With the government colleges gearing up to resume the academic year with physical classes from November 17, the colleges are having inadequate guest faculty, which is an issue could have been fixed earlier. Nearly, 14,500 guest lectures are not paid their monthly salaries from the time the lockdown commenced in March. Alongside, over as many…
Bharatiya Janta Party (BJP) candidate Munirathna representing Rajarajeshwari Nagar (RR Nagar) has emerged victorious with 57,672 votes, defeating the Congress candidate H Kusuma and also JD-S candidate V Krishnamurthy on Tuesday. Alongside, BJP candidate Dr Rajesh Gowda, has taken the major lead with the vote count of 63,299, which has been updated after 20 rounds…
The Department of Higher Education has drafted and provided with Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs), based on the UGC guidelines with reference to resuming the degree, engineering and diploma colleges in the state starting from November 17. Deputy Chief Minister, Dr CN Ashwatha Narayana, who is also in-charge of the higher education minister intimated on Monday…
A study conducted by a team of American and Indian researchers as randomized Covid-19 testing, revealed that as much as 44.5% of Karnataka’s population was infected with Coronavirus by August end. This study stands in complete difference to the sero-survey conducted by state’s officials which estimated 27.3% of the state was exposed to Covid-19. This…
The Karnataka Government announced a hike in the power tariff, earlier last week. The approval passed by The Karnataka Regulatory Commission, revised the power tariff by 5.4 % increase starting from November 1. The opposition parties criticized the move announced by BJP-led state government. Congress spokesperson, N Chaluvaraya Swamy condemned the hike passed by the…
A count of 20,748 trees will be chopped off in Karnataka limits to make way for constructing the proposed Bengaluru-Chennai eight lane Expressway under Phase , stretching across 71 kilometres and touching the borders of Tamil Nadu. As many as 30,000 people will be affected by the acquiring of the lands. The expressway, having the…
Ex-IAS officer, from Karnataka cadre, S Sasikant Senthil, who had given his resignation in 2019 stating the reason regarding his inability to continue when “fundamental building blocks of diverse democracy are being compromised,” will be representing Congress Party by joining in Tamil Nadu on Monday. In conversation with media, he confirmed, “Yes. I have decided…
With the objective of developing transparency regarding the Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike’s (BBMP) management and administration, the Commissioner and Administrator on Saturday introduced a restored website which will be updated with the information and records of all the projects undertaken from 2015 for the reference of the residents. BBMP Administrator, Gaurav Shukla, who started his…
In a sero survey conducted in Bengaluru Urban in the month of September, it was reported that 22 per cent of the people who participated in the sero survey had pre-existing antibodies which were indicative of past infections and 9.2 % had active infections. Overall, the Covid-19 prevalence rate in the city is at 29.8%….
A Bengaluru based-start-up, nurtured from Indian Institute of Science (IISc) will be producing a Covid-19 vaccine, which, can be effectively stored even at 37 degree Celsius, which will be quite a big advantage for India as it is devoid of adequate facilities for cold chain storage. Biophysicist Raghavan Varadarjan, leading the start-up company named Mynvax,…
