Mysuru: The Government issued an order to reconstitute District Standing Committee to review the facilities provided to minority communities by various departments of the district. The Committee will have Deputy Commissioner as Chairman. The members are ZP CEO, SP, City Police Commissioner, DDPI, District Employment Exchange Officer, District Industries Centre General Manager, Lead Bank Officers,…
Tender coconut sale in theatres to help famine-hit farmers
August 11, 2017Mysuru: The State Government is making all efforts to ease the distress of farmers reeling under drought. One of them is to introduce tender coconuts in multiplexes and cinema theatres across the State. Chikkamagaluru MLC M.K. Pranesh had suggested Horticulture Minister S.S. Mallikarjun to ban the sale of all kinds of soft drinks in multiplexes…
State government appoints Heads, Members to various Academies
August 9, 2017Bengaluru: The State Government on Monday appointed the following persons as Chairmen (Chairpersons) and Members of its various Academies. Dr. K. Marulasiddappa has been appointed as the Chairman of Kuvempu Bhasha Bharathi Pradhikara (Kannada Translation Academy), Dr. Vasundhara Bhupathi for Kannada Book Authority, Prof. Aravind Malagatti for Karnataka Sahitya Academy, Kalachar for Karnataka Shilpakala Academy,…
State Government to supply Malaysian sand to ease shortage
August 8, 2017Bengaluru: The Government is making all efforts to ease the problem of sand shortage for construction purpose and strike at the sand mafia. Because of the shortage, sand is being sold at exorbitant prices and now it (Government) is planning to sell at Rs. 35,000 per lorry load, said Law and Parliamentary Affairs Minister T.B….
Hemant Nimbalkar is IGP (Western Range)
August 8, 2017Bengaluru: In yet another reshuffle of IPS Officers, the State Government on Monday transferred five senior officers. M Hemanth Nimbalkar, who was shunted out as Additional Commissioner of Police (Bengaluru East) a few days ago, has been posted as IGP (Western Range) headquartered in Mangaluru. The Western Range covers Dakshina Kannada, Uttara Kannada, Udupi and…
State fumes over use of CRPF for IT raid
August 4, 2017Bengaluru: The Karnataka Government has slammed the Centre for the use of Central forces while conducting Income Tax (IT) search and seizure operations on the premises linked to Energy Minister D.K. Shivakumar. The State said the deployment of Central armed forces in operational attire for a civilian operation sends a wrong impression about the necessity…
State Govt. goes on a publicity blitzkrieg
July 30, 2017Mysuru: Looks like the Congress government headed by Chief Minister Siddharamaiah is leaving no stone unturned to ensure that its policies and programmes are reached to the public as the next Assembly elections are not far away. And to drive home the message, an LED display board has been installed at Curzon Park near the…
Police Inspectors transferred
July 25, 2017Mysuru: State Government issued orders transferring 146 Police Inspectors throughout the State yesterday. Among them, a total seven Inspectors including four from Mysuru city have been transferred. Among those transferred in Mysuru include: Mandi Police Inspector Lakshmikanth K. Talawar to Dist. Civil Right Enforcement (Mysuru), Narasimharaja Traffic Inspector C. Kiran Kumar to Mysuru CESC, Mysuru…
Geologist transferred
July 20, 2017Mandya: Close to the heels of the State Government shunting out DIG Roopa for exposing irregularities in Parappana Agrahara Jail, Nagabhushan, a senior geologist of the Mines and Geology Department, who had issued a notice to a stone quarry belonging to a close relative of Mandya MP C.S. Puttaraju for payment of fine for violating…
Karnataka Govt. wants State Flag, BJP calls move anti-national
July 19, 2017Bengaluru: A long-standing demand by Kannada activists for an official State flag became a major controversy yesterday with Karnataka Government setting up a nine-member Committee to examine the legality and desirability of having and designing a separate flag for the State. The Committee is headed by Kannada and Culture Department Principal Secretary. Heads of Department…
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