Karnataka Chief Minister BS Yediyurappa on Monday has presented the budget for the state wherein he emphasized on the slew of measures and allocation in the state Budget inclining towards the safety and empowerment of women. Yediyurappa had mentioned that the Budget 2021 will be beneficial for the women earlier in the day. The brick…
The Karnataka Road Development Corporation Limited (KRDCL) have axed over 2,300 trees for the purpose of road-widening and were planning to chop down 7,500 more. However, Karnataka High Court stopped the felling of trees and the Karnataka Preservation of Trees Act will not be applicable for the road widening projects on the outskirts of Bengaluru….
Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagere Palike (BBMP) Commissioner N Manjunatha Prasad had issued instructions to the health officers to accelerate the Covid-19 vaccination drive along with increasing the testing for keeping up to check on the surge in the Covid-19 cases. While speaking at the virtual meetings to the health officers, Prasad revealed that the government had…
Raghav Saboo, a resident from Sharada Colony, located in Basaveshwara Nagar was given a vaccination slot at Chord Road Hospital on Friday for his grand parents post registration of their details on the Co-WIN portal. However, when they went to the hospital, the authorities revealed they had no vaccine supply. Along with Saboo, there were…
Six ministers from the BJP-led government of Karnataka have appealed to a city court on Friday, asking for an injunction against newspapers and TV channels due to publishing defamatory content against them. The six ministers who took the move are Agriculture Minister BC Patil, Cooperation Minister HT Somashekar, Labour Minister Shivaram Hebbar, Health and Family…
A seething member, from All India Progressive Women’s Association (AIPWA) stated, “Enabler of crime is as much of a criminal as one found guilty. By pronouncing the statement in the highest court of Indian Judiciary, the Chief Justice of India has committed a crime.” AIPWA members had gathered around the Mysore Bank Circle on Saturday…
The Enforcement Directorate (ED) has filed for assets estimated to be Rs 79.70 lakh worth for income tax official Abhishek Tripathi and his family over the charges of money laundering, an official revealed on Thursday. The official said in a statement, “Order has been issued under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA) to attach…
The rate of mutation of the Covid-19 virus has been surging in Bengaluru when compared with the national average, according to the observation reports from the researchers at Indian Institute of Science (IISc). Professor Utpal Tatu, Department of Biochemistry, IISc headed the research team, who discovered that isolates or viral samples collected from the nasal…
Bengaluru has taken the lead as the top performer in the Million+ category over the final rankings of Ease of Living Index (EoLI) 2020 along with the Municipal Performer Index (MPI) 2020. Pune got the second rank, and the other cities that scored well are Ahmedabad, Chennai, Surat, Navi Mumbai, Coimbatore, Indore, Vadodara, and Greater…
The High Court has issued an order to the state government to announce as to whether it is willing to organize a study on the grant of temporary permit to extract sand from the coastal regulation zone. The PIL was pertaining to sand mining permits at Phalguni river located in the Dakshina Kannada. A division…
