Karnataka Bengaluru Live Updates: CM Basavaraj Bommai to visit flood-affected areas today

Karnataka Bangalore Latest News Live Updates: Bommai will visit Yellapur, Karwar, and Ankola where he will assess the damages caused by floods that followed incessant rains during the last fortnight.

Karnataka Bangalore Live News Updates: Karnataka Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai is scheduled to visit flood-affected areas in the state on Thursday, on his second day in office. The CM will visit Yellapur, Karwar, and Ankola where he will assess the damages caused by floods that followed incessant rains during the last fortnight.

Basavaraj Bommai on Wednesday assured an efficient, honest and people-friendly government, as he asserted that there will be no multiple power centres in his administration and rejected suggestions about him being likely a “rubber stamp CM”. “My government will have the stamp of being a pro-people administration in the history of Karnataka and I will ensure it,” Bommai told reporters in Bengaluru in response to a question on him being perceived in some quarters as a rubber stamp Chief Minister as he is a confidant of his predecessor B S Yediyurappa.

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In his first visit to Hubballi-Dharwad after taking over as Karnataka Chief Minister, Basavaraj Bommai visited the graves of his parents Gangamma and former CM S R Bommai. The memorials are located at Amargol in the middle of the twin cities.

A duo, accused of abducting and murdering a small-time financier and an autorickshaw driver in Indiranagar recently, sustained injuries on their legs after Bengaluru city police (East Division) opened fire at them “in self-defense.”

According to the police, one of the accused Kaviraj (46) has also been allegedly involved in the abduction of former Kolar MLA Varthur Prakash and in the Shabnam Developers shootout case in Tilak Nagar.

“The accused had been out of prison only recently. While investigating the missing complaint, we got a tip-off that he (Kaviraj) was in a car near Byappanahalli with his associates. Soon after our officers tracked him, Kaviraj and his associate Ambarish (35) attacked Assistant Sub-Inspector Govindaraju and his colleague. ACP Kumar and Inspector Harish, who were also part of the team, issued a warning and shot at their legs in self-defense,” the police explained. 

The police added that Kaviraj is believed to be a close associate of gangster Ravi Pujari.

Nearly a month after the death of Father Stan Swamy, a tribal rights activist arrested in the Elgaar Parishad case, the demand for justice to the late Jesuit priest continued in Bengaluru as members of various civil societies and faculty and students of several institutions carried out a silent candlelight march.

After the march held on Museum Road in the city on Wednesday evening, Fr Dionysius Vaz SJ, provincial of Karnataka Jesuit Province, “Fr Stan Swamy’s death is not an end; it is yet another moment of awakening in our journey to affirm our faith in the Constitution of our country. Amidst growing inequalities, violence, atrocities, discrimination, and exclusion in our country, ‘not to be a silent spectator is the message that he left for us.”

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The Kempegowda International Airport in Bengaluru (BLR Airport) now replenishes more water than it consumes, making it 100 per cent water positive, officials claimed.

According to the Bengaluru International Airport Limited (BIAL), in charge of operating and maintaining the airport, the feat was accomplished due to the continuous efforts to uphold holistic sustainability not just focussed on the airport, but also on the community at large.

Calling it a “significant achievement, BIAL MD & CEO Hari Marar explained that conservation at this level was made possible by consuming water responsibly, reusing, recycling, and replenishing water bodies. “At BIAL, our holistic sustainability efforts are not just focussed on the airport, but also the community at large. We hope our actions will inspire others in the region to follow,” Marar said.

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Newly-appointed Karnataka Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai on Wednesday announced a new scholarship plan for the children of farmers in the state. “Rs 1,000 crore has been set aside for this special student stipend scheme which aims to promote higher education to the children of farmers,” he announced after attending the first cabinet meeting held just a few hours after he took over as the CM this morning.

Further, Bommai announced revisions to some of the existing schemes including pension for widows and the specially-abled in the state. “The pension disbursed under the Sandhya Suraksha Yojana will be increased to Rs 1,200 while the same for widows and the specially-abled will be hiked by Rs 200,” he announced.

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Namma Metro in Bengaluru is likely to begin commercial operations on the extended Purple Line on Mysuru Road by August, top officials indicate. 

