Top news developments in Karnataka on April 28, 2022
The Hindu
Here are the key news developments to watch out for from Karnataka today
1. Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai, who is touring north Karnataka districts, will lay the foundation stone for building a memorial for Jagannath Rao Joshi, RSS leader, in Belagavi.
2. The scam related to recruitment of police sub-inspectors is getting bigger by the day, with ADGP recruitment transferred yesterday. More people are expected to be questioned today, while the main accused in the case is still absconding.
3. Twitter posts from various quarters continue to pour in over actor Ajay Devgn statement on Hindi as “national language”.
4. Minister of Housing and Infrastructure Development V. Somanna will inspect multi-storey building constructed by Karnataka Housing Board at Kengeri, Bandematha, and listen to the residents’ concerns.
5. Bangalore University is holding a national conference on advances in microbial biotechnology, current trends and future prospects. Former Vice Chancellor of Gulbarga University Prof. S.R. Niranjan will be the chief guest, at Venkatagiri Gowda Auditorium, Jnana Bharathi campus.
6. Dr. M.K. Ramesh, Vice Chancellor of Rajiv Gandhi University of Health Sciences, will give details on 24th annual convocation of RGUHS.
1. Minister for Industries Murugesh Nirani to inaugurate a campaign to promote entrepreneurship among BE graduates. This is part of a series of such drives being held across Karnataka. The government hopes to convert at least 2,000 ‘job seekers’ to ‘job providers’ by the end of the drive.
Senior BJP leader and former Telangana Governor Tamilisai Soundararajan on Saturday (November 23, 2024) said the landslide victory of the Mahayuti alliance in the Maharashtra Assembly election was historic, and that it reflected people’s mindset across the country. She added that the DMK would be unseated from power in the 2026 Assembly election in Tamil Nadu and that the BJP would be the reason for it.