
Students seek bus service, scholarship
The Hindu
Seeking various facilities, a large number of students led by office-bearers of the Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP) took out a protest march and staged demonstrations in Hubballi and Dharwad
Seeking various facilities, a large number of students led by office-bearers of the Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP) took out a protest march and staged demonstrations in Hubballi and Dharwad on Friday.
In Dharwad, the students staged a demonstration in front of the office of the Deputy Commissioner and demanded that the State Government take immediate steps to fulfil their demands in the wake of reopening of colleges.
They said, after almost 20 months, offline classes for students of class VI and above had begun, which was a good move. However, as classes were held at different timings for different batches, students, particularly those coming from rural areas, did not have proper bus facilities. These bus services were suspended during lockdown and had not been restored till date, they said.

In , the grape capital of India and host of the Simhastha Kumbh Mela every 12 years, environmental concerns over a plan to cut 1,800 trees for the proposed Sadhugram project in the historic Tapovan area have sharpened political fault lines ahead of local body elections. The issue has pitted both Sena factions against the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), which leads the ruling Mahayuti alliance in Maharashtra. While Eknath Shinde, Deputy Chief Minister and Shiv Sena chief, and Uddhav Thackeray, chief of the Shiv Sena (UBT), remain political rivals, their parties have found rare common ground in Tapovan, where authorities propose clearing trees across 34 acres to build Sadhugram and a MICE (Meetings, Incentives, Conferences and Exhibitions) hub, as part of a ₹300-crore infrastructure push linked to the pilgrimage.












