belagavi a newborn baby was found abandoned beside the punabengaluru national highway4 on the outskirts of nippani town in the early hours of thursday the baby boy wrapped in a cloth was found inside a basket after spotting the baby locals informed police and the latter rushed to the spot and rescued the baby the baby has been shifted to belagavi institute of medical science bims according to the hospital sources the baby is safe and out of danger a case has been registered at nippani police stationpanchamsali meet deferred to nov 28belagavi lingayat panchamsali convention scheduled at gandigwad village of khanapur taluk for november 25 has been postponed to november 28 due to some reasons basavajay mrutyunjay swamiji of panchamasali peetha in kudalasangam told reporters at khanapur on thursday that the convention will now be held in the premises of paramjyoti high school at 3pm prior to that purnakumbha procession will be taken out from the bus station 1pm approximately 40 population in 50 villages of khanapur taluk are panchamsali lingayats more than 20000 people from the community will attend the convention conventions have been arranged successfully at gokak mudalagi and hukkeri taluks of in belagavi district and it will be continued demanding 2a category reservation for the community the seer addedcontractors file complaint against hescom officershubballi karnataka state licenced electrical contractors association has charged hescom md and other officials with violating tenderrelated rules to favour a section of contractors and filed a complaint to the lokayukta association member vijaykumar guddad to reporters here on thursday that to favour 30 contractors the tender worth rs 472 crore was floated hescom md and other officials have violated the related norms he alleged most of the 30 contractors are from pune mumbai and tamil nadu and andhra pradesh he said and urged the authorities to cancel the entire tender process and float a fresh one he also sought removal of some of the conditions in the tender saying they are improper the works should be allotted to local contractors he said adding pertaining to the irregularities in the tender process we have lodged a complaint to the lokayuktakannada nudi habba tomorrowhubballi kannada kala krishi balaga in vidyanagar here will organise kannada nudi habba to mark rajyotsava on november 26 h v belagali president of the reception committee told reporters here on thursday that the habba will be held at lingaraj nagar with m krishnegouda and vivekanand h k as the chief guests comedy play kuduka kalyasidik malli will be staged by vishwajyoti shri panchakshari natya sangh of jevargi also 25 people will be felicitated at the function he added shivayogappa emmi c k malipatil and other members of the organising committee were presentraitha soudha opens in hubballihubballi farmers should build a healthy society among future generations with organic farming said rss leader mangesh bende speaking at the inaugural ceremony of raitha soudha building built by bharatiya kisan sangha karnataka pradesh karnataka uttar pranta at siddheshwar park vidyanagar here on thursday he