Amit Shah arriving in Karnataka
The Hindu
It’s his first visit after leadership change
Union Home Minister Amit Shah is arriving in the State on Thursday to participate in a slew of programmes. This is the first time that Mr. Shah is visiting the State after the change of guard in the party with Basavaraj Bommai taking over as Chief Minister. Mr. Bommai, who is accompanying Mr. Shah in all the programmes being attended by him on Thursday, told reporters in Hubballi that he would use the opportunity to discuss some of the issues related to development of the State and the projects that need to be taken up by the Centre.We all remember the childhood history classes on human evolution, which taught us how where men started hunting their food and learned to cook on fire create a fire that paved the way for our culinary adventures across centuries. Humans have evolved since then, wood fires have been replaced by ovens and gas stoves whereas open-fire cooking has only been a part of our backyard activity that gets a pick occasionally during special occasions.
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