Starting this Monday, households across Karnataka will spend less on their daily dairy essentials, as Karnataka Milk Federation (KMF) has announced a price cut on several popular Nandini products. The reduction comes after the central govt slashed GST on essential food items from 12 per cent to 5 per cent, prompting KMF to pass on…
Karnataka chief minister Siddaramaiah Saturday highlighted the plight of backward communities, saying those jailed or murdered in the name of religion in coastal districts of the state largely belong to these groups.Speaking at a Kuruba event in Gadag, he wondered how long the lives of children from backward communities will continue to be sacrificed. “Those…
Bengaluru: The Karnataka high court has refused to issue a direction to regularise the illegal admission of four postgraduate medical students and directed the National Medical Commission (NMC) to take appropriate action against the two colleges where they were admitted.Of the four, Tisa Robinson (Thrissur, Kerala) for pathology, Ashish Appasaheb Patil (Kolhapur, Maharashtra) for radiology,…
ಬೆಂಗಳೂರು: ರಾಜ್ಯದಲ್ಲಿ ಪ್ರವಾಹ ಮತ್ತು ಅಕಾಲಿಕ ಮಳೆಯಿಂದ ಸಂಕಷ್ಟದಲ್ಲಿದ್ದ ರೈತರಿಗೆ ಕೇಂದ್ರ ಸರ್ಕಾರವು ಭಾರಿ ಬೆಂಬಲ ನೀಡಿದೆ. ರಾಜ್ಯ ಸರ್ಕಾರದ ಪ್ರಸ್ತಾವನೆಯ ಮೇರೆಗೆ, 2025-26ರ ಖಾರಿಫ್ (ಮುಂಗಾರು) ಋತುವಿನಲ್ಲಿ ಬೆಳೆದ ಪ್ರಮುಖ ಐದು ಬೆಳೆಗಳನ್ನು ಬೆಂಬಲ ಬೆಲೆ ಯೋಜನೆಯಡಿ (Price Support Scheme – PSS) ಖರೀದಿಸಲು ಕೇಂದ್ರ ಕೃಷಿ ಸಚಿವಾಲಯ ಅನುಮತಿ ನೀಡಿದೆ.ಕೇಂದ್ರ ಸರ್ಕಾರದ ಈ ನಿರ್ಧಾರವು ಕರ್ನಾಟಕದ ರೈತರಿಗೆ ಹೆಚ್ಚಿನ ಆದ್ಯತೆ ನೀಡಿದಂತಾಗಿದೆ. ಕೇಂದ್ರ ಸಚಿವ ಪ್ರಹ್ಲಾದ ಜೋಶಿಯವರ ಮನವಿಗೆ ಕೇಂದ್ರ ಸರ್ಕಾರ ಸಕಾರಾತ್ಮಕವಾಗಿ…
Potholes not created, develop due to natural causes, says DKS BENGALURU: Responding to mounting criticism over Bengaluru’s pothole-ridden roads, Karnataka Deputy Chief Minister DK Shivakumar on Saturday said the issue stems from natural causes like heavy rains, not deliberate negligence. Shivakumar, who also holds the Bengaluru Development portfolio, told reporters near his Sadashivanagar residence, “We…
BENGALURU: When the doorbell rang at her co-living paying guest (PG) accommodation in Whitefield at 3am on Sept 16, she thought it was her friend. But what followed was sheer horror – a man known to her barged in, sexually assaulted and extorted her.Rithu (name changed), 24, a private bank employee, told police she thought…
Bengaluru: Minister Priyank Kharge Friday accused the Election Commission of India (EC) of lying about sharing full details on the alleged voter deletion scam in Kalaburagi’s Aland constituency ahead of the 2023 assembly elections.Lok Sabha opposition leader Rahul Gandhi had, Thursday, accused Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar of shielding “vote chors” (vote thieves). Reacting to…
Bengaluru: Friday to Friday, road horror revisited in Balegere-Panathur. On Sept 12, 20 pupils had a miraculous escape when their school bus nearly flipped after hitting a crater in a partially waterlogged stretch in Balegere-Panathur. Yesterday, two more school buses lost traction and were stuck in the slushy tracks of the same pothole-ridden road.With Balegere…
Bengaluru: When her doorbell rang at her co-living paying guest (PG) accommodation in Whitefield at 3am on Sept 16, she thought it was her friend. But what followed was horror — a man known to her barged in, sexually assaulted, and extorted her.Rithu (name changed), 24, a private bank employee, told police that she mistook…
Bengaluru: Swami Sivasubramanian, vice president of data and AI at AWS, believes agentic AI marks one of the biggest shifts in technology, one that moves beyond generative AI systems producing text, images, or video, into models capable of reasoning, breaking down goals into steps, and executing plans with tools. “Agentic AI is going to be…
