Top news developments in Karnataka on June 18, 2024
The Hindu
Top news developments in Karnataka on June 18, 2024
1. Union Steel and Heavy Industries Minister H. D. Kumaraswamy will meet officials of Kudremukh Iron Ore Company today in Bengaluru.
2. Janata Dal (S) to lay a siege to Vidhana Soudha to protest against hike in prices of petrol and diesel.
3. Chief Minister Siddaramaiah to review progress of Departments of ST Welfare and Youth Empowerment & Sports.
4. St. John’s National Academy of Health Sciences, Bengaluru, is organising free angioplasty and angiography camp today. Minister for Transport and Muzrai Ramalinga Reddy will be the chief guest. The programme will be held at the Main OPD Block, Ground Floor, St. John’s Medical College Hospital, Koramangala, at 9 a.m.
5. Bangalore International Centre is holding a talk on India’s Defence and Security imperatives by Ambassador Sujan R. Chinoy and Vikram Limsay, Business Strategist, Columnist and Entrepreneur. Entry free (on first-come-first-serve basis). The programme will be held on the BIC premises on 4th Main Road, Domlur II Stage, from 6.30 p.m. to 8 p.m.
1. State Government to celebrate centenary of All India Congress session in Belagavi held in 1924.
2. Ballari unit of BJP will organise a march from Ediga Hostel at 11 a.m., and stage a demonstration at Royal Circle to oppose fuel price hike.
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