Invest India s MD and CEO, Nivruti Rai, urged gaming and animation developers at the Bengaluru GAFX-2024 event to create stories based on Indian heroes from mythologies like Ramayana and Mahabharata. She highlighted the success of Chhota Bheem , an animation series based on the character Bhima from Mahabharata. Rai offered to partner with the government of Karnataka to establish Bengaluru and India as leaders in the gaming developer industry. She emphasized the rich history and content of India, including 7,000 years of documented heroes and architecture.
The Election Commission of India (ECI) issued a notice to the Government of Karnataka for publishing advertisements highlighting welfare schemes and achievements in newspapers in poll-bound Telangana. The ECI views this as a violation of the Model Code of Conduct and notes that the Government of Karnataka did not obtain the required approval from the Commission.