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Totapuri mango farmers slip further into distress as price crash continues

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Totapuri mango farmers slip further into distress as price crash continues

The Cooperation Department Secretary wrote to the Department of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare at the Centre, urging it to increase the quantity of procuring Totapuri mangoes. | Photo Credit: FILE PHOTO Thousands of farmers who have grown Totapuri mangoes have been coming to the Agriculture Produce Market Committee (APMC) mandis and dumping the harvested yield…

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Karnataka: State-wide vigilance committees’ to assist voters during SIR

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Karnataka: State-wide vigilance committees’ to assist voters during SIR

The groups said that the committees will collect daily reports on problems faced by voters during the SIR process and bring them to the attention of officials. | Photo Credit: File photo A coalition of civil society organisations on Monday (July 6) announced the formation of ‘Voter’s Vigilance Committees’ across Karnataka, from the State level to individual…

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Massive 430-acre Peenya Plantation land ordered back to Forest Dept

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Massive 430-acre Peenya Plantation land ordered back to Forest Dept

Between 1996 and 2006, the HMT alienated about 178 acres and 7.2 guntas situated in Survey No 1 and 2 of the Peenya plantation and Survey no 18 and 19 of the Jarakbande Sandal reserve in favour of 44 government agencies, institutions, organisations and private establishments. | Photo Credit: FILE PHOTO In the ongoing controversy…

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Bengaluru’s footpaths belong to everyone but pedestrians

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Bengaluru’s footpaths belong to everyone but pedestrians

If Bengaluru’s roads belong to the vehicles, its foopaths seem to belong to everyone but the pedestrians. From dangling cable wires and piles of construction debris to discarded furniture, garbage and parked vehicles, footpaths provide space for almost everything except those who walk. As roads get choked, vehicles too spill onto the whatever is left of…

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NMC rejects proposals for new government medical colleges in Ramanagara, Kanakapura and Bagalkote

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NMC rejects proposals for new government medical colleges in Ramanagara, Kanakapura and Bagalkote

The construction work of the new campus of RGUHS near Archakarahalli in Ramanagara at a cost of about ₹600 crore is in full swing, and 70% of the work has been completed. | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement The National Medical Commission (NMC) has rejected the State government’s proposal to set up new government medical colleges…

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BJP chief alleges State govt. backing SIR violations, Priyank Kharge hits back

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BJP chief alleges State govt. backing SIR violations, Priyank Kharge hits back

The ruling Congress and the Opposition continued to spar over the ongoing Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls, with Karnataka BJP president B.Y. Vijayendra accusing the State government of “facilitating violations” and Home Minister Priyank Kharge asserting that the State government was neither framing the rules nor directing Booth Level Officers (BLOs) on how…

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‘Free Bird’: Bengaluru Central Prison launches apparel brand handcrafted by inmates

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‘Free Bird’: Bengaluru Central Prison launches apparel brand handcrafted by inmates

‘FREE BIRD-Tailored for Change’ shirts handcrafted by skilled inmate artisans under the Karnataka Prison Livelihood & Rehabilitation Initiative. | Photo Credit: SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT The Parappana Agrahara Central Prison in Bengaluru has launched “Free Bird”, a new brand of premium ready-made linen shirts stitched by prison inmates as part of an ambitious rehabilitation and skill-development initiative….

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Why Bengaluru is India’s deadliest metropolitan city for deaths arising from civic negligence

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Why Bengaluru is India’s deadliest metropolitan city for deaths arising from civic negligence

It was around 8 p.m. on July 14, 2023, when tragedy struck 18-year-old Rajashekar K.V. He was walking on Cunningham Road in the heart of the city when a huge peepal tree fell on him, causing severe pelvic injuries that left his lower body immobilised. Rajashekar had come to Bengaluru from Chickballapur just 20 days…

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Boulder collapse near Bengaluru: Half-eaten meals remain where a routine workday at quarry turned fatal

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Boulder collapse near Bengaluru: Half-eaten meals remain where a routine workday at quarry turned fatal

Lunch boxes lying at a stone quarry in Hulukenahalli village in Tavarekere Hobli on Bengaluru’s outskirts on Thursday. | Photo Credit: K. MURALI KUMAR Half-eaten meals packed from home lay scattered next to unopened plastic water bottles, while two earthmovers and six drilling machines standing silent were among the first signs that work had come to…

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