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Karnataka Chief Minister D.K. Shivakumar Chief Minister D.K. Shivakumar on Wednesday met over 200 global capability centres (GCC) leaders, corporate heads and senior government officials to discuss the priorities shaping the next phase of Karnataka’s GCC ecosystem. He had dialogues with them on AI, talent, infrastructure and next phase of growth at KATALYST CONNECT, an…
Nearly 23% of Karnataka’s youth force under 35 years is neither working nor studying even with the State’s unemployment rate at 8.6%. A lack of or inadequate training with fewer opportunities for work is pushing the youth force to leave their homes and migrate to Bengaluru, straining the State capital, says a report on the…
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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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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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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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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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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…
Cement Manju, Sakaleshpur MLA, visiting the accident spot at Agrahara on Sunday (July 5). | Photo Credit: SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT Two houses at Agrahara in Sakaleshpur here were damaged after a retaining wall under construction at a private layout collapsed on them during rain on Saturday (July 4) night. The houses, belonging to Madhu Kumar and…
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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BLOs reveal that there was very little guidance on the online submission process during their training. They said the focus was largely on digitising documents and using the ECINet app. | Photo Credit: ALLEN EGENUSE J. With the enumeration phase gathering pace, many people filling the online form for the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) are left wondering…
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