Bengaluru: 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…
Bengaluru: The State Government has decided to enhance its share of institutional quota seats from 30% to 50% an increase by 20%. The decision in this regard was taken after students from the State demanded that the quota be increased for their benefit, said Medical Education Minister Dr. Sharan Prakash Patil. He said that if…
Bengaluru: The Siddharamaiah government yesterday announced 5% reservation for State civil services aspirants who have studied in Kannada medium from first standard to tenth standard. The move comes in the backdrop of the pressure being mounted by the Kannada Development Authority and Kannada activists over reservation in employment for Kannada medium students. The idea was…
Bengaluru: A day after Reserve Bank of India (RBI) cautioned Karnataka and other States against “jumping onto the farm-loan waiver bandwagon, by observing that loan waivers impact credit discipline and vitiates credit culture”, the State Government today announced that it will waive off loans taken by small and medium farmers from Co-operative and Agricultural banks….
Bengaluru/Mysuru: A bill which empowers the State Government to fix rates for different types of treatment and bed charges in private hospitals and nursing homes was tabled in the Legislative Assembly on Tuesday. The Karnataka Private Medical Establishments (Amendment) Bill 2017, piloted by Health and Family Welfare Minister K.R. Ramesh Kumar, may come up for…
Bengaluru: In a clear case to save its Excise revenue, the State Cabinet yesterday approved a proposal to denotify the National Highway coming under the urban Civic Bodies limits. The State Cabinet, which met yesterday, took a decision to denotify 858 kms of the total 6,578 kms of National Highway in the State, the move…
Bengaluru: It is reliably learnt that the State Government is contemplating on extending reservation benefits to poor families from upper castes. The Congress Government, which is leaving no stone unturned for retaining power in the 2018 Assembly polls, is now planning to bring poor families from upper castes such as Brahmin and Vaishya communities, under…
Mysuru: Looks like the State Government has finally woken up to the ugly public spat between Acting Vice-Chancellor of University of Mysore Prof. Dayanand Mane and Registrar Prof. R. Rajanna as it has asked the Search Committee constituted to appoint a new Vice-Chancellor to meet in May to finalise probable candidates. The war of words…
Bengaluru – Providing some solace to kidney patients in Karnataka, the State Government has issued an order to extend free dialysis to kidney ailment patients in Government Hospitals. Observing that different hospitals charged different price for dialysis, Government Hospitals coming under the Health and Family Welfare Department have been ordered to provide free dialysis to…
Bengaluru – Bowing to the demands from thousands of Anganawadi workers in Karnataka, the State Government has raised their honorarium to Rs. 8,000 per month. Currently, Anganawadi workers are paid Rs. 6,000 and helpers are paid Rs. 3,000. The decision was taken at a meeting held this morning at Vidhana Soudha that was chaired by…
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