Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Nizamuddin West Association Vs Union of India & Others dated 16/04/2025. The matter related to desilting of 24 drains with special focus on two drains - Kushak drain and Sunheri Pul drain before the monsoon. The court was informed that …
The present study on the plant nematodes associated with Bt cotton crop growth in northern Karnataka, India covered several aspects like a nematode random survey in Bt cotton-growing areas of the state, nematode community analysis, pathogenicity and biology of a dominant nematode and reaction of Bt cotton cultivars and hybrids …
The Bhabha Atomic Research Centre’s (BARC) nuclear technique for agriculture, particularly in creating new genetic variability in crop plants has been a success. Radiation and chemical-induced mutation and subsequent use in recombination breeding at BARC has, till date, resulted in the release of 39 improved crop varieties in oilseeds and …
The State government will install solar panels along the irrigation canals to generate power for lifting water. The project will be implemented in Yadgir, Raichur and Bijapur districts in the first phase. Water Resources Minister Basavaraj Bommai said here on Wednesday that it had been planned to install 10,000 solar …
The area under forest cover in Karnataka has increased by four square kilometres, according to a latest report of the Forest Survey of India. It says the change has been noticed in the assessment year of 2009, compared to the survey carried out in 2008. The report was put in …
Karnataka will implement modified National Rural Livelihood Mission (NRLM) in 20 taluks in five districts. NRLM is a poverty-alleviating scheme formulated by the Union Government. The state government has renamed it as ‘Sanjeevini'. “Karnataka has tweaked the mission to include social, financial and economic inclusion while rolling out the scheme …
Process still in its ‘nascent stages’; price yet to be fixed Tata Steel may have claimed that the land acquisition process for its integrated steel plant at Agadi in the taluk had been completed. But the land acquisition officers and farmers beg to differ. While the officers say that the …
Karnataka Vikas Grameen Bank (KVG Bank), a Dharwad-based regional rural bank, has made rapid progress in converting villages to complete ‘solar villages'. “We are going to shortly declare the 100th village. To mark this event, we will be declaring Devagiri, near Dharwad as a complete solar village,” Mr C. Sambasiva …
The Karnataka Government has made budget provision of Rs 110 crore for watershed and soil enrichment (‘BhooChetana') project, for the year 2012-13, which is being implemented in collaboration with the International Crops Research Institute for Semi Arid Tropics (Icrisat). Mr Suhas P. Wani, Programme Director - Resilient dry land Systems, …
India's claim of having developed its own Bt cotton (genetically modified) variety has taken an embarrassing turn with an RTI inquiry by two scientists revealing how the University of Agriculture Sciences (UAS) at Dharwad went ahead — brushing aside all precautions — to produce an indigenous variety working on a …
The State Forest department has decided to grow over 20 lakh sandalwood trees on 2,000 acres of land at a cost of Rs 50 crore in nine districts of the State. Forest Minister C P Yogeeshwara told mediapersons on Monday that the project, implemented in Mysore on a pilot basis, …
The fear of floods in the Bennihalla stream has come back to haunt the residents of the taluk. On Thursday morning, farmer Mabusab Rajesab Nadaf (70) and his wife Hasanbi (66) left for their field on the outskirts of Navalgund town to check their groundnut and chilli crops. They remained …
Census 2011: Rapid urbanisation sees dip in numbers since the last headcount Of the 6.11 crore population in Karnataka, 61.43 per cent live in rural areas, but their number has drastically declined since the last Census, giving an indication of the increased preference of the people to shift to cities. …
3,631 acres notified despite no demand from industries Acquisition of land for industrial purposes continues unabated in Dharwad even as farmers are up in arms against surrendering their land in the neighbouring Gadag district. ON THE MARK ?Mummigatti village in Dharwad taluk where lands have been notified for acquisition. The …
UNESCO has prepared a draft plan in this regard Committee set up to identify land for science centre in Hassan city Hassan: Deputy Commissioner K.G. Jagadish on Thursday said the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) had prepared a draft plan to develop Hassan district as a tourism …
Not revealing info can lead to temporary suspension of services Bangalore: Privacy concerns abound about each citizen of this country being issued an identity number, but the State government is firmly going ahead with its plans to include every citizen in the Unique Identification plan. Recently, the State government issued …
Bangalore, While the Health Ministry may maintain that the incidence of cholera has seen a decline, experts feel otherwise. Hence, a new live oral cholera vaccine (IOCV) using recombinant technology will begin phase II clinical trial, this month. Funded and developed by the Department of Biotechnology, Ministry of Science and …
The state government on Tuesday submitted its objections in the matter related to the ban on the insecticide Endosulfan. The state government said it banned the insecticide based on the report of the committee which it had formed. This committee which submitted its report in 2004 was of the opinion …
During debates on the merits of bringing in private water experts to distribute drinking water to homes in urban India 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, one story is often repeated. It is the story of a woman, a daily wage earner from Hubli-Dharwad, tier-II twin towns in …
