PRICE PINCH: Rig Owners’ Association protests high diesel prices in Bengaluru on Tuesday
BENGALURU: High fuel prices have raised costs for the transport industry and this, in turn, is pushing up commodity prices. Traders and industry representatives have urged the state government to ease the impact by lowering local taxes.
Petrol is sold at Rs 92.3 per litre and diesel at Rs 84.5 in Bengaluru. The freight charges for all commodities have gone up by at least 75 paise per kg. “Wholesale prices of commodities are increasing because of higher freight charges and accordingly, retail prices are also climbing up,” said Lahoti, a former president of the Bangalore Wholesale Food Grains and Pulses Association.
HUBBALLI: With elections to Kannada Sahitya Parishat’s (KSP) state and district president post announced for May 9, candidates have started wooing voters at district and state level.
While aspirants are holding meetings at marriage halls and temples in north Karnataka districts, their southern counterparts are meeting in luxury hotels. The culture of resort politics too has emerged among KSP aspirants with many attending small literary events in taluks, to meet KSP members and hold cocktail parties.
RG Halli Nagaraj, a publisher-writer in Bengaluru, said aspirant-candidates have been wooing members since 5-6 months and alleged that a candidate eyeing the president’s post has been approaching members offering money.
Lack of adequate buses operated between the three bus terminals has compounded the problems of passengers
HUBBALLI: Although the new bus terminal at Hosur in Hubballi, equipped with the latest technology and facilities, was inaugurated amid much pomp recently, passengers in the twin cities are much upset with the lack of ready information on the schedule of operations, leading to many of them missing buses.
There is much confusion among the public about the availability of buses at each stand, and lack of adequate buses operated between the three terminals has compounded their problems. In addition to missing buses, many commuters, often boarding buses in a hurry to inquire the final destination, find themselves stranded far from home, forced to disembark at the wrong terminal.
Sammelana president Ninganna Kunti delivers the keynote address during the literary meet held in Itigatti on Sunday.
DHARWAD: Literary events, which were paused for almost a year owing to Covid-19 pandemic, resumed on Sunday with the inauguration of the eighth Dharwad taluk Kannada Sahitya Sammelana in Itigatti village.
The entire village was decorated with yellow and red, the colours of the Kananda flag. Schoolchildren, college students, women, men, writers and literature lovers thronged the village.
An attractive procession carrying Sammelana president Ninganna Kunti was taken out through the main road in Itigatti. Over 100 rural women carrying the traditional kumbha on their heads led the procession. Folk dances like ‘dollu kunita’ and ‘hejje mela’ were performed by over 10 teams.