june-2022

KARNATAKA Karnataka govt may defer zilla panchayat, taluk panchayat polls Facing a stiff challenge of completing the process of determining reservation for OBCs and completing delimitation of wards across the existing 30 ZPs and 176 TPs, the Karnataka government may defer these polls to beyond the assembly elections which is likely in April-May next year. … Read more

KARNATAKA K’taka ranking slips in life expectancy at birth table In four decades, Karnataka’s life expectancy at birth has gone down from the second best to the lowest in south India. As per ‘Abridged Life Tables — 2015-19’ of the Sample Registration System (SRS), Karnataka’s life expectancy at birth in 1970-75 was 55.2 years, the … Read more

KARNATAKA Data vouchers on anganwadi workers’ phones expire; digital initiative falters Both the state and central governments have been aggressively pushing the cause of digital administration, and although the advantages of many such initiatives are evident, the beneficiaries of many such schemes, on the other hand, are complaining of poor implementation on the part of … Read more

KARNATAKA Karnataka to grow bamboo on 57,000 ha: Minister Karnataka will grow bamboo on 57,000 hectares in the state in the next two years, said forest minister Umesh V Katti. He was speaking after launching a project of planting 10 lakh saplings of various fruit-bearing trees, through the Sri KshetraDharmasthala Rural Development Project and forest … Read more

KARNATAKA Centre for Brain Research (CBR) at IISC, Bengaluru The Centre for Brain Research (CBR) has been set up at Indian Institute of Science (IISc), at a cost of Rs 280 crore. During the Programme, Prime Minister laid the foundation stone for BagchiParthasarathyMultispeciality Hospital. It is 832-bedded hospital. The CBR is one of its kind … Read more