The pilot initiative will provide Rs 30,000 insurance cover for 250 people living with HIV in Karnataka's six districts of Bellary, Mangalore, Mandya, Kolar, Mysore and Udupi. The insurance cover entails the beneficiary Rs 15,000 assistance for hospitalisation and a similar sum to his family in the event of his death, Sanjay Rao Chaganti, programme director of Population Services International, an NGO behind the project, said.
As the second phase of polling commenced on Thursday amid heightened security, bigwigs came out to cast their votes for constituting the 17th Lok Sabha. Among those who took to their respective polling booths were former Finance Minister P Chidambaram, actor-turned-politician Rajinikanth, BJP candidate from Bengaluru South Tejasvi Surya, and defence minister Nirmala Sitharaman, among others.
Polling in the first phase will take place in Bengaluru Urban and Rural districts, Tumkur, Mysore, Chikkaballapur, Ramnagar, Mandya, Hassan, Kodagu, Chamarajnagar and Kolar. Polling in the 20,000 booths for the first phase will commence at 7 am and would end by 5 pm.
Director Mandya Nagaraj fails to deliver the goods, once again.
Inducted into the government only a few months ago, he said he would announce his future plans on joining the ongoing Cauvery agitation in a day or two.
Rural retail seems to be keeping a lot of women in villages across the country on their toes.
'It must have stung Devendra Fadnavis to see Modi asking MPs at the BJP parliamentary party meeting to give Yediyurappa a standing ovation for his victory in the by-elections that has resulted in pulling the BJP government in Karnataka off the ventilator,' notes Aditi Phadnis.
The start of play was delayed by at least four hours owing to wet pitch conditions following heavy overnight rains.
The state BJP, meanwhile, has urged the government to drop its decision to celebrate Tipu Jayanti and not to stand on 'prestige' or 'ego'.
The opener scored 151 runs as Karnataka piled up 411 runs against Bengal.
The duo put on 164 runs for the seventh wicket as Bengal held on for a draw in the Ranji Trophy match.
Karnataka were well-placed with a 183-run first innings lead on the penultimate day of the Ranji Trophy match.
Gowda also said he did not know how long the Congress-JD-S government, headed by his son H D Kumaraswamy, would continue and it was in the hands of the senior coalition partner.
Providing succour to distressed farmers, the Karnataka government on Saturday announced waiver of interest and penal interest on crop loans from cooperative banks for the current fiscal and hike in compensation from Rs 2 lakh to Rs 5 lakh to families of farmers who had committed suicide.
Resto-bar owner V R Dayashankar who went absconding after the incident was later arrested.
Black flags were also shown to the former MP as she came out of the airport.
Buoyed by the recent victories in bypolls, Rahul was keen to revamp the state unit.
Siddaramaiah added that all efforts would be made to provide drinking water to Bengaluru and other places as also for crops.
Underworld don Chhota Rajan was on Saturday sent to Central Bureau of Investigation custody by a court, a day after he was brought from Indonesian city of Bali.
Despite day-long discussions, Karnataka and Tamil Nadu failed to reach an agreement on the quantum of water to be released.
The current crisis Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah is facing is a cumulative effect of inattention to water management and the fiscal burden of populist promises, says Aditi Phadnis.
Family members praised the government, saying it was a revenge taken by the armed forces for the martyrdom of soldiers in the Pulwama terror attack.
The Supreme Court and its committees, the two states and the central government must become objective and take the present and not just the past in mind.
Kumaraswamy had proved right the adage that politics is the art of the possible, but the science graduate failed to get his chemistry right in keeping the coalition legislators together to ensure his government's longevity.
Rediff Labs analyzed the data on district wise child marriages in India by Census of India 2011.
'Rajan epitomised the best of his generation -- veneration for knowledge, for old fashioned morality of honesty and modesty.' Economist Devaki Jain, Padma Bhushan, salutes her brother who passed into the ages last week.
Congress President Rahul Gandhi met disgruntled Karnataka MLAs led by M B Patil in the national capital but the talks remained inconclusive.
Curfew, imposed late on Monday night, continued to remain in force in 16 police station limits of the city which were under prohibitory orders.
Counting's underway and the fate of the candidates is awaited. As we wait for the results with bated breath, here's how your heavyweights are faring for now.
With Rahul showing a significant lead over Prime Minister Narendra Damodardas Modi in opinion polls across southern India but lagging in the north, the Congress believes his contesting from the south will help galvanise cadres.
Ramesh Gowda accused Reddy and a KAS officer of mentally torturing him.
Elaborate security arrangements have been made in districts like Kodagu and Chitradurga, coastal regions among others, where local communities are opposed to the celebrations.
Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah seems to be working so hard that his apparent lack of sleep appears to be catching up with him at the worst possible moments: right in front of the cameras.
Choose from the three releases this week.
Metro cities are ranked lower in cleanliness index and tourist towns also lag
The Cauvery Supervisory Committee had on September 19 asked Karnataka to release 3,000 cusecs per day but the Apex Court had on September 20 doubled the quantum.
'The first two months of monsoon are not looking good.' 'In case both the halves fail, it is going to be misery.'
She said that Defence Minister Manohar Parikar was wrong in comparing Pakistan with 'hell'. She said, "It is nothing like that. People there are just like us and there is no difference. They treated us very well."
If the Cauvery water-sharing dispute between Karnataka and Tamil Nadu -- dating back to 1892 between the erstwhile Madras Presidency under the British Raj and the princely Mysore state -- has exploded again into a war, the discord between Karnataka and Goa over dividing the water of the Mahadayi river simmers under the surface.
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