Top news developments in Karnataka on April 19, 2024
The Hindu
Top news developments in Karnataka on April 19, 2024
1. A day after the murder of Neha Hiremath, daughter of Congress councillor of Hubballi-Dharwad Municipal Corporation Niranjan Hiremath, on the campus of her college in Hubballi on Thursday, ABVP and other organisations aligned to Hindutva outfits are continuing their protests. They had last night staged an agitation in front of the Vidyanagar Police Station urging the police to hand over the accused to them leading to an argument. ABVP has called for a bandh in the college today.
2. A group of Africans allegedly assaulted sleuths from the Central Crime Branch (CCB), Bengaluru City Police who were in the process of arresting one of them for drug peddling and the local police personnel, who came to rescue them, in Mavallipura, near Rajanakunte on the outskirts of the city on Thursday night.
3. BJP leader Malikayya Guttedar is expected to join Congress today.
4. Chief Minister Siddaramaiah and Deputy CM D.K. Shivakumar are campaigning in Hassan Lok Sabha constituency today. Union Minister of State for External Affairs and Culture Meenakshi Lekhi and BJP leader Sumalatha Ambareesh will address a convention of women organised by BJP at Uppor in Udupi district. Gaurav Bhatia, BJP national spokesperson and Supreme Court advocate, will address a convention of advocates in Mangaluru.
5. Voice of the Nation will release report cards for all 28 Lok Sabha MPs from Karnataka. Parakala Prabhakara, economist, Salil Shetty, former head, Amnesty International, Aakar Patel, author, are among those who will participate in the event in Bengaluru today.
6. Department of Mass Communication and Journalism, Bengaluru City University, and Karnataka Union of Working Journalists are jointly organising a special lecture and interaction on “Media and Journalists in a Democratic system” by Sudheendra Kulkarni, senior journalist and social activist.
7. Spaceport SARABHAI launches its second report on “Financial risk coverage of India’s commercial space launch industry: Need for developing insurance and reinsurance capabilities” by Eshaan Bansal, S2 Young Graduate, Research Fellow and Senior Associate, National Payments Corporation of India, on CSIR-NAL Campus, from 4 p.m. to 6 p.m.
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A Mathematics teacher of a government higher secondary school in Dharmapuri has been arrested under the POCSO Act on charges of sexually harassing girls in the classroom.
Akkarai Sisters will perform in Bengaluru this weekend as part of the second edition of the Nada Sambhrama concert series
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The Madras High Court has issued a slew of directions to the trial courts for the speedy disposal of cheque bounce cases after finding that cases under Section 138 of the Negotiable Instruments (NI) Act of 1881 had been pending for years.
Transport Minister K.B. Ganesh Kumar addresses pedestrian safety, reckless drivers, and traffic congestion issues in the State.
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