thousands of crores of rupees from companies by misusing the electoral bond scheme and using the agencies like the Enforcement Directorate (ED).

Justice M. Nagaprasanna passed the interim order on a petition filed by Nalin Kumar Kateel, former BJP state unit president, who has been arraigned as accused number 4 in the FIR. The Bengaluru police had filed an FIR on September 28 based a direction given by a magistrate court, which had acted on a private complaint filed Adarsh R. Iyer, co-president of Janaadhikaara Sangharsha Parishath (JSP).

Deputy Chief Minister D.K. Shivakumar has said the State Government will organise ‘Gandhi Nadige’ (Gandhi march) to mark the centenary of Mahatma Gandhi taking over as president of the Indian National Congress session, on October 2, his birth anniversary.

The 39th session of the Indian National Congress held at Belagavi in 1924 was the only Congress session presided over by Mahatma Gandhi. The Congress party has a one-year programme starting on October 2, 2024. Funds have been allocated for the programme.

The Bangalore Development Authority (BDA) has begun serving notices to owners of 1,810 acres of land, notified way back in 2007 for the main carriageway of the Peripheral Ring Road, now renamed Bengaluru Business Corridor (BBC). This is the most concrete step taken by the BDA towards implementing the project in these many years.