The Mekedatu project is proposed to be built at a deep gorge situated at the confluence of the Cauvery and its tributary Arkavathi in Karnataka’s Ramanagara district.
The new guidelines announced by Chief Minister B S Yediyurappa Saturday came into effect from 6 am on 5 July and will be in force up to 6 am on 19 July.
BJP state in-charge Arun Singh has ruled out any change in leadership after review meetings with ministers and over 50 MLAs. But dissidents keep up pressure on high command.
The Karnataka district had emerged as a Covid hotspot by April as daily case tally rose to over 1,500. In the last week of May, the district reported between 1,500 and 2,000 cases daily.
Mysuru corporation chief Shilpa Nag accused DC Rohini Sindhuri of targeting her, who hit back by questioning corporation’s Covid handling. Karnataka govt transferred both.
Govt move comes two days after Mysuru City Corporation commissioner Shilpa Nag resigned, alleging ‘harassment’ at the hands of district deputy commissioner Rohini Sindhuri.
Karnataka's Mandya district has recorded 36,341 cases in just the last two months, a 181% increase from the first wave, with 16,541 people belonging to the 21-40 age group.
A panel will probe oxygen supply chains, role of medication, and referral cases from smaller hospitals to ascertain the source causing mucormycosis in recovering Covid patients.
Health Minister K. Sudhakar says focus is on 'targeted testing'. In villages, doctors say, this has meant people approaching hospitals when their SPO2 levels have already reach 'alarming level'.
Developed countries should take responsibility for their climate emissions. Instead, the instinct has been familiar: Protect your own first. This is now shaping the climate finance debate.
Rural ownership of motor vehicles jumped from 19 percent in 2011-2012 to 59 percent in 2023-2024, while urban rose from 40 percent to 68 percent during the same time period, study by two members of PM-EAC says.
At the Jindal Literature Festival, Maj Gen (Retd) Lakhwinder Singh reveals secrets from 25 years ago, speaking about the decision that outwitted Musharraf and changed the course of the war.
It is a brilliant, reasonably priced, and mostly homemade aircraft with a stellar safety record; only two crashes in 24 years since its first flight. But its crash is a moment of introspection.
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