The World Economic Forum (WEF) has applauded and appreciated the Covid-19 war room of the Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagere Palike (BBMP) for its utilization of technology to fight the battle of Covid-19. In a comprehensive report released by WEF titled ‘Technology and Data Governance in the Cities: Indian Cities at the Forefront of the Fight Against…
The second phase of polling for the 144 Gram Panchayats based in several regions of Dakshina Kannada like Belthangady, Puttur, Sullia and Kaduba taluks, has begun on Sunday morning. For the 1,541 seats in the 114 Gram Panchayats, as many as 3,421 candidates are contesting in the elections. At the Hirebandadi Gram Panchayat Limits, among…
Jharkhand Chief Minister Hemant Soren will be delivering a keynote lecture on the subject of ‘tribal rights, sustainable development and welfare policies in Jharkhand via video conferencing during the 18th annual ‘India Conference’ at Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, which will be organized from February 10 to 21, 2021. Soren has accepted the invitation sent to…
As the Indian drug regulator gears up to have a possible vaccine roll-out by January, is reviewing the UK’s move regarding approving the Oxford’s Covid-19 vaccine in the upcoming week, prior to making the decision of giving emergency use authorization to the Serum Institute of India (SII) which is manufacturing the shots here. When the…
Bihar Cabinet has given their approval for the proposal passed to create 103 new nagar panchayats and eight new nagar parishads, further upgrading of 32 nagar panchayats to nagar parishads and also permitted five nagar parishads to be municipal corporations. The State Cabinet has further passed the proposal to expand 12 Nagar Nikay. The Bihar…
Karnataka Chief Minister BS Yediyurappa used the word ‘selfish’ for those who are protesting against the contentious farm laws on Friday and stated that around 99 per cent of the farmers supported the reforms. While addressing the event organized for farmers on the birth anniversary of ex-Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee, Yediyurappa promised about having…
Former Prime Minister and supremo of JD (S) party, Deve Gowda on Saturday promised to keep the regional party alive and will make a try to come to power in the Karnataka’s Assembly elections to be held in 2023, on its own. Regarding the speculation of merging with BJP, Deve Gowda, while addressing the news…
The farmer unions protesting along the borders of New Delhi against the three contentious farm laws passed by the Centre in September have proposed to have the next round of talks scheduled with the Centre on December 29. Yogendra Yadav, President, Swaraj India, said the government wanted to have a discussion with the farmers. At…
South Africa’s Health Minister has dismissed the claim of the British counterpart that the new Covid-19 strain in the country is more dangerous and has higher transmission than a similar strain in spreading the UK. Zwelini Mkhize said in a statement released late Thursday stated, “At present, there is no evidence that the 501.V2 (variant)…
From the 13 people that returned from UK to Karnataka, a report will released about any incidence of the new strain of Covid-19 on Monday, as per the experts of the National Institute of Mental Health and Neurosciences (NIMHANS). Presently, the laboratory of NIMHANS is working on 12 samples and another is shortly going to…
