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Oct 21, 2024 | 
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In north Karnataka, leopards have new home: Sugarcane, maize fieldsRapidly expanding sugarcane and maize cultivation areas in north Karnataka seems to be serving as a conduit and shelter for the leopard, an ambush hunter, resulting in more close encounters with humans in these parts.
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Oct 19, 2024 | 
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The scam, which occurred in 2021–22, saw the involvement of bureaucrats and middlemen who allegedly swindled large shares of loans under a job scheme for Bhovi community members.
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Oct 10, 2024 | 
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The people of the Muslim community converged at the venue and expressed anger against the miscreants urging the police officials to initiate action against them.
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Sep 27, 2024 | 
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Kalaburagi: A farmer ended his life by pouring petrol on himself due to the fear over a bank notice served to him demanding repayment of loan in Potangal village of Chincholi taluk on Thursday night. The deceased farmer is Pandappa Tippanna Koravan (45). The farmer had taken Rs 1 lakh loan from Nidagunda branch of Karnataka Grameena Bank and other money lenders. He had grown tur crop in his three acres of agricultural land.
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Sep 22, 2024 | 
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Kalaburagi: The above-normal rainfall has hit tur crop in Kalaburagi district, known as Karnataka’s tur bowl. The crop is cultivated on 70% of the agriculture fields in the district. Farmers say the yield per hectare will reduce drastically this year. Stagnation of rainwater in the tur fields has increased moisture content in the crop. In 2023-24, Karnataka produced 10.19 lakh tonnes of tur. The country’s total production was 33.4 lakh tonnes.
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Sep 16, 2024 | 
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Kalyana Karnataka continues to lag behind in human development index with high rate of poverty and income inequalities, despite five Cabinet meetings being held here since the one under R Gundu Rao as chief minister in 1981. The last such Cabinet meeting was held in 2014. Leaders from the region have continued to seek redress for regional imbalance as implementation of the decisions taken at these meetings is far from satisfactory.
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Aug 30, 2024 | 
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Kalaburagi: Erecting Hindu religious symbols of mace, arrow and Lord Tirupati Balaji Tilak on lamp posts has sparked a row in Gangavati of Karnataka's Koppal district. The street lights were installed by the Karnataka Rural Infrastructure Development Limited (KRIDL) two weeks ago by utilising the funds from the Kalyana Karnataka Region Development Corporation (KKRDB).
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Aug 28, 2024 | 
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Mamadapur village in Vijayapura district saw an unexpected transformation — in just two years, vast stretches of barren land in the village have been replaced by lush greenery. Forest officials and residents of the village worked together in taking around 300 hectares of land containing thorny weeds, and developing it into a scenic and diversely forested area. The village is located in Babaleshwar taluk, which comes under the Vijayapura forest range.
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Aug 21, 2024 | 
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Bidar: The police officials have arrested four persons in connection with an attack on a delivery boy working at Amazon company at Old Adarsh Colony here on Wednesday. A case is registered against 12 persons and search operation has been launched for the others who have been absconding. The delivery boy Vijaykumar has received injuries on his face and other parts of the body. Another staff member, Rohan, who has been working at the company, has a minor injury.
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Aug 3, 2024 | 
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Kalaburagi: The wife of police sub-inspector Parashuram, who died due to a cardiac arrest on Friday, has filed a complaint against Yadgir Congress MLA Chennareddy Patil Tunnur and his son Pampangouda Sunny Gowda, accusing them of being responsible for his death. She alleged that the two caused her husband mental harassment by demanding Rs 30 lakh bribe to stop his transfer from Yadgir and that they made casteist abuses against the Scheduled Caste officer.
