1. The 10-day Dasara festivities, called Nada Habba in Karnataka, gets off to a colourful start in Mysuru. For the first time, President of India Draupadi Murmu is inaugurating the festival atop Chamundi Hills. The event at Mysuru is back to its old glory after a gap of two years, owing to COVID-19 pandemic.
2. President of India Droupadi Murmu to receive civic honour in Hubballi at 12 noon. At 3 p.m. she is set to inaugurate new campus of IIIT Dharwad.
3. Sreemanth Illal, the Circle Inspector of Police who was assaulted by a gang of ganja smugglers and seriously injured, to be shifted from Kalaburagi hospital to Bengaluru hospital in an air ambulance. He was attacked while raiding a ganja field along the Maharashtra-Karnataka border.