BS Yediyurappa, son fall in line as BJP leadership gets poll boost
Former Karnataka chief minister B S Yediyurappa and his younger son B Y Vijayendra have decided to play supporting roles in the plans of the BJP leadership to bring the party to power in Karnataka in next year’s Assembly polls on account of the BJP leadership emerging significantly stronger after big wins in four states, including Uttar Pradesh.
On Sunday, Vijayendra, who was in Delhi on the eve of the poll results, told reporters in Hubbali that he is not interested in becoming a minister in the current BJP government in Karnataka.This is in contradiction to reports that Vijayendra, a vice-president of the state BJP, was in Delhi last week to lobby with the top party leadership for a position in Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai’s Cabinet.
Frowning upon the Karnataka High Court's decision to uphold the ban on hijab in educational institutions in the state, Congress legislator from Jharkhand Irfan Ansari once again courted controversy on Tuesday by alleging BJP is running courts which is not a good tradition.
Ansari, who is a former working president of the party's state unit, had courted controversy earlier by praising Taliban for “having done a good job by forcing the USA to leave Afghanistan”, prompting a backlash from the saffron party.
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"I won't say anything on the court verdict ...BJP is running courts...This is not a good tradition," Ansari told mediapersons here. (PTI)
President Jamiat Ulama-i-Hind, Maulana Mahmood Asa’d Madani, Tuesday called the Karnataka High Court’s hijab verdict “deeply disappointing.”
“This verdict will have a direct impact on religious freedom. No society is governed only by its legal nuances about issues where traditional and social values matter a lot. This verdict would have many negative implications, especially on the education of Muslim girl’s students as they would lose their right to choice and their confidence in the present communal atmosphere,’’ said Madani in his statement.
Niaz Ahmed Farooqui, secretary of Jamiat Ulama-i-Hind, said the verdict could be “misused in other contexts”. Esha Roy reports
The six Muslim students from the Udupi government college that banned hijabs said that their legal fight will continue. The Karnataka High Court verdict on Tuesday said that wearing a hijab is not an essential religious practice of Islam.
The RSS-linked Muslim Rashtriya Manch (MRM) on Tuesday welcomed the Karnataka High Court verdict that upheld the ban on hijab in educational institutions in the state, saying truth alone triumphs.
In a statement, the MRM said "anarchic elements and narrow-minded leaders" should now desist from "using children" to serve their self-interest.
Strict action should be taken against those who were "spreading poison" in the minds of the people and playing "a dirty politics" on the issue, it demanded. (PTI)
Karnataka Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai on Tuesday urged people to cooperate with the government in implementing the High Court verdict on the hijab ban, but the Muslim students who had challenged the ban vowed not to attend college until they get “justice”.
The six Muslim students of the Government Pre-University Girls College in Udupi, who had moved the Karnataka High Court seeking permission to wear hijab inside the classroom, said they felt betrayed by the verdict.
They also said the ruling that hijab or headscarf is “not an essential part” of the religious practice in Islam was not correct. Read more
The ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) will carry out a “highly organised” election in Karnataka in 2023 and use lessons from its recent victories to retain power in Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Goa and Manipur that “principled politics can defeat caste politics” and “people have accepted Hindutva politics in a big way”, Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai has said.
The BJP is looking to adopt similar strategies based on Hindutva, nationalism and development to regain power in Karnataka in the 2023 assembly polls, Bommai indicated during an event organised on Sunday to felicitate three state leaders — Union ministers Shobha Karandlaje and Pralhad Joshi, and BJP general secretary C T Ravi — for running a successful campaign for the party in Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand and Goa respectively. Read full Political Pulse
The Belagavi police in north Karnataka have arrested three people, including a bank clerk, for allegedly robbing the Belagavi District Credit Cooperative Bank (BDCC) at Murgod last week and making away with cash and ornaments worth nearly Rs 6 crore.
The police on Sunday recovered Rs 4,20,98,400 in cash and three kilograms of gold and silver ornaments worth Rs 1,63,72,220 from a nearby sugarcane field where the robbers had buried them.
The accused have been identified as Basavraj Hunshikatti, who was a clerk in the bank, Santosh Kalappa Kambar and Yamanappa Laxman Belwal. Read more
Karnataka on Tuesday registered 129 fresh coronavirus cases and 2 fatalities thereby taking the total till date to 39,44,041 and 40,024 respectively.
There were 206 patients who got discharged and the number of recoveries were 39,01,636 so far, said a bulletin.
Of the new cases, 101 were from Bengaluru Urban, which also recorded 131 discharged and one death, the bulletin said. The number of active cases across the State was 2,341. (PTI)
Prominent Muslim body Jamiat Ulema-e-Hind on Tuesday expressed deep disappointment over the Karnataka High Court's decision of upholding the ban against hijab in educational institutions in the state, and said the verdict would have adverse impact on religious freedom and education of Muslim girls.
The High Court on Tuesday said hijab was not part of the essential religious practice in Islamic faith and effectively upheld the ban against the headscarf in educational institutions in the state by dismissing pleas from Muslim girls seeking nod to wear it in classrooms.
Reacting to the verdict, Maulana Mahmood Madani, president, Jamiat Ulema-e-Hind (Mahmood Madani faction) said it was "deeply disappointing" and the verdict would have a direct impact on religious freedom. (PTI)
Former Chief Minister B S Yediyurappa on Tuesday said the Karnataka High Court's verdict on the Hijab row proves that the Constitution is supreme over religion and its beliefs, while leaders of opposition parties seemed guarded in their stand in this regard.
The Karnataka High Court dismissed petitions filed by a section of Muslim students, seeking permission to wear Hijab inside the classroom.
The three-judge bench of the court consisting of Chief Justice Ritu Raj Awasthi, Justice Krishna S Dixit and Justice J M Khazi further noted that the prescription of school uniform is only a reasonable restriction, constitutionally permissible, which the students cannot object to. (PTI)
The Karnataka High Court's verdict which dismissed pleas seeking permission to wear hijab in classroom will bring down the percentage of Muslim women seeking education, Maharashtra AIMIM chief and Aurangabad Lok Sabha MP Imitiaz Jaleel said on Tuesday.
Speaking to reporters, he said people must have the right to wear the clothes of their choice and called the judgment unfortunate.
"The literacy rate among Muslim women is low. After such judgments, a percentage of women from the community may refuse to go to school and college. If girls can wear jeans, skirts and shorts, then why is the hijab being disallowed," he said. (PTI)
After the Karnataka High Court dismissed petitions challenging the state government's restriction on wearing of hijab in schools and colleges, the Congress on Tuesday said the onus of ensuring education of the girl child and maintaining peace and harmony lies on the BJP government led by Chief Minister Basavaraj S Bommai.
Congress general secretary and chief spokesperson Randeep Surjewala said the Karnataka government should ensure that none is allowed to vitiate the atmosphere in schools and colleges and peace is not sacrificed for BJP's agenda of polarisation on communal lines.
He said the matter is pending before the Supreme Court and all should await its verdict. (PTI)
A plea was Tuesday filed in the Supreme Court challenging the Karnataka High Court verdict which dismissed pleas seeking permission to wear Hijab inside the classroom, saying Hijab is not a part of the essential religious practice in Islamic faith.
The petition has been filed in the apex court by a Muslim student against the high court judgement. Earlier in the day, the high court dismissed the petitions filed by a section of Muslim students from the Government Pre-University Girls College in Udupi, seeking permission to wear Hijab inside the classroom.
The prescription of school uniform is only a reasonable restriction, constitutionally permissible which the students cannot object to, the high court said. (PTI)
Welcoming the Karnataka High Court's verdict upholding the hijab ban, Defence Minister Rajnath Singh Tuesday said that all students, irrespective of their religious beliefs, should adhere to the dress code prescribed by educational institutions.
The manner in which the hijab row at the government pre university (PU) colleges unfolded since December 2021 gives scope to the theory that “unseen hands” precipitated the situation, the Karnataka High Court said Tuesday in its order, while rejecting claims that the hijab is an essential religious practice in Islam.
The High Court has in its order also directed speedy and effective investigation into the provocations for the protests on the basis of a confidential report that was given to the court by the state police through the state advocate general Prabhuling Navadagi.
“We are dismayed as to how all of a sudden that too in the middle of the academic term the issue of hijab is generated and blown out of proportion by the powers that be. The way, hijab imbroglio unfolded gives scope for the argument that some ‘unseen hands’ are at work to engineer social unrest and disharmony,” the High Court stated in its order. Read more
The Karnataka High Court, which dismissed the batch of petitions by some Muslim girl students from Udupi seeking permission to wear Hijab inside classrooms, said there was no material placed on record to prima facie show that wearing the headscarf was an essential religious practice.
The court also said that school uniform will cease to be a uniform if hijab is also allowed.
"There is absolutely no material placed on record to prima facie show that wearing of Hijab is a part of an essential religious practice in Islam and that the petitioners have been wearing hijab from the beginning," the three-judge bench headed by Chief Justice Ritu Raj Awasthi, the others being Justices Krishna S Dixit and J M Khazi, noted. (PTI)
The Udupi Muslim girls whose petitions seeking permission to wear Hijab inside the classrooms were dismissed by the Karnataka High Court said on Tuesday they will not go to college without hijab and fight the case legally till they get "justice".
They also claimed the verdict was "unconstitutional".
"We had approached the High Court seeking permission to wear hijab in the classrooms. The order has come against us. We will not go to the college without hijab but we