Launch of ‘Auto Drivers’ Sevalo’ scheme in Andhra Pradesh on October 4
A sum of ₹15,000 will be credited to the bank accounts of 2,90,669 beneficiaries annually under the scheme; to avail of it, the drivers should hold valid driving licence and…
CPI(M) accuses a ‘weakened’ UDF of scrambling for Muslim fundamentalist votes in crucial election year
State secretary M.V. Govindan accuses UDF of Jamaat-e-Islami Hind as a crutch to prop up its election fortunes. Jamaat’s youth movement, Solidarity Youth Movement, employs ‘extreme Islamist iconography’ and re-launched…
Namma Clinics fails to meet its objective of supplying free medicines to senior citizens in Bengaluru: Survey
Beneficiaries say they get medicines only for about 15 days in a month, and clinics run out of supply after that; the survey argues that nurses dispensing medicines at the…
Picture of contrast: Deficient in south, surplus in north, Southwest Monsoon averages out as ‘normal’ in Karnataka
Reflective of the uneven spatial distribution of rains, several districts of north Karnataka, which were on the deficient side till the first week of September, ended the season with excess…