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UTTARAKHAND Cops want 10% dip in accidents With Uttarakhand witnessing a rise in deaths due to road accidents every passing year, the state police department is working out a strategy to reduce the number by 10% in next one year by employing various measures. Till September, 698 people were killed in various accidents in … Read more
KARNATAKA Karnataka was first to make child marriage void in April While the Supreme Court recently criminalized sexual relations between a man and his minor wife, it lauded the passage of an amendment by the Karnataka legislature in April 2017, which declared all future child marriages void. On October 11, the apex court ruled that … Read more
KARNATAKA Casteism comes in the way of Matrupoorna scheme Pregnant women in some villages are refusing to have freshly cooked meals provided to them under the Matrupoorna scheme because it is cooked by women belonging to Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes. Matrupoorna was an ambitious project launched recently by the state government … Read more
UTTARAKHAND Pancheshwar dam displaced to be resettled on irrigation department land ð Tourism and irrigation minister Satpal Maharaj said that he will soon hold talks with UP chief minister Adityanath Yogito get land in Uttarakhand which is currently under UP government’s control to rehabilitate around 33,000 people who would be displaced due to submergence of their villages … Read more
KARNATAKA State to help displaced Kannadigas in Goa Chief Minister Siddaramaiah chaired a meeting of top officials and directed Karnataka State Border Area Development Authority chairman Baburao Chinchansur to conduct a survey on the number of Kannadigas and families living in Goa and their social and economic conditions. Mr Chinchansur has been directed … Read more
UTTARAKHAND Mountain day event in Bageshwar get UN push United Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) has put up information regarding celebrations in villages of Kapkote block in Bageshwar on International Mountain Day on December 11 on its website, along with details of similar events in other countries. The Central Himalayan Institute for Nature & Applied Research … Read more
KARNATAKA Karnataka silk corporation to hold expo in Pondy from Oct 14 to 16 Karnataka silk industries corporation limited (KSIC), a Karnataka government’s undertaking, will hold an exhibition cum sale of Mysore silk products from October 14 to 16. The corporation will display its various products including crepe de chine (light and fine plain-woven silk … Read more
UTTARAKHAND 9 nine govt departments to set up climate change cell in respective sectors In a major achievement for Forest department’s climate change section, nine government departments/sectors have agreed to set up climate change cell in their respective sectors whereby they would plan their future projects as per the guidelines of State Action … Read more
KARNATAKA K’taka CM asks Centre for more coal to state power units Thermal power stations located one each in Bellary and Raichur districts are facing shortage and they have coal stock of less than a day at present. They together contribute 70 million units per day to the state grid. With regard … Read more
KARNATAKA Indira Canteens across Karnataka from January 1 The canteens won’t be restricted to locations where the population is 1 lakh or above. Further, they will be set up in government hospitals, bus stands or railway stations where the footfall of the poor is higher. Accordingly, 121 locations outside Bengaluru have been identified for setting … Read more