Bengaluru: A high-level meeting to decide on Cauvery water release to canals will be held in Bengaluru in one or two days. According to sources in the Government, as farmers across the Cauvery Basin in Karnataka are protesting demanding water to the canals so that they can start agriculture activities, the Government will decide on…
Mysuru: The construction of the new District Offices Complex at the German Press premises in Siddarthanagar on Mysuru-Bannur Double Road is progressing rapidly with 70% of the works being completed. The construction works have been taken up by the Karnataka Public Works Department and Ports and Inland Water Transport Department at an estimated cost of…
Activists of the Karnataka Janapara Vedike yesterday performed mock obsequies ceremony (Thithi) of Chief Minister Siddharamaiah and Water Resources Minister M.B. Patil in Maddur to vent their ire against the State Government for its failure to respond to their demands. The residents of surrounding villages took part in the rituals and built graves out of…
Mysuru: Former Vice-Chancellor of Karnataka State Open University (KSOU) and University of Mysore, Prof. K.S. Rangappa said, “I am deeply pained by the plight of lakhs of students of KSOU who are in doldrums today. I have said this many times in the past and I am saying it again. I am ready to face…
New Delhi: The Three Judge Bench of Supreme Court, which is hearing the petition filed by one Tilly Gifford, who claims to be the niece of late Van Ingen, challenging the Karnataka High Court order of dismissing the FIR against Michael Flyod Eshwer, yesterday, set aside the HC order and referred the matter back to…
By H.D. Ramesh Periyapatna: Every one of us would like to live on tree-tops for one or two days, far from the madding crowd and hustle and bustle of the city. But what if you are forced to live atop a tree, 365 days and 24/7, that too under the threat of wild elephants? Here…
Bengaluru: The Visvesvaraya Technological University (VTU) has decided to introduce Kannada as a compulsory subject for all the first-year students. This means that engineering students will now have to mandatorily pass the Kannada language test to move into the next semester. Until now, Kannada had been an add-on subject (in which attendance was compulsory, but…
Bengaluru: The recent transfers affected in the Police Department has not gone down well with a section of IPS officers in the State and they are now blaming “Super Home Minister” Kempaiah (in pic) for the mess. Kempaiah, a retired Police officer, is the advisor to the Home Minister and Chief Minister Siddharamaiah holds the…
Bengaluru: Taking a strong objection to the Cabinet de-notifying around 1,500 dying lakes, State JD(S) President H.D. Kumaraswamy has sought the Governor’s intervention to stop the Government move. Quoting a Supreme Court order and recommendations by Committees headed by retired IAS officer N. Lakshman Rao on lakes in the city, as well as Committees of…
Mysuru: Members of ITC Limited Technical Staff Union, a unit of Mysuru District General Employees Union, have launched a morning to dusk breakfast, lunch and tea abstinence protest during work hours from Monday up to August 5. In a press statement, the members stated that technical officers and agriculture officers of the Karnataka Green Leaf…
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