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The Hindu - Karnataka

Sat, 05 Jul 2008

•	Thousands turn up for inauguration of High Court Circuit Bench
	DHARWAD: Thousands of people from various districts of North Karnataka turned up for the inauguration of the Circuit Bench of the High Court of Karnataka at the Water and Land Management Institute near here on Friday. When Chief Justice ...

•	A mere vehicle for a new star
	His uncle is still at it: wowing admirers across generations, reinventing himself with every new venture. Now comes Aamir Khan’s nephew Imran, whose face does nothing to make you question his genes. He resembles Aamir in more than a ...

•	For farmers
•	Farmers protest
	DAVANGERE: People of Holesirigere laid a siege to the Grameen Bank in Holesirigere in protest against the alleged discrimination in the waiver of farm loans. Farmers who had not paid any instalment so far were getting benefits under the loan ...

•	Offshore patrol vessel launched
	PANAJI: An offshore patrol vessel (OPV), indigenously designed and built by Goa Shipyard Limited (GSL), south Goa-based defence undertaking, was launched on Friday at GSL’s ship building yard at Vasco-da-Gama in south Goa. Bharti ...

•	Size does matter: Bangalore’s BPO godzillas prove IT Business sense
	The heavy weights have IT all sewn up. The top three Indian players in the business of providing off-shore Information Technology services for outsourcing companies, have cornered almost half the total business — 46.6 per cent to be ...

•	Higher price for tomato soon
	KOLAR: Even as the minimum support price issue for tomato in Kolar and Chickballapur districts remained unresolved, MLA Varthur Prakash has promised steps to mitigate the miseries of the tomato growers. Mr. Prakash told presspersons ...

•	Anganwadi staff seek raise
•	Sell sugar factory: MP
	DAVANGERE: Siddeshwar, Davangere MP, has written to the Government urging it to sell the Bhadra Sugar Factory at Doddabathi near Davangere to private entrepreneurs so that the factory would be re-started to benefit its large number of ...

•	King cobra caught
	SIRSI: A 12-foot king cobra was caught by Marshal of Karwar in the powerhouse of the Kadra Dam near Karwar on Thursday. Officials informed Mr. Marshal immediately after they noticed the snake in the powerhouse. The King Cobra was handed ...

•	MLA announces Rs. 5-crore plan for Chitradurga
	Infrastructure proposals in the pipeline for the betterment of the city

•	Farmers lay siege to bank
	DAVANGERE: People of Holesirigere and surrounding villages laid a siege to the Grameen Bank in Holesirigere in protest against the alleged discrimination in the waiver of farm loans. Farmers who had not paid any instalment so far were ...

•	Earthquake
	PANAJI: An earthquake measuring 1.09 on the Richter scale struck Valkinni Sanguem in south Goa on Thursday afternoon. The Goa Meteorology Department confirmed the quake. Sanguem is a mining area where Salaulim Dam is located. The Ravalnath ...

•	Helping tribal people fight for their rights
	Activists use street play as a tool for transformation

•	Warm, humorous and wonderfully detailed
	Cast: Nadine Labaki, Yasmine Al-Masri, Joanna Moukarzel, Gisèle Aouad, Director: Nadine Labaki The caramel of the title refers to a paste made of sugar, lemon juice and water that is boiled ...

•	In Bangalore Today
	Sri Vishnusahasramana Sudhe: Discourse by Swami Chandreshananda, 2nd A Cross, Vivekananda Marg, Devasandra, K.R. Puram, 5.30 p.m. Ramana Gita: Discourse on “Ramana Gita” by K.G. Subraya ...

•	Gold ornaments taken away
	Bangalore: Gold ornaments valued at over Rs. 15 lakh were reportedly taken away from a house in Fraser Town police limits recently. According to the police, Asma Imtiaz, a resident of M.M. Road, has lodged a complaint stating that she ...

•	Heroin haul at airport; two held
	BANGALORE: Sleuths of Directorate of Revenue Intelligence (DRI), Bangalore, arrested two foreign nationals and recovered from them heroin valued at Rs. 9.57 crore from the Bangalore International Airport on Wednesday. The alleged ...

