The Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose Memorial Committee in coordination with All India Democratic Youth Organisation, All India Mahila Sanskritik Sanghatane, and the All India Democratic Students’ Organisation will organise the three-day Sanskrutika Janothsava from February 7 to mark the 128th birth anniversary of the revolutionary leader. Committee convener Mahesh Nadagouda and AIMSS district secretary Seema […]
In a continuing quest to encourage small and medium firms in the clean energy sector, Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman has exempted cobalt powder and waste, the scrap of lithium-ion batteries, lead, zinc, and 12 other critical minerals from basic customs duty. In her July 2024 Budget, Ms Sitharaman had already exempted 25 critical minerals […]
The Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) on Saturday (February 1, 2025) successfully conducted three successive flight-trials of the Very Short-Range Air Defence (VSHORAD) system from Chandipur off the coast of Odisha. These tests were carried out against high-speed targets flying at a very low altitude. “During all the three flight-tests, the missiles intercepted and […]
Eight Maoists were gunned down by the security forces in an anti-Naxal operation in Chhattisgarh’s Bijapur district on Saturday (February 1, 2025), a senior police officer said. Also Read | Central committee member among 14 Maoists killed in encounter at Gariaband in Odisha-Chhattisgarh border The officer also said that weapons including an INSAS rifle and […]
Agriculture Minister P. Prasad has emphasised that agricultural land must remain with farmers to ensure food security. The Minister was speaking after inaugurating the 54th Foundation Day celebration of Kerala Agricultural University (KAU) at the KAU Central Auditorium, Vellanikkara. He announced that a new law would be introduced in the current legislative session to make […]
Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman has termed the agriculture sector as the first engine of growth and announced schemes such as the Prime Minister Dhan-Dhaanya Krishi Yojana–a scheme that is likely to benefit 1.7 crore farmers in 100 districts with low crop production–for the sector in the Budget presented in Parliament on Saturday. Union Agriculture […]
An Additional District and Sessions Court (POCSO Special) in Kalaburagi has sentenced a 21-year-old man to 30-year imprisonment and imposed a fine of ₹36,000 on him for raping a minor girl. As per the information provided by Shantaveer Tuppad, the Public Prosecutor in the case, Anil Karagar, a resident of Navanihal at Kamalapur taluk in […]
Terming the Union Budget presented by Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Saturday as a mixed bag with a special focus on the middle class and the state of Bihar, Kalyana Karnataka Chamber of Commerce and Industry (KKCCI), a body of traders and industrialists, expressed its displeasure by stating that the budget did not consider the […]
In another instance of discontent in the ruling Congress in Karnataka, B.R. Patil, MLA, resigned on Saturday from the post of political adviser to Chief Minister Siddaramaiah. Mr. Patil, representing Aland constituency in Kalaburagi district, was appointed as adviser on December 29, 2023. On Saturday, he formally submitted his resignation to the Chief Minister’s Office in […]
Two persons who stole agriculture pump sets from the fields and the receiver of the stolen goods was arrested by the Peddavaduguru police on Saturday. According to police, Talari Sudhir of Ramarajupalle in Pamidi mandal and Obulesu of Erragudi village in Gooty mandal stole the pump sets from agriculture fields in Peddavaduguru and Pamidi mandals […]
