Bengaluru: Days after K Marigowda surrendered before the Nazarbad police for threatening Mysuru Deputy Commissioner (DC) C Shikha, the latest list of transfers is making news as it includes Shikha’s name too. Shikha has been moved as the Commissioner of the Social Welfare Department. Sources also said that Marigowda, who is now lodged in the […]
Bangalore: It is an uneasy wait for 32,916 Dalit and other backward classes students in 260 hostels in the State run by the Social Welfare Department as they have to share 1,502 toilets among themselves. These boys and girls, who enjoy a Constitutional guarantee to free education, hostel and food, are also undergoing untold hardship […]
Bangalore: The High Court of Karnataka on Friday dismissed a petition filed by former chief minister B S Yeddyurappa seeking to quash two private complaints filed against him in the Special Lokayukta court by Sirajin Basha, on denotification of certain parcels of land. Yeddyurappa challenged an order of the single judge of the High Court, who had […]
Bangalore: State Minister for Social Welfare wants the 50 acres of land allotted to the Sumanahalli Leprosy Rehabilitation Centre near the Beggars’ Colony on Magadi Road, back in the folds of the government. The land was meant to establish a rehabilitation centre for leprosy patients by the former chief minister late D Devaraj Urs way […]