•	More cases of chikungunya
	Bangalore: From Srirampura area, chikungunya has now spread to the areas coming under Hosahalli Referral Hospital in the west zone in the city. As many as 81 cases of chikungunya were detected by doctors of Hosahalli Referral Hospital. ...

•	Fire stations
	BANGALORE: To meet the increasing safety needs of small towns and cities, the State Government has proposed to establish Fire and Emergency Services in 69 taluk headquarters in the State in the next four years. Addressing presspersons here on ...

•	Budget session from July 17
	Bangalore: The Budget session of the Karnataka legislature will commence on July 17 and Chief Minister B.S. Yeddyurappa, who is also Finance Minister, will present a fresh State Budget on the same day at 12 noon according to the Legislative ...

•	Bankers take stock of loan waiver
	Bangalore: The 105th edition of the State Level Bankers’ Committee — Karnataka (SLBC) met on Friday to review the performance of the banking sector in terms of supply of credit to the priority sector. It focussed on the performance ...

•	Circuit Benches may not reduce number of pending cases
	‘They will encourage more people to file appeals against lower court verdict’

•	‘Provide grant for women-oriented films’
•	Trucks are back on road
	Bangalore: Following an assurance from the Ministry of Shipping, Road Transport and Highways that the hike in toll tax would be rolled back and that the old rates (prevailing earlier to December 1, 2007 from when the hike came into force) ...

•	‘Farm panel needed’
	BANGALORE: Karnataka Prantha Raitha Sangha (KPRS) has urged the State Government to set up a State-level farmers’ commission to study the various issues of farmers. Sangha State unit president Maruti Manpade told presspersons here on ...

•	High Court quashes tax notice on banks
	BANGALORE: The Karnataka High Court on Thursday said that branches of banks were not liable to pay profession tax. Justice D.V. Shylendra Kumar passed the order on petitions by Vijaya Bank and State Bank of Mysore. The banks had ...

•	Court moots academy for tax officials
	BANGALORE: The Karnataka High Court has suggested to the State Government that it set up an exclusive academy to train officials of the Commercial Tax Department so that they could pass detailed and considered order when they assess tax. A ...

•	Good monsoon triggers spurt in elephant attacks
	36 people killed by elephants in 2007: highest since 2003

•	Chikungunya spreads to new areas
•	Wine policy notified
	Procedures for production and marketing wine simplified

•	BESCOM grievance meetings in many areas today
	Bangalore: The Bangalore Electricity Supply Company Limited (BESCOM) will conduct consumer grievance meetings (Janasampakra Sabhas) at the following locations in each sub-division on Saturday. From 10 a.m. to 1 p.m.: ...

•	Language policy: State urged to move apex court
	Promulgating Ordinance to circumvent the High Court decision suggested

•	Avoid panic buying: oil firms
	BANGALORE: Public sector oil companies have appealed to consumers not to resort to panic buying as there is sufficient stock of petrol and diesel in the State. “If people stop panic buying, normality could be restored within a ...

•	Air Force opposes BIAL plan on second runway
	It has been thought of south of the existing runway

•	9,000 part-time teachers to be appointed
	BANGALORE: To enable students to score high marks in the Secondary School Leaving Certificate (SSLC) examination, the Government has decided to appoint 9,000 teachers on part-time basis in 3,000 pre-Matric students’ hostels run by the ...

•	BBMP told to check mosquito menace
	Bangalore: A group of citizens held a demonstration here on Friday demanding that the Bruhat Bangalore Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) take steps to free the city from the mosquito menace and stop the spread of chikungunya and communicable ...

•	Green Helpline to guide citizens in enhancing greenery in city
	Forest Department to launch special drive from July 5 to August 15

•	Chikungunya spreads to new areas
	Bangalore: Even as Health authorities claim that they are doing their best to contain the spread of chikungunya to new areas, a few confirmed cases have been reported from Koramangala, Mahalakshmi Layout, Yeshwanthpur, Hosahalli, Magadi Road ...

•	Constable dies in freak accident
	BANGALORE: A City Armed Reserve head constable died in a freak accident when he went to inspect a body lying on the railway track in Chickpet traffic police station limits on Friday. Kempaiah (50), a driver with the CAR headquarters, was ...

•	Protest by BJP Minority Morcha
	BANGALORE: Members of the Bharatiya Janata Party’s Minority Morcha took out a protest march in Bangalore on Friday to condemn the Jammu and Kashmir Government’s decision to withdraw the land allotted to the Shri Amarnathji Shrine ...

•	Plastic industry bandh on July 7
	BANGALORE: The Karnataka State Plastic Association has said the industry will be put to serious crisis due to irregular supply of raw materials and increase in prices, if the authorities do not come to its rescue. The association said ...

•	44 PU students debarred
	BANGALORE: Forty-four students were debarred on Friday for indulging in malpractices during the second year pre-university examination held for Geography and Mathematics subjects. Eleven students each have been debarred in Bijapur and ...

•	Custody extended
	Belgaum: The JMFC-IV Court in Belgaum on Friday extended the judicial custody of terror suspects Liyaquat Ali, Nasir Patel and Imtiyaz till July 18. All the three youths, alleged to have links with the banned SIMI organisation, were arrested ...

•	Government staff take out protest march in Belgaum
	Various organisations condemn attack on irrigation official

•	MLA arrested
	Belgaum: The police on Friday arrested BJP MLA Abhay Kumar Patil and four of his supporters in connection with the attack on the Chief Engineer, Irrigation, North Zone, Belgaum, on Thursday. He was produced in the JMFC IV Court which granted ...

•	Symposium
	Belgaum: A two-day symposium on “Maxillofacial infection and developmental disorders of craniofacial region” was inaugurated by C. Bhasker Rao, Principal, SDM College of Dental Sciences, Dharwad, here on Friday. Speaking on the ...

•	Rates revised
	Bijapur: Syndicate Bank has announced an upward revision in interest rates on deposits up to 90 basis points. In a press release, bank manager Nasirullah said the new upward revision of interest rates came into effect on Wednesday. The rates ...

•	Nagur statue to be unveiled tomorrow
	BIJAPUR: The statue of the freedom fighter Basavaraj Nagur will be unveiled on the premises of Dr. Basavaraj Nagur Ayurvedic Medical College and Hospital here on Sunday at 10 a.m. by Siddeshwar Swamiji of Gnyanyogashram. Speaking to ...

•	A red letter day for people of Hyderabad Karnataka
•	KMAT tomorrow
	GULBARGA: The Common Entrance Test KMAT 2008 to fill 50 per cent of seats under management quota in private, unaided MBA and MCA colleges affiliated to different universities will be held at the Doddappa Appa Institute of MBA on Sunday. ...

•	Kharge refutes Chief Minister’s charge
	Congress to take delegation to Prime Minister on Sunday; other parties invited to be part of it

•	One policy sought for payment of compensation
	GULBARGA: Opposition Leader in the Legislative Assembly and Karnataka Pradesh Congress Committee president M. Mallikarjun Kharge on Friday expressed concern over the continued suicides by farmers in the State and accused the Government of ...

•	Inaugurated
	GULBARGA: Cooperation Minister Lakshman Savadi on Friday inaugurated four new suits added to the existing two in the Iwan-e-Shahi Government Guesthouse in Gulbarga. Mr. Savadi was accompanied by Animal Husbandry Minister Revu Naik Belamgi, the ...

•	Takes charge
	GULBARGA: K.A. Satyamurthy on Friday took charge as Deputy Commissioner of Gulbarga district from the Chief Executive Officer of the Zilla Panchayat P.C. Jaffer who was holding additional charge as Deputy Commissioner. Mr. Satyamurthy, ...

•	Hassan farmer commits suicide
	HASSAN: Kambe Gowda, a farmer at Basavaghatta village in Dudda hobli of Hassan taluk, who consumed poison on June 2, died on Friday. With this, seven farmers have committed suicide in Hassan district since the Bharatiya Janata Party came to ...

•	Yeddyurappa criticised for ‘halting’ work
	‘We are ready to face inquiry,’ challenges Revanna and asks, ‘Is the Chief Minister ready?’

•	‘Take steps against chikungunya’
	Officials asked to visit villages

•	State to set up agriculture commission
	Priority to agriculture in Budget

•	Yeddyurappa doles out several promises for Hubli-Dharwad
	Government to invest Rs. 2,966 crore in six years in the twin cities

•	‘Address infrastructure needs of twin cities’
•	Subbaiah seeks support to secure rights over trees
•	Vacant posts of doctor to be filled in four months
	District hospitals to have four-bed intensive care units in two years

•	Port and dock workers to go on strike
	MANGALORE: The trade unions representing about 1,000 port workers and 750 dock workers at the New Mangalore Port have served a strike notice on the Port Management in response to a call given by the All India Port and Dock Workers’ ...

•	Four PU colleges refund over Rs. 6-lakh donations
	Drive launched against malpractices in admission process

•	Minister warns of stern action against violations of norms
	MANGALORE: Minister for Primary and Secondary Education Vishweshwara Hegde Kageri has said that violation of Pre-University Board norms by private and aided colleges will be dealt with sternly. He was speaking to presspersons on the ...

•	Policeman charged with misbehaviour
	MANGALORE: Assistant Sub-Inspector of Police Ajit Kumar attached to the Barke Police Station allegedly misbehaved with a 20-year-old woman while on duty at the Karnataka State Road Transport Corporation’s central bus stand here on ...

•	Will Budget have allocation for track doubling project?
	State Government to contribute 50 p.c. of the estimated cost of Rs. 240 crore

•	Red Ribbon Express to arrive on July 25
	The train will be in city for two days

•	DFRL help sought for anganwadis
	MYSORE: Minister for Women and Child Welfare P.M. Narendraswamy has suggested that food technology developed by the Defence Food Research Laboratory (DFRL) in Mysore be used to supply nutritious food to children through anganwadis. Mr. ...

•	‘Debts drove farmer to commit suicide’
	MYSORE: A 31-year-old farmer, Mahesh, who committed suicide in Yemmekoppalu village in Hunsur, near here, on Thursday, took the extreme step because of mounting debts and not on account of his failure to procure fertilizers, according to a ...

•	ABVP takes out procession, stages dharna
	‘Relax norms concerning admissions to fifth semester diploma engineering course’

•	Crop loan waived
	Raichur: The Raichur branch of the Maharashtra Bank on Thursday disbursed benefits of crop loan waiver scheme announced by the Union Government to 355 small and marginal farmers in the district. Deshpande, Manager, Lead Bank-State Bank of ...

•	Five killed as tractor falls into canal
	Raichur: Five workers were killed on the spot and seven others injured when a tractor, by which they were travelling, fell into the Narayanapura Right Bank Canal at Galag in Deodurga taluk on Thursday night. The police gave the names of ...

•	Demonstration
	SHIMOGA: Members of Vasavi Yuvajana Sangha staged a demonstration here on Friday demanding that the international airport in Bangalore be named after S.V. Shetty, who was the first pilot from Asia. The members took out a motorcycle rally from ...

•	Aid sought for community hall
	SHIMOGA: Kurubara Sangha has sought funds from the MP’s Local Area Development Fund for a community hall in Shimoga. In a memorandum to Shimoga MP S. Bangarappa here on Friday, a delegation of the sangha requested him to grant ...

•	‘BJP will split parties to remain in power’
	Congress may become first victim: MP

•	Nagalamadike temple looted
	TUMKUR: A six-member dacoit gang raided the Subramanya Swamy Temple at Nagalamadike in Pavagada taluk of Tumkur district on Friday and took away valuables estimated at over Rs. 2.30 lakh and cash from the temple offertory. The dacoits, two of ...

•	Atul Rao to be shifted to Mangalore jail
	Udupi: The Chief Judicial Magistrate and Principal Civil Judge (Senior Division) A.M. Ramachandrayya on Friday ordered that the accused in Padmapriya Bhat case, Atul Rao, be shifted immediately to the district jail in Mangalorefrom the ...

•	Man jumps into well during interrogation, dies
	Udupi: A man jumped into the well and drowned when the police started interrogating him with regard to a case at Haikady village coming under the Shankarnarayana Police Station limits in Udupi district on Thursday. The Shankarnarayana ...

•	Farm loans worth Rs. 16.72 cr. waived in Udupi district
•	Udupi CMC gears up to tackle chikungunya
	Udupi: President of the Udupi City Municipal Council (CMC) Dinakar Shetty said on Friday that an action plan has been prepared to check the spread of malaria and chikungunya in the city. Addressing presspersons here, Mr. Shetty said ...

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