Siddaramaiah kicks off grand 'Namma Jaatre' folk festival in Bengaluru
Bengaluru: Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah inaugurated the procession marking the commencement of the 'Namma Jaatre' folk festival near the Vidhana Soudha steps in Bengaluru on Sunday.
The event is a part of the 'Karnataka Sambhrama-50' celebrations, which commemorate the golden jubilee of renaming Mysore state as 'Karnataka' and also coincide with the 'Unboxing Bangalore' brand initiative.
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Organized by the Kannada and Culture Department, the launch ceremony witnessed the presence of dignitaries, including Shivaraj Tangadagi, Minister for Backward Class Development and Kannada and Culture, Naseer Ahmed, CM's Political Secretary, Rajneesh Goel, Chief Secretary, Shalini Rajneesh, Additional Chief Secretary and Development Commissioner, N Manjula, Chief Secretary of the Kannada and Culture Department, and prominent Kannada film actors Sadhu Kokila and Pooja Gandhi.
ಮುಖ್ಯಮಂತ್ರಿ @siddaramaiah ಅವರು ವಿಧಾನಸೌಧದಲ್ಲಿ "ನಮ್ಮ ಜಾತ್ರೆ" ಕಾರ್ಯಕ್ರಮ ಉದ್ಘಾಟಿಸಿ, ಶುಭ ಹಾರೈಸಿದರು.
— CM of Karnataka (@CMofKarnataka) December 10, 2023
ಕನ್ನಡ ಮತ್ತು ಸಂಸ್ಕೃತಿ ಇಲಾಖೆ ಸಚಿವರಾದ ಶಿವರಾಜ್ ತಂಗಡಗಿ, ಮುಖ್ಯಮಂತ್ರಿ ಸಚಿವಾಲಯದ ಮತ್ತು ಇಲಾಖೆಯ ಹಿರಿಯ ಅಧಿಕಾರಿಗಳು ಉಪಸ್ಥಿತರಿದ್ದರು. pic.twitter.com/B0VOkZrdSc
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Karnataka to witness heavy rain for next 10 days
Bengaluru: The India Meteorological Department (IMD) has forecast that the southwest monsoon will cause heavy rainfall likely this weekend and will drench Karnataka over the next 10 days.
The monsoon has begun retreating from northwestern India. Conditions remain active over the south, with an upper air trough extending up to 1.5 km over North Interior Karnataka and northern Tamil Nadu, combined with weakening monsoon winds across the peninsula, is driving the current spell. N. Puviarasan, head of the IMD’s meteorological centre in Bengaluru, said in a conversation with Deccan Herald, “As a result, the whole of Karnataka will see rain over the next week to 10 days."
With a cyclone in the Pacific Ocean along with a low-pressure system over the north Bay of Bengal, the monsoon is expected to intensify during the next four days. IMD has predicted heavy rains across South Interior Karnataka, including Bengaluru, throughout the weekend.
Bengaluru, recorded widespread moderate to heavy rainfall on Thursday. Between 8.30 am and 8.30 pm, Bengaluru city logged 45.9 mm of rain accompanied by thunderstorms. HAL airport registered 6 mm and the Bengaluru Urban automatic station recorded 47.5 mm. Doddathoguru, near Electronics City, reported 55 mm.
According to IMD forecast heavy rainfall will occur at isolated places in Bengaluru Urban, Bengaluru Rural, Yadgir, Koppal, Raichur, Ramanagara and Mandya districts in the next few days.
The southwest monsoon is now expected to extend until mid-October and with little or no break in between, the northeast monsoon is likely to follow immediately. These are expected to last until December. “There may be no break in between,” Puviarasan said.
