Karnataka has decided to embark upon agritourism to introduce various aspects of agriculture and rural life to urbanites, to increase the incomes of farmers, and to boost the tourism economy. A meeting on developing the concept of agritourism was held […]
Mysuru: Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA) scheme, a flagship project of the Union government, has come in handy for the local bodies in the state to provide employment for labourers who have been rendered jobless due to […]
Mysuru: Dalit writer and activist Devanur Mahadeva joined hundreds of activists and rationalists from across the country on Thursday, demanding the immediate release of activist and writer Anand Teltumbde. He extended his support to the Justice Day planned on Saturday, […]
The Supreme Court on Monday has refused to entertain a petition filed by a Dalit district judge from Karnataka against alleged caste-based discrimination, saying “it was filed at eleventh hour”. The Dalit judge, RKGMM Mahaswamiji has approached the Supreme Court […]
NEW DELHI: Just 30 minutes before swearing in of a new additional Judge in Karnataka High Court, the Supreme Court on Monday took up for hearing a petition filed by a dalit district and sessions judge who questioned the HC […]
The Supreme Court on Monday refused to stay the elevation of a district judge who was later sworn in as an additional judge in Karnataka High Court, overruling the challenge a Dalit district judge had filed objecting to the appointment. […]
BENGALURU: A six-year-old inmate of the Covid-19 ward at the Trauma Care Centre on Victoria Hospital campus was being restless and on the verge of breaking social-distancing norms. The boy calmed down only after he was provided with toys, thanks […]
My great grandfather, a rigidly casteist South Indian Brahmin who lived in Mysore, was finicky about ritual pollution. He had sold his wife’s dowry, which consisted of silver vessels, to fund a modern venture, a gramophone shop. The shop didn’t […]
Bengaluru: A Muslim NGO organized the funeral and performed the last rites of Karthik Maity (63) in Bengaluru on Friday (April 17) when request by his kin to his co-religionists to help him in the crisis fell on the deaf […]
BENGALURU: A man and his friends were allegedly abused and assaulted by a businessman for distributing free milk to poor people in KR Puram on Sunday. Police said that Anil Kumar (38) and his friends had gone to help poor […]
