Top news developments in Karnataka on November 7, 2023
The Hindu
Top news developments in Karnataka on November 7, 2023
1. After a night of heavy rains in Bengaluru, houses and establishments are flooded in several areas, including Chickpet, B.V.K. Iyengar Road, Ramamurthy Nagar and Mahalakshmi Puram.
2. Veteran politician D.B. Chandre Gowda passed away this morning at his residence at Daradahalli in Mudigere taluk in Chikkamagaluru district. He was 87. He had a political career spanning over five decades in different political parties.
3. Raman Research Institute is organising a programme to release commemorative postal stamp on the occasion of its platinum jubilee celebrations. Among those attending are Dr. K. Kasturirangan, ,ember, RRI Governing Council and former Chairman of ISRO, and A.S. Kiran Kumar, Chairperson, RRI Governing Council and former Chairman of ISRO. Governor Thaawarchand Gehlot releases the commemorative postal stamp. The programme will be held at Raman Research Institute in Sadashivnagar, at 4 p.m.
5. Karnataka Chitrakala Parishat is celebrating the birth centenary of Somashekar M. Saali today. Minister for Large and Medium Industries and Infrastructure Development M.B. Patil inaugurates, P.S. Kademuni, president, Somashekara Saali Foundation, Vijayapura, will be the chief guest. The event will be held at Karnataka Chitrakala Parishat on Kumarakrupa Road, at 6 p.m.
6. Indian Institute of Cartoonists will present an exhibition of cartoons by Soumyadip Sinha from 10 a.m. till 6 p.m. at Indian Cartoon Gallery, No. 1, Midford Garden, of M.G. Road.
1. Speaker U.T. Khader and legislative Council Chairman Basavaraj Horatti to inspect Suvarna Soudha, and hold meeting with officials about winter session in Belagavi.
2. Tourism Minister H.K. Patil and Rural Development and Panchayat Raj Minister and Kalaburagi in-charge Priyank Kharge will participate in historical monument adoption programme, at Nagavi in Chittapur taluk of Kalaburagi district.
“We are judges and therefore, cannot act like Mughals of a bygone era ... the writ courts in the guise of doing justice cannot transcend the barriers of law,” the High Court of Karnataka observed while setting aside an order of a single judge, who in 2016 had extended the lease of a public premises allotted to a physically challenged person to 20 years contrary to 12-year period stipulated in the law.
The High Court of Karnataka on Monday declined to interfere, at present, in the investigation against a Bharatiya Janata Party worker, who is among the accused persons facing charges of circulating obscene clips, related to “morphed” images and videos clips related to Prajwal Revanna, former Hassan MP, in public domain through pen drives and other modes.