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Topic: Kolar

Biggest tomato market from June-August, Kolar feels the heat — poor rain, plant disease hit trade

Prices of high-end tomatoes at Kolar APMC nearing Rs 3,000 for 15 kg. Farmers say they used to get 1 box of tomatoes for every 4 plants earlier, need 4 times as many plants now.

Rahul Gandhi can drive Mandal 3, reverse social justice politics that BJP pushed to dead-end

Rahul Gandhi's Kolar speech wasn't a momentary reflex. Congress is looking to recover lost ground and be the favourite party of poor, Dalits, Adivasis, and Muslims again.

In 15 days, BJP & RSS workers turn Kolar hospital defunct for 20 yrs into 300-bed Covid facility

The Bharat Gold Mines Limited hospital, a 140-year-old institution at the Kolar Gold Fields near Bengaluru, will start operating from Monday.

Once India’s gold mine, this dejected Karnataka town is only remembered in election season

Thousands rendered jobless due to closure of mines in 2001, voters say political parties promise to re-open mines before every election, but never deliver.

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New labour codes make India’s workforce competitive with China—and build Viksit Bharat

By consolidating 29 laws into four codes, compliance is streamlined and regulations are simplified, improving “ease of doing business”. This is bound to improve investor confidence.

Vehicles, TVs, mobile phones—PM EAC report shows rural India is catching up with urban consumers

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.

General secrets from frozen peaks: A Kargil veteran reveals what politically correct writers left out

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. 

A tribute to Tejas. India’s delay culture is the real enemy in the skies

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.