Bengaluru: 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…
State Govt. to enhance its share of institutional quota seats by 20%
July 18, 2017Bengaluru: 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…
5% quota in civil services for Kannada medium students
July 7, 2017Bengaluru: 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…
Co-operative farm loans up to Rs. 50,000 waived off
June 21, 2017Bengaluru: 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….
Private Hospitals surprised at Govt. move to fix rates for treatments
June 14, 2017Bengaluru/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…















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