Top news developments in Karnataka on January 30, 2023
The Hindu
Here are the key news stories to watch out for from Karnataka today
1. Secretary, Ministry of Power, will preside over first Energy Transition Working Group (ETWG) meeting in Bengaluru. The first G20 ETWG meeting under India’s presidency will be held in Bengaluru from February 5 to 7. The meeting will have over 150 participants, including G 20 member countries, nine special invitee guest countries.
2. Party-hopping has begun in Karnataka ahead of Assembly elections. Leaders from other parties are set to join BJP in the presence of State president Nalin Kumar Kateel, at the party’s office in Malleswaram, at 10 a.m. today.
3. Centre for Gandhian Studies, Gandhi Bhavan, Bangalore University, is observing Sarvodaya Day today. Retired judge, Justice H.S. Nagamohan Das, inaugurates, Jnana Bharathi campus, from 11 a.m. Sarvodaya Day is being observed in other districts too. An urn containing the ashes of Mahatma Gandhi will be taken out in a procession amid police security in Madikeri.
4. Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai is set to hold a series of meetings related to the State budget, which will be presented on February 17.
5. K.V. Tirumalesh, a well-known Kannada poet and critic, who lived in Hyderabad, passed away early on Monday morning. He had won the Sahitya Akademi award for his collections of poems Akshaya Kavya in 2010.
1. A five-day workshop on recent trends in automation technology begins at National Institute of Engineering (NIE) in Mysuru today.
2. Congress to hold an event at its office in Mysuru to mark conclusion of Bharat Jodo Yatra in Kashmir.
The Opposition Congress demanded that the government open the Gandhi Vatika Museum, depicting Mahatma Gandhi’s legacy and freedom struggle, built at a cost of ₹85 crore in Jaipur’s Central Park last year, during the Congress-led regime in Rajasthan. The museum has not been opened to the public, reportedly because of the administration’s engagements with the State Assembly and Lok Sabha elections.
Almaya Munnettam (Lay People to the Fore), group in the Ernakulam-Angamaly Archdiocese of the Syro-Malabar Church opposed to the synod-recommended Mass, rejected a circular issued by Major Archbishop Raphael Thattil and apostolic administrator Bosco Puthur on June 9 to implement the unified Mass in the archdiocese from July 3.
Pakistan coach Gary Kirsten stated that “not so great decision making” contributed to his side’s defeat to India in the Group-A T20 World Cup clash here on Sunday. The batting unit came apart in the chase, after being well placed at 72 for two. With 48 runs needed from eight overs, Pakistan found a way to panic and lose. “Maybe not so great decision making,” Kirsten said at the post-match press conference, when asked to explain the loss.