Karnataka

Bengaluru, Nov 20: The government has issued a circular banning smoking in hotels, pubs, barsand restaurants across all urban local bodies in Karnataka. The circular does not cover city corporations, including Bengaluru. Urban development department minister UT Khader said establishments cannot have smoking zones without prior permission. As per the circular issued on November 17, the government

Mysuru, Nov 20: State Sugarcane Growers Association president Kurbur Shanthakumar on Monday alleged that sugar factories owned by Belagavi district minister Ramesh Jarkiholi owe Rs 19 crore to farmers who supplied sugarcane to his factories. Belagavi has nearly 23 sugar factories including those belonging to the minister. But the factories have failed to pay the full amount to farmers, he told

Bengaluru, Nov 19: The Karnataka cabinet Monday decided to constitute a cabinet sub-committee to look into possible changes in government holidays in view of growing opinion against such vacation on grounds that it affected public work. The cabinet which approved 21 days of generalholidays for 2019 for various festivals and other events decided to form the sub-committee to discuss about the nature

Bengaluru, Nov 19: Karnataka Chief Minister H D Kumaraswamy today attacked Opposition BJP for allegedly provoking farmers and forcing them to stage agitation against JDS-Congress Coalition government headed by him. Addressing a press conference here on Monday, he said that "I will not bow to the tactics by State BJP headed by former Chief Minister B S Yeddyurappa." Mr Kumaraswamy said that since

Sabarimala, Nov 19: Dakshina Kannada BJP MP Nalin Kumar Kattil and Party Rajya Sabha member V Muralidharan will visit Lord Ayyappa temple in Sabarimala on Tuesday to assess the preparations for the two-month long annual pilgrimage. Both the MPs will reach Nilakkal at 1000 hrs and proceed to Pamba and Sannidanam to see the actual situation, according to a release here. The visit of the MPs was in

Bengaluru, Nov 19: Karnataka Chief Minister H D Kumaraswamy came down against the comments made by Prime Minister Narendra Modi against the State government over farm loan waiver during his election speech in Chhattisgarh saying that it was the Modi government that controlled PSU banks that asked them to issue arrest warrant against the State farmers for not properly repaying the farm loans

Belagavi, Nov 19: Karnataka Legislative Assembly Speaker Ramesh Kumar on Monday said that it is the responsibility of the Legislators to utilise the Session to get redressel of the problems faced in their constitutency. Speaking to newsmen here after taking stock of the arrangements made for the Winter Session beginning here at the Suvarna Soudha from December 10, along with Legislative Council

New Delhi, Nov 19: The Centre Monday approved over Rs 546 crore as additional assistance to Karnataka, a large part of which was hit by floods and landslides this year. A decision in this regard was taken at a meeting of the high-level committee chaired by Home Minister Rajnath Singh and attended by Finance Minister Arun Jaitley, Agriculture Minister Radha Mohan Singh besides others, an official

Agra, Nov 19: Rashtriya Bajrang Dal’s (RBD) women wing activists on Sunday performed ‘aarti’ and sprinkled ‘Gangajal’ in the Taj Mahal in protest against alleged violation of the Archeological Survey of India’s (ASI) norms, which, among other things, restrict the offering of ‘namaz’ or prayer inside the premises of the UNESCO World Heritage Site on Fridays. Speaking to ANI, Meen Diwakar, the

Bengaluru, Nov 19: Karnataka has achieved Open Defection free status in Rural areas and the Rural Development and Panchayat Raj Department has completed construction of over 45 lakh toilets across households in the State. The Department on Monday announced that all the 70.2 lakh rural households have now been provided with individual toilets, thus reducing incidences of open defecation in the