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ChiefMinister basavaraj bommai Karnataka says bringing mortal remains of Naveen top priority
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12th Bengaluru India Nano to be held from March 7 to 9: Karnataka minister

The 12th edition of the Bengaluru India Nano with 'Nanotech for Sustainable Future' as its central theme will be held from March 7 to 9 and will be inaugurated by Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai, said Karnataka Minister for Electronics, IT, BT and Science and Technology Dr C N Ashwatha Narayana. Narayana added, 'Due to the pandemic, many national and international experts are unable to participate in the event physically, prompting us to plan the event virtually.
We are fortunate that the event is taking place under the guidance of Bharat Ratna Prof CNR Rao, who is the Honorary Chairman of the Nanotechnology Vision Group. I'm also happy that our Global Innovation Alliance (GIA) partners — Canada, Germany, Israel, Japan and North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW) — are conducting a session each.'
Partly cloudy skies in Bengaluru today
According to the Meteorological Centre, Bengaluru, the city will see partly cloudy skies today (Thursday) and Friday.
The maximum and minimum temperatures are very likely to be around 32 and 17 degrees Celsius, respectively.
Mist is also very likely during early morning hours in some areas in Bengaluru and around the city on Friday.
167 held a day after communal face-off at Kalaburagi 'dargah'
As many as 167 people have been arrested and five FIRs registered in the Aland region of the Kalaburagi district of North Karnataka a day after Hindu and Muslim groups tried to gain access to the Ladle Mashak 'dargah' despite prohibitory orders, police said.
Sree Rama Sene had announced an event to purify Raghava Chaitanya Shivalinga at the 'dargah' to mark Mahashivaratri festival and Muslim groups planned a Shabab-e-baraat procession there the same day.
Anticipating trouble, the Kalaburagi district administration imposed prohibitory orders from February 27 to March 3 in Aland and restricted access to the 'dargah'. Sree Rama Sena leader Pramod Muthalik and a few others were barred from the district.
In Chalageri, ripples felt beyond Naveen's home: 'Hoping son will survive'
'I worked for 12 years in the Gulf and later shifted to Mysuru where my children were studying well. But by the time I started dreaming of seeing my son as a doctor, the dream vanished like the wind.'
Two more years, says a heart-broken Shekharappa Gyanagoudar, and all the sacrifices he had made to provide his son with an education abroad 'would have been justified'.
Shekharappa's son, Naveen S G, a fourth-year medical student at the Kharkiv National Medical University, was killed in shelling on Tuesday after he stepped out of his bunker at the college to buy food. The incident marked India's first casualty in the war in Ukraine triggered by Russia's invasion.

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Union Minister for Law and Parliamentary Affairs Pralhad Joshi. (Express photo by Anil Sharma)
Union Minister for Law and Parliamentary Affairs Pralhad Joshi has drawn criticism over his statement on Indian students failing to qualify medical exams in India.
On Tuesday, speaking to media persons in Belagavi, he had said, 'Ninety per cent of Indians who study medicine abroad fail to clear qualifying exams in India. This is not the right time to debate why students are moving out to study medicine.'
On Wednesday, when he visited the house of fourth-year medical student Naveen SG, who died in Ukraine, in Chalageri village, media persons asked him about the remarks he had made on Tuesday. However, he did not respond to the questions and said that he had spoken to Minister of External Affairs S Jaishankar and the latter had informed him that all efforts were being made to bring the mortal remains of Naveen and evacuate remaining students from Ukraine.
Reported by (AIMA MEDIA) from Bangalore Karnataka