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 President of Nepal, Bidhya Devi Bhandari, released a special anthology about the life of Mahatma Gandhi in a ceremony, titled, ‘maile bujheko gaandhii’ which means ‘My understanding about Gandhi’. The anthology was launched by Bidhya Devi Bhandari at a special ceremony held at Shital Niwas in Kathmandu in the presence of Indian Ambassador Vinay…
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…
The Fifteenth Finance Commission (XVFC), headed over by Chairman NK Singh, presented the report for the time frame from 2021-22 till 2025-26 to the President of India, Ram Nath Kovind, according to the government statement released on Monday. The report titled “Finance Commission in Covid Times” was submitted together by members of the commission, Ajay…
Prime Minister Narendra Modi was a part of the inauguration ceremony via video-conferencing and laid the foundation stone of several development projects in Varanasi. He said the development projects will be examples reflecting the overall development in Varanasi. The projects are estimated to be worth Rs. 614 crore. In his address, PM Modi said, “I…
The CSIL company initiated with the process of production of the Covid-19 vaccine candidate developed by University of Oxford and AstraZeneca on Monday, according to the Australian media reports. As per the data given by Sydney’s 2GB radio, as many as 30 million doses will be subjected to manufacturing in Victoria starting from Monday. Australian…
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…
The Uttar Pradesh government is supposed to launch a new website for enabling people to be a part of the virtual ‘Deepotsav’ celebration, which is supposedly scheduled for November 13. According to a statement, Prime Minister Narendra Modi, will also be present in the virtual ceremony, which will be organized at Shri Ramlala Darbar in…
India, with the objective of nurturing the friendly ties with Nepal, and spreading “positivity and enhanced coordination between the two countries”, has presented a gift of 28 ICU ventilators to the Nepal government to support their battle with Covid-19 pandemic. Indian Ambassador, Vinay Mohan Kwatra, presented the ICU ventilators to the Health Minister Bhanu Bhakta…
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…
