Bengaluru ” Revenue Minister Mr R Ashoka handed over a cheque of Rs 1 lakh to a family which had lost its kin to Covid. Speaking on the occasion on Thursday, Mr Ashoka said, “The State Government had earlier announced a financial relief of Rs 1 lakh to those BPL families which had lost one […]

Bengaluru : Revenue Minister R Ashoka urged people to extend all the possible help to those in need at this time of crisis. Speaking at a programme in Padmanabhanagar constituency on Saturday,  Minister Ashoka said, “This is the reason why I had decided to stay away from birthday celebrations. Instead, I urged people to provide food […]

Bengaluru : JD(S) leader H D Kumaraswamy on Monday extended his support to a section of writers who suggested that creating jobs is more important than implementing Bhagya schemes and urged the State government not to take it lightly. Speaking to reporters, he said a section of writers has recently said the government should provide […]

Mangaluru: The labour department has sent a proposal to the government to sanction Rs. 1,100 crore funds in the upcoming budget said, State labour minister P T Parameshwar . Speaking to the presspersons at district congress office he said, the government has sanctioned Rs. 5 crore to establish labour office in the DK district also […]

Bangalore: Talking to press men in Bangalore after his visit to Mangalore, CM Siddaramaiah  told that his government was agreeable in principle to visualize the extension of Shaadhi Bhagya scheme to all BPL card holders in the state. Former CM Yeddyurappa (KJP) was conducting the Dharna to this effect in his 13th day of protest. […]

Bangalore : Saddled with the responsibility of leading his party in the upcoming Assembly elections, Chief Minister Jagadish Shettar has tried to endear himself to all sections by presenting a please-all budget, with no fresh tax proposals, for the year 2013-14. He has come out with goodies for all and sundry, including rice at Rs […]

Mangalore : Shree Krishna Dharmopayana Samithiorganized a 43rd annual mass upananayana ceremony for Brahmin kids at ShreeKrishna Kalyana Mandir, Kadri on June 24, Sunday. The mass upananayana ceremony was conducted free of cost forthe young boys from BPL families. The ceremony concluded with the religious discourse on Gayathri Mantra. VHP leader Prof. M. B. Puranik, […]

Bangalore: The auto-rickshaw hire prices are rising every season and going out of hand for relatively poor and daily working people. It certainly does not remain within reach of  BPL families earning Rs26 to 35per day as under Planning Commission rules. The auto-rickshaw divers association has raised its demand for a minimum fare(1.5km) to Rs24, […]

Mangalore: Hailing CM Yeddyurappa’s separate farming budget as a goodwill gesture towards land farmers in state, Vasudeva Boloor of Fishermen’s Action Committee (FAC) on Wednesday, talking to newsmen here, asked the state rulers to extend similar facilities to farmers of the sea, or fishermen who were poor. He wanted the crop loans “free of interest’ […]

Mangalore: Accredited social health caretakers should spread awareness about certain special schemes conceived by the state government for the BPL card holders to benefit them in distress, said additional DC Prabhakar Sharma today at a training camp that he inaugurated for such (Asha) activists at a district level convention held in the local Town Hall […]