Top news developments in Karnataka on September 25, 2023
The Hindu
Here are the key news stories to watch out for from Karnataka on September 25, 2023
1. Fifth Edition of World Coffee Conference being organised by Coffee Board of India, Ministry of Commerce and Industry, Government of India and International Coffee Organisations will be held today. Union Minister for Commerce and Industry Piyush Goel and Minister for Coffee, Joe Kuli, Papua New Guinea, will participate as chief guests. The event will be held at Bengaluru Palace Grounds, at 3 p.m.
2. The silver jubilee celebration of Bangalore Metropolitan Transport Corporation (BMTC) will be held today. Dr. C N. Manjunath, Director, Jayadeva Institute of Cardiovascular Sciences, will inaugurate. Minister for Transport and Muzrai Ramalingareddy, will preside over the event which will be held in Jnanajyothi Auditorium, Central College premises on Palace Road at 3 p.m.
3. As part of the Ganesha Utsava organised by the Sri Vidyaranya Yuvaka Sangha, there will be Bhakthi Sangeeth by Pandit Venkatesh Kumar and troupe today. The programme will be held at Sringeri Shankara Mutt in Shankarapuram from 7 pm.
1. Labour Minister Santosh Lad to hold Janata Darshan in Dharwad today at 11 am. Applications received in advance to be redressed during the event.
2. District in-charge ministers Priyank Kharge, Sharanabasappa Darshanapur, Eshwar Khandre and B. Nagendra to preside over district level Janata Darshans at Kalaburagi, Yadgir, Bidar and Ballari, respectively.
1. Launch of district-level Janata Darshan to redress public grievances by Social Welfare Minister H.C. Mahadevappa
2. Second batch of Dasara elephants to arrive at the Mysuru palace
“Writing, in general, is a very solitary process,” says Yauvanika Chopra, Associate Director at The New India Foundation (NIF), which, earlier this year, announced the 12th edition of its NIF Book Fellowships for research and scholarship about Indian history after Independence. While authors, in general, are built for it, it can still get very lonely, says Chopra, pointing out that the fellowship’s community support is as valuable as the monetary benefits it offers. “There is a solid community of NIF fellows, trustees, language experts, jury members, all of whom are incredibly competent,” she says. “They really help make authors feel supported from manuscript to publication, so you never feel like you’re struggling through isolation.”
Several principals of government and private schools in Delhi on Tuesday said the Directorate of Education (DoE) circular from a day earlier, directing schools to conduct classes in ‘hybrid’ mode, had caused confusion regarding day-to-day operations as they did not know how many students would return to school from Wednesday and how would teachers instruct in two modes — online and in person — at once. The DoE circular on Monday had also stated that the option to “exercise online mode of education, wherever available, shall vest with the students and their guardians”. Several schoolteachers also expressed confusion regarding the DoE order. A government schoolteacher said he was unsure of how to cope with the resumption of physical classes, given that the order directing government offices to ensure that 50% of the employees work from home is still in place. On Monday, the Commission for Air Quality Management in the National Capital Region and Adjoining Areas (CAQM) had, on the orders of the Supreme Court, directed schools in Delhi-NCR to shift classes to the hybrid mode, following which the DoE had issued the circular. The court had urged the Centre’s pollution watchdog to consider restarting physical classes due to many students missing out on the mid-day meals and lacking the necessary means to attend classes online. The CAQM had, on November 20, asked schools in Delhi-NCR to shift to the online mode of teaching.