Mangaluru:  Karnataka Governor Tavar Chand Gehlot is set to embark on a visit to the Dakshina Kannada district on September 8 (Friday), as announced by his office in a press release.

According to the release, the governor will land at Mangaluru International Airport at 11:00 AM and proceed to the Circuit House by 11:25 AM.

At 12:00 PM, he is scheduled to inaugurate ‘The Physiotherapy Conference Mangaluru PhysioCon 2023’, at the T.M.A Pai Convention Hall. Following this event, at 1:00 PM, the Governor will stay at the Hotel Taj Vivanta in the city.

At 1:30 PM, he will engage in an interaction with management officials representing private universities and colleges. 

The release further stated that the governor is scheduled to depart for Bengaluru by flight from Mangaluru at 5:25 pm.

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Tel Aviv, May 13 (AP): Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says there is “no way” Israel will halt its war in Gaza, even if a deal is reached to release more hostages.

His comments are likely to complicate talks on a new ceasefire that had seemed to gain momentum after Hamas released the last living American hostage on Monday in a gesture to US President Donald Trump, who is visiting the region but skipping Israel.

They pointed to a potentially widening rift between Netanyahu and Trump, who had expressed hope that Monday's release of Israeli-American soldier Edan Alexander would be a step toward ending the 19-month war.

In comments released by his office Tuesday from a visit to wounded soldiers the previous day, Netanyahu said Israeli forces were just days away from a promised escalation of force and would enter Gaza “with great strength to complete the mission. ... It means destroying Hamas.”

Any ceasefire deal reached would be temporary, the prime minister said. If Hamas were to say they would release more hostages, “we'll take them, and then we'll go in. But there will be no way we will stop the war,” Netanyahu said. “We can make a ceasefire for a certain period of time, but we're going to the end.”

Hamas has said it will only release the remaining hostages in return for more Palestinian prisoners, a lasting ceasefire and an Israeli withdrawal from Gaza. The dispute over whether to end the conflict has been the main obstacle in negotiations going back more than a year.

Israel says 58 hostages remain in captivity, with as many as 23 of them said to be alive, although authorities have expressed concern about the condition of three of them.

Many of the 250 hostages taken by Hamas-led militants in the Oct. 7, 2023 attack that started the war were freed in ceasefire deals.