Govinda
BELAGAVI: Barely weeks after the Shiv Sena raked up the border dispute, a truck driver from Tumakuru was allegedly thrashed for speaking in Kannada at the Maharashtra border.
Govinda was waylaid late Friday night near the Satara tollgate in Maharashtra by six persons when he was ferrying goods from Ahmedabad to Bengaluru. He fled for safety, leaving behind the vehicle after informing its owner.
Athani DySP Girish, on the instructions of Belagavi SP, went with Govinda when he filed a complaint at Satara police station. Girish said: “Four of the six men were arrested on Saturday evening.”
Posing as policemen, the six men stopped the vehicle. They asked Govinda to get down and demanded to see his documents. He spoke in Kannada while taking out the vehicle documents. “The men shouted at me in Marathi and told me to speak in their language,” he said.
Kannada and culture minister Aravind Limbavali
HAVERI: The 86th Akhila Bharata Kannada Sahitya Sammelana, scheduled to be held from February 26 to 28 in Haveri, has been postponed due to Covid-19 restrictions.
Kannada and culture minister Aravind Limbavali said the fresh schedule will be announced after March 9. “Since the central government has extended Covid-19 restrictions till February 28, the government thought it prudent to postpone the event which attracts lakhs of people.,” the minister said.
Elections to the posts of Kannada Sahitya Parishat office-bearers will be announced on Saturday. The tenure of the incumbent committee ends on March 3.
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Among the primary features on the proposed concrete road include the routing of all the wires, cables and pipelines through an underground duct
HUBBALLI: As part of the efforts to enhance the visual appeal of some of the city’s thoroughfares, the authorities have decided to transform the street between Indi Pump Circle and Manjunath Nagar into a concrete road, along the lines of streets that have been refurbished under the TenderSURE project. Work on concretisation of the eight-kilometre road is expected to get under way soon.
MLA Arvind Bellad said that, although the road was slated to be developed using money allocated under the Central Road Fund (CRF), a contractor who was assigned the task had walked away from the project owing to delay in the disbursement of funds. “Those contracted under CRF are not being paid regularly,” Bellad rued.