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Karnataka Today newsletter: KMF wants to hike Nandini milk price by ₹5 a litre, and more

Less than a year after the price of Nandini milk was hiked by ₹2 per litre, the Karnataka Milk Federation (KMF) is preparing to seek a hike of ₹5 per litre.

While the proposal of KMF for a hike of ₹5 per litre was not accepted by the previous BJP government, it had allowed a hike of ₹2 in November 2022. The hike had not satisfied farmers, who are reeling under increased input cost, as well as the district milk unions that had sought a higher hike since milk procurement had come down drastically. At ₹39 per litre, milk in Karnataka is among the cheapest in India.

A montessori school in Chikkalasandra area came under the police scanner after a child was found hitting another child in a classroom, which was allegedly locked and left unattended by the teacher for over 10 minutes. The incident was purportedly captured on CCTV camera. The veracity of the footage, which went viral on social media, is being verified by the police.

Worried parents raised the issue of children’s safety and vented their ire on the school management, alleging negligence in handling children. The Bengaluru police have directed the jurisdictional Subramanyapura police to probe the matter and take necessary action.

For about a week now, beachgoers in Udupi district have been surprised to witness large quantities of weed, or noodle-like material, being washed ashore. A group of scientists from the College of Fisheries, Mangaluru and the Central Marine Fisheries Research Institute, Mangaluru, visited one such site near Malpe on June 21 and inspected the dumped material.

What they found were shells of dead cellophane tube worms. The shells, which lie at the seabed with worms inside, might have been dislodged due to Cyclone Biparjoy and washed ashore, they concluded. There is no harm from the dead worms, or their shells, to other living beings on the land, they said.

Fairfax India Holdings Corporation has acquired an additional 3% equity in Bangalore International Airport Limited (BIAL) from Siemens Project Ventures GmbH, which is part of Siemens Financial Services, for $75 million.