The government on Friday approved a soft loan of Rs 200 crore for paying salaries to employees of loss-making PSU Indian Telephone Industries (ITI) Ltd. The move is expected to mitigate the hardship being faced by the company in paying its employees. ITI Ltd had 7,633 employees as on December 1, 2013.The decision was taken by the Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs (CCEA).
The main aim of Shanti prakashana is to educate Muslims (who do not know Arabic and Urdu) on Islamic studies, Quran, Hadees or the way of life of Prophet Mohammad and his character, by translating them into Kannada. Shanti Prakashana does not only translate books, but makes them easy to understand and enable people to adopt the principles of Islam in their lives.
The objective of Shanti Prakashana is to remove the misconceptions and misunderstandings about Islam and Muslims lodged in the minds of non-muslim brothers who have been living together since time immemorial.
Recently, city court sentenced a man who threw acid at his wife to life imprisonment, the second harshest punishment the law of the land prescribes for atrocious crimes.
The judgment seems to indicate a strict stand against acid attacks in the state. Statistics only confirm this: From being a state with one of the highest incidence of acid attacks in the country, Karnataka has at present become one of the states with the lowest number of such cases.
Friday will be etched in Bangloreans mind as the much awaited Metro train service between Sampige Road and Peenya Industry Station will be officially launched.
The foundation stone for the second phase of Namma Metro will also be laid on the occasion.
While Railway Minister Mallikarjun Kharge will flag off the train from Rajajinagar Station at 6 in the evening, Chief Minister Siddaramaiah will lay the foundation stone for the second phase at a vibrant event to be held at Sri Kanteerava Stadium at 7 pm.
Bharatiya Janata Party’s prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi will address ‘Bharatha Gellisi’ rally in Karnataka’s Gulbarga district today.
The Gujarat Chief Minister is also scheduled to hold a rally in Hubli district later in the day.
Earlier, addressing a rally in Mangalore, Modi had criticized the Congress for ruining the country and said that they were intolerant to criticism.
On Thursday, the Bombay High Court questioned if a woman can be hold accountable of outraging the modesty of another woman and sought the legal provisions for it.
On Thursday, a division bench of Justice Naresh Patil and Justice V L Achliya was hearing a petition by a family of six from Borivli, including a 78-year-old matriarch Sarlaben Shah, seeking to nullify an FIR registered against them by their neighbour Preeta Jain (55).
The temporary shops built by the BDA next to the market can be big enough for only 110 of the 247 traders. The market will give way for a shopping complex being built under public private partnership by the BBMP and the BDA.
P N Nayak, BDA engineer member, claimed that the BBMP had asked them to build only 110 shops. “These are temporary shops. Traders will be shifted to the market once the construction is over.”
The fiscal deficit which was 2.90 per cent of GSDP in 2013-14 was expected to touch 2.92 per cent during 2014-15, which is below three per cent limit set by the Centre, he said while replying to discussion on the budget in the state assembly.
He termed the Budget as “revolutionary” that fulfils promises held out in Congress election manifesto.
Mariyam Kauser, the three-year-old victim of medical negligence was shifted to the intensive care unit again at the Malathi Manipal hospital from the special ward, three days back.
Dr. Sudarshan Ballal, director, Manipal Hospital, said that “the child has temperature which might be due to viral fever. However, she is being examined for any other infections. Her condition is stable.” It may be recalled that Mariyam was out of coma and had shown signs of movement last week.Courtesy:Karnataka Muslims
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Mr. Qamarul Islam, minister for Minority Welfare and Waqf informed the Legislative Council that the department would commence survey of all waqf properties and complete by end of October, here on February 25.
The Ideal Group of Institutions celebrated its 13th Annual Day at Ideal Campus, Basavakalyan on February 16. It was a spectacular feast for the eyes with attractive campus decoration and enthusiastic teachers and students in its midst.
NRI billionaire L N Mittal-led ArcelorMittal has 2,659- acre private land already in possession. It had acquired 1,827 acres and 832 acres in December 2011 and December 2012.
“This leaves a balance of 136.33 acres land owned by the Karnataka government which is being processed for allocation is expected to be completed during the first quarter of 2014,” ArcelorMittal said in its latest annual report for 2013.
In the 2012 annual report, the company had said that balance (136.33 acres) was being processed for allocation by the state without giving any timeframe.
The seven-member committee of experts, with experience of more than 50 years in education, has suggested that the university be split into: Bangalore University South, Bangalore University North Bangalore University East and Bangalore University West. And the fifth, UVCE (University Visvesvaraya College of Engineering), should be considered a special institution.
Our cities are a mess. Rapid urbanisation is one of the signs of economic development, but filthy overcrowded, unsafe and unhygienic cities are not necessarily a corollary to development. In this era of inverted snobbery, pleading for aesthetics is asking for Marie Antoinette’s fate. However, perhaps I can plead my case on a more important ground. Is public health a criterion worth considering?
Bidar, the capital city of Bahmani Sultanate in North Karnataka was ruined. The six hundred year old beautiful monuments of Bahmani and Barid Shahi were rebuilt by Dr. Ghulam Yazdani.
The Tamil Nadu police arrested K. Sahul Hameed alias Paravai Basha, accused in the Mallaeswaram bomb blast case, on February 22. The Bangalore police hope to interrogate Basha and elicit more information on the blast which occurred a year ago.
Basha is said to have arranged the logistics and supplied explosives to those who executed the crime. The Bangalore police would get his custody in a few days.
On Monday, the Bruhat Bangalore Mahanagara Palike (BBMP), in association with Switzerland-based Satarem India laid the foundation for the Integrated Waste Management Facility (IWMF) in the City.
The project taken up under public-private partnership implies Satarem installing the City’s first IWMF on Nelamangala-Hassan Road. The total cost of the plant is close to Rs 300 crore. Venkatesh Sivaraman, Executive Director, Satarem India, said that it would take as a minimum of two years to accomplish the work.
The ‘Bidai’ scheme launched by the State government for providing financial assistance to poor minorities to meet their wedding expenses, is yet to gain publicity as only a few beneficiaries have got themselves registered for the scheme in Bijapur.
The officials in the Department of Minority Welfare admit that owing to inadequate publicity, people of minority community are not coming forward to make use of the benefit.
A one-day workshop on Rashtriya Swasthya Bima Yojana (RSBY)– a Ministry of Labour and Employment’s one-year-old health initiative for the BPL families, in a bid to educate Panchayat Development Officers, Grama Panchayat Secretaries and Asha Workers, was conducted here by the District Administration’s Labour Department in association with The New India Assurance Company, Mysore, on February 22.
The workshop was an attempt to enlighten the workers on the enrolment process of the schemes to be started from the next week in the district.
Bangalore, Feb 24 (IANS) India’s leading corporate healthcare entity Narayana Hospital has extended its footprint beyond the shores by setting up a tertiary care multi-specialty hospital at Grand Cayman in the Caribbean.
Cayman Premier Alden McLaughlin will unveil the first phase of Health City Cayman Islands (HCCI) Tuesday in the presence of Narayana founder chairman Devi Shetty and US-based Ascension Health Alliance chief executive Anthony R. Tersigni.
LPG distribution will be affected from February 25 as distributors across the country have make up their mind to launch an indefinite strike urging the Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas and the oil marketing companies to concede to their demands.
However, consumers would be able to make their bookings through IVRS; but there will be no delivery service. This consists of supply of both commercial and domestic cylinders including that of hotels and hospitals. Pulling out of service for one day is likely to cause a backlog for seven days.
Theatre, Gender studies and law will be some of the new electives offered to students by the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) in the 2014-15 sessions.
The electives also include NCC, Human Rights, Knowledge Traditions and Practices of India and these subjects will be offered to students of classes 11 and 12. The board said the subjects will deal with their historical and current contexts.
Teachers have appreciated the move as they believe it will broaden the scope of learning for their students.
Mariam Kauser, the three-year-old, who was in a state of coma for the last three months, due to medical negligence, finally opened her eyes to the joy and relief of her relatives.
She was shifted from the ICU to a special ward at the Malathi Manipal Hospital on February 18, after slight movements in her body were noticed by her parents’ relatives. However, she is still on tracheotomy.
Alleged harassment by husband led a 30-year-old woman to commit suicide here on February 19.
The deceased, Thahira, wife of Muhammed Haneef and a resident of Shivalli in Udupi district allegedly hanged herself to death at her husband’s house.
Her mother and brother filed a complaint at Manipal police station stating that she was being physically abused by her husband. They also alleged that Thahira was not allowed to visit her parents for many years.
Kannada star and Karnataka Housing Minister M.H. Ambarish is recovering from a breathing problem caused due to lung infection, a senior doctor at a private hospital here said Sunday.
“Ambarish’s health condition is stable and improving, though he is still on ventilator to help him breathe easily and avoid strain,” Vikram Hospital’s chief pulmonologist K.S. Satish told reporters here.
The 61-year-old was admitted to the hospital late Friday after he felt feverish and uneasy and complained of difficulty in breathing.