
Watch | No one is checking certificates of people arriving from Kerala to Karnataka
The Hindu
This is contrary to Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai's statement of enhancing vigil at the Kerala-Karnataka border as a new variant of COVID-19 has entered the State
Notwithstanding Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai’s statement of enhancing vigil at the Kerala-Karnataka border as a new variant of COVID-19 entered the State, there was neither screening nor checking at Talapady on NH 66 near Mangaluru on November 29.
When The Hindu visited the border between 7.45 a.m. and 8 a.m., a few police personnel were seated on the roadside while vehicles from Kerala were entering Karnataka without the occupants being asked to show vaccination and RT-PCR certificates.

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.