Expressing confidence in the same, Bangalore Metro Rail Corporation Limited (BMRCL) managing director Anjum Parwez said officials were waiting for a date for safety inspections on the stretch between Mysore Road and Kengeri. 

‘All Documents that are required have been submitted to the Commissioner of Metro Railway Safety (CMRS). We can begin commercial operations on this seven-kilometre stretch by August after obtaining safety clearance from CMRS,’ Parwez said. 

With six stations, namely Nayandahalli, Rajarajeshwarinagar, Jnanabharathi, Pattengere, Kengeri Bus Terminal, and Kengeri, on the extended Purple line, the route is expected to benefit 70,000 passengers daily. Operations on this stretch were initially scheduled to be in 2020.

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As many as 33,344 children in Karnataka from the age group 6 to 18 and another 1,26,245 aged between three and six in rural areas are not going to school, an ongoing survey has revealed. 

The findings were submitted before a Division Bench of the Karnataka High Court comprising Chief Justice Abhay Shreeniwas Oka and Justice N S Sanjay Gowda. The Bench was hearing of a PIL petition which the court had initiated in 2013 suo motu based on a newspaper report on out-of-school-children.

However, the door-to-door survey has been completed to only nearly 90 per cent in rural areas, after which the data is transmitted to a child survey portal, officials clarified.

Even as several leaders from the BJP continue to lobby for plum positions in the yet-to-be formed Basavaraj Bommai-led Karnataka cabinet, former Chief Minister Jagadish Shettar Thursday announced he would like to opt out of the ministerial race. 

“Yediyurappa is our tallest leader under whom all of us grew in politics. I had worked as a Minister under him earlier as well and hence had no issues to become a minister in his cabinet. However, Bommai has worked in my Cabinet as a minister earlier and it would not be nice for me to work now in his Cabinet. Hence, I have opted out,” Shettar said in Bengaluru.

The 65-year-old leader was the Industries and Commerce Minister in the previous Yediyurappa-led cabinet.

In his first meetings with senior officials in the Karnataka government, Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai has called for an end to a “chalta hai attitude”, fiscal discipline and creation of a file movement system that will facilitate speedy decision making.

Bommai, who took oath as the 23rd Chief Minister of Karnataka on Wednesday morning, also held a one-man cabinet meeting where he took a few decisions to spotlight the “pro-people, pro-poor” agenda that he intends to pursue in the remaining 22 months of BJP governance in the state.

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Jailed gangster Ravi Pujari, who was brought to Ahmedabad on July 19 for investigation in several crimes cases lodged against him in Gujarat, was sent back to Bangalore Central Jail in Bengaluru, Karnataka, on Wednesday.

According to officials of Ahmedabad Detection of Crime Branch (DCB), Pujari was sent to Bengaluru by flight on Wednesday night after his additional one day police remand given by a court in Borsad of Anand ended.

Ahmedabad DCB had brought Pujari from Bengaluru to investigate a 2017 case of attempt to murder on independent councillor Pragnesh Patel in Borsad town of Anand which was allegedly done at the behest of Pujari.

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Karnataka Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai is scheduled to visit flood-affected areas in the state on Thursday, on his second day in office. The CM will visit Yellapur, Karwar, and Ankola where he will assess the damages caused by floods that followed incessant rains during the last forntight.

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A day after being announced the next Karnataka Chief Minister, Congress Wednesday urged Basavaraj Bommai to first “rectify the injustice” allegedly done by the Yediyurappa-led government since it came to power in July 2019. “Bommai, the new CM, should first rectify the injustice done to the state and its people in the last two years,” state Congress chief D K Shivakumar said.

READ | Karnataka: Congress asks Basavaraj Bommai to first ‘rectify injustice’ to state by Yediyurappa

The Kempegowda International Airport in Bengaluru (BLR Airport) now replenishes more water than it consumes, making it 100 per cent water positive, officials claimed. According to the Bengaluru International Airport Limited (BIAL), in charge of operating and maintaining the airport, the feat was accomplished due to the continuous efforts to uphold holistic sustainability not just focussed on the airport, but also on the community at large.

READ | Bengaluru airport replenishes more water than it consumes: BIAL

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