Top Karnataka news developments on February 4, 2022
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Here are the key news developments in Karnataka to watch out for
1. The row over students entering classrooms wearing hijab continues to rock two pre-university colleges in Udupi district in coastal Karnataka. A section of girl students wearing hijab were not allowed to enter a college on February 3 even as the High Court of Karnataka on the matter. Further developments expected today, as the controversy refuses to die down.
2. Today marks the of celebrated Hindustani musician the late Bhimsen Joshi, who hails from Karnataka. Though he lived in Pune in his later years, it was north Karnataka towns that shaped his sensibility as a musician and his link with Dharwad in particular remained strong through his life.
3. In Karnataka, an average of 78,381 new cases of cancer are being diagnosed every year as per . While the leading sites of cancers in males are lung (10.1%), stomach (6.9%) and prostate (6.4%), breast (27.9%), cervix (12%) and ovary (6.4%) are the leading cancers among women. Today is World Cancer day. Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai and Health and Family Welfare Minister Dr. K. Sudhakarwill flag off ‘Cancer Awareness and Awareness Mission’ programme to mark the day.
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Currently, only the services in the 32 series stop at the section of the road adjacent to the Broadway terminus, temporarily closed on account of reconstruction work. Small traders association tells R. Ragu that ensuring the services now accommodated at the temporary terminus at Island Grounds stop at NSC Bose road would benefit visitors to the markets in Parrys
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The silent reading movement in the Mylapore-Mandaveli-RA Puram area showed up first at Nageswara Rao Park around two years ago, with modest ambitions, when Balaji launched it along with other reading enthusiasts from the region. This initiative has now moved parks, and seems to set to get entrenched in one. Due to renovation work at Nageswara Park, the reading session became irregular. With the Nageswara Rao park work gaining more surface area, it had to be shifted elsewhere. And it seems set to continue with a newly discovered green patch in RK Nagar in the Sundays to follow.
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