Top news developments in Karnataka on August 10, 2023
The Hindu
Top news developments in Karnataka on August 10, 2023
1. Bengaluru-based ISRO releases images of Earth and Moon taken by cameras onboard Chandrayaan-3 spacecraft.
2. Cabinet meeting is scheduled today. Among the topics likely to figure in discussions is constant needling by JD(S) leader H.D. Kumaraswamy on corruption charges.
3. Manipal Hospital is set to launch the Advanced Day Care Chemotherapy Centre today.
4. Narayana Nethralaya will showcase its utilisation of Artificial Intelligence and Biomarkers for conjunctivitis.
5. Bangalore Water Supply and Sewerage Board and Dayananda Sagar College of Engineering will jointly conduct a brainstorming workshop on the theme ‘Sated Bengaluru’ by involving students, faculty, public, RWA and NGOs to take suggestions for the city’s development. The workshop is at Dr. Premachandra Sagar Auditorium, DSCE campus, Kumaraswamy Layout, from 9.30 a.m. to 1.30 p.m.
6. Ministry of Education and AICTE are holding valedictory ceremony of Kavach 2023 Cybersecurity Hackathon on AMC Engineering College premises on Bannerghatta Road from 9 a.m. to 12 noon.
7. Bangalore University held a discussion on the book titled Spectrum of classical literature in Karnataka, written by Kamala Hampana, this morning.
More than 2.6 lakh village and ward volunteers in Andhra Pradesh, once celebrated as the government’s grassroots champions for their crucial role in implementing welfare schemes, are now in a dilemma after learning that their tenure has not been renewed after August 2023 even though they have been paid honoraria till June 2024. Disowned by both YSRCP, which was in power when they were appointed, and the current ruling TDP, which made a poll promise to double their pay, these former volunteers are ruing the day they signed up for the role which they don’t know if even still exists