31.01.19 Karnataka (KPSC) Current Affairs

KARNATAKA   Karnataka State launched MyCityMyBudget initiative   MyCityMyBudget initiative was launched in Banguluru, Karnataka. The city Mayor Gangambike Mallikarjun launched the initiative. The initiative provides citizens an opportunity to tell the BBMP exactly on what civic infrastructure issue, the money has to be spent on. Citizens may submit their budget inputs online by visiting www.ichangemycity.com Now the people can send their … Read more

30.01.19 Karnataka (KPSC) Current Affairs

KARNATAKA Karnataka to spend Rs 7,000 crore under Smart City project   The government has put the much-delayed smart city projects on the fast track and has lined up schemes worth Rs 7,000 crore.   The government has so far implemented Rs 1, 499 crore-worth projects in the last six months and has now invited … Read more

29.01.19 Karnataka (KPSC) Current Affairs

KARNATAKA   Karnataka will have to spend Rs 599 crore more to clean 17 polluted rivers   To clean 17 polluted river stretches in the state, including Arkavathi in Bengaluru region, various departments and local administrations across the state will have to spend an estimated Rs 599 crore, according to the Consolidated Revised Action Plans … Read more

27-28.01.19 Karnataka (KPSC) Current Affairs

KARNATAKA   Suttur Jatra Mahotsava from February 1 to 6   Thousands of people from different parts of the State are expected to make a beeline to Suttur Srikshetra on the banks of the Kapila in Mysuru district from February 1 to 6 to celebrate the annual Suttur Jatra that will feature a variety of … Read more

26.01.19 Karnataka (KPSC) Current Affairs

KARNATAKA   Karnataka is losing its coasts to erosion, finds study   Parts of the 300-km shoreline of the State may be slowly eroding, with beaches such as Ullal losing more than 1 m of shoreline annually.   A total of 40% of 30 beaches along Karnataka’s coast face some form of erosion, shows a … Read more

25.01.19 Karnataka (KPSC) Current Affairs

KARNATAKA   Deccan Sultanate bid for global heritage tag headed for UNESCO   The Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) has given green signal to the joint proposal by Karnataka and Telangana for ‘global heritage’ tag for monuments of the erstwhile Deccan Sultanate. The Centre will now make a recommendation to Unesco.   Monuments from Karnataka that will … Read more

24.01.19 Karnataka (KPSC) Current Affairs

KARNATAKA   MoEF approved mini hydel project in ESZ   The Forest Department has issued permission to expand Pioneer Power Corporation Ltd, a private company’s mini-hydel project in the eco-sensitive zone (ESZ) of the Cauvery Wildlife Sanctuary in Mandya district, Karnataka. The project was rejected twice by the State Board for Wildlife.   MoEF is … Read more

23.01.19 Karnataka (KPSC) Current Affairs

KARNATAKA   Karnataka CM to inaugurate Swami Vivekananda memorial in Belagavi   Karnataka Chief Minister D. Kumaraswamyis to inaugurate ‘Vivek Smarak’, the Swami Vivekananda Value Education and Cultural Centre at Belagavi on February 1.  Swami Vivekananda had stayed in the house from October 16-18, 1892, before his sojourn to the U.S. Eleven months later, the monk would deliver the historic speech … Read more

22.01.19 Karnataka (KPSC) Current Affairs

KARNATAKA   Bengaluru voter strength is up by nearly 1.6 lakh; over 17,000 first-timers   Nearly 1.6 lakh more Bengalureans are eligible to vote in the upcoming parliamentary polls likely to be scheduled for April-May this year. More than 10% of them, 17,686 to be precise, will be first-time voters.   There are 89,57,750 voters … Read more

20-21.01.19 Karnataka (KPSC) Current Affairs

KARNATAKA   R.Ravi to be awarded the State level EC award   TheKarnataka Election Commission has selected R.Ravi, former Chief Executive Officer of Dakshina Kannada Zilla Panchayat for the for a State-level Election Commission award. The award will be presented to him for functioning effectively as the Nodal Officer in the Assembly election process. The award will be … Read more