Karnataka

NEW DELHI: Eight months after promising to constitute a panel to look into demands of farmer organisations, the Centre has finally constituted a committee, headed by former agriculture secretary Sanjay Agrawal, to suggest measures to…

The government on Monday formed a committee on Minimum Support Price (MSP), eight months after it promised to set up such a panel while withdrawing the three contentious farm laws. Former agriculture secretary Sanjay Agrawal will be the…

Karnataka Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai on Monday said he will seek the intervention of the GST Council to issue a clarification to dealers not to pass on the new GST levy on 'pre-packaged and labelled" goods to consumers. These levies…

CHENNAI: The Cauvery Water Management Authority has convened a meeting on July 22 after putting off the meeting twice. It will discuss, among other things, the Mekedatudam plan of Karnataka. The 16th meeting of the authority will be…

India's second confirmed case of monkeypox was reported in Kerala on Monday. According to PTI sources, a 31-year-old man from Kannur in Kerala has tested positive for monkeypox, making it the second confirmed case of the disease in…

NEW DELHI: Covid-19 cases continued to inch up in the country for the eighth week running, with the weekly total just short of 1.3 lakh, up over 6% from the previous week. Although the numbers remain relatively low, this is the longest…

The income of farmers has grown in the range of 1.3-1.7 times in FY22 from the FY18 levels on average while grain exports soared to over USD 50 billion, says an SBI Research report. For certain crops in some states (like soyabean in…

NEW DELHI: A record 18. 72 lakh candidates, including 10. 64 lakh women, will appear at the National Eligibility-cum-Entrance Test (NEET-UG 2022) to be conducted on Sunday. The entrance test for admission to MBBS, BDS and allied…

States have budgeted 36 per cent higher capital expenditure during this financial year, which may lead to a sharp rise in their fiscal deficit to Rs 8.4 lakh crore, a report said on Friday. Registering an increase of 34.1 per cent from…

India logged a single-day rise of 20,038 new coronavirus infections, pushing the tally of cases to 4,37,10,027, while the count of active cases of the disease has increased to 1,39,073, according to Union Health Ministry data updated on…