July 2020

KARNATAKA Sericulture farmers in trouble The fall in the prices of cocoons over the last three months has forced sericulture farmers to launch an agitation to draw the State government’s attention to their plight. The average price of cocoons, which used to be around ₹480 to ₹500 for every kg of cross-breed variety and ₹600 … Read more

  International Indian and U.S. officials held their scheduled virtual Foreign Office Consultations The two countries had “discussed ways to further enhance mutually beneficial trade and people-to-people ties, including through visa facilitation for students and professionals,” The discussions included ongoing threats to the rules-based international order, bilateral and multilateral diplomatic cooperation, maritime security and the … Read more

KARNATAKA Ordinance on Karnataka land reforms Governor Vajubhai Vala signed the Karnataka Land Reforms (Amendment) Ordinance, 2020 The Ordinance brings sweeping changes to the Karnataka Land Reforms Act, 1961, essentially easing restrictions on buying agricultural land, on who can buy it and the ceiling on extent of land one can hold. The amendment drops Sections … Read more

  International Japan supports India on eastern Ladakh standoff with China Japan said it opposed “any unilateral” attempts to change the status quo in the region. Japanese Ambassador Satoshi Suzuki said Japan hoped for peaceful resolution of the row through dialogues. Navies of the two countries held a joint exercise in the Indian Ocean. Four … Read more

KARNATAKA Water released from Sonna Barrag Since the Bhima catchment area in Karnataka and Maharashtra is receiving good rainfall resulting in increased inflow at the Sonna Barrage built across the Bhima in Afzalpur taluk of Kalaburagi district, 2,500 cusecs of water was released from the barrage into the river cours   International World Bank and … Read more

KARNATAKA innovative mango cultivation As against the convention of planting 40 to 50 mango saplings in an acre, molecular plant pathologist P. Chowdappa has planted 674 saplings in a acre in his farm. While the yield per plant will be low when compared with the conventional planting system, the total yield per acre will be … Read more

  International   WHO experts to visit China as part of COVID-19 investigation World Health Organisation experts will lay the groundwork for a larger mission to investigate the origins of the COVID-19 pandemic. Scientists believe the virus may have originated in bats, then was transmitted through another mammal such such as a civet cat or … Read more

KARNATAKA Karnataka HC stays ban, restrictions imposed on online classe High Court of Karnataka stayed the initial ban and the subsequent curbs imposed on schools against conducting online classes from pre-primary level to class 10. Prima facie the ban and the curbs imposed on conducting online classes violate Articles 21 and 21A of the Constitution, … Read more

KARNATAKA Startup creates crowd-sourced digital platform to manage pandemic startup has developed a new crowd-sourced digital platform — Digital Health Outpost (DHO) — for health workers, the government, and the public. Fuelled by a data aggregation engine that collects information from multiple channels and driven by artificial intelligence, machine learning and data sciences, the geography-agnostic … Read more

    International World Population Day- 11 July World Population Day is an annual event, observed on July 11 every year, which seeks to raise awareness of global population issues. The event was established by the Governing Council of the United Nations Development Programme in 1989. Commemorating World Population Day is important as it emphasizes … Read more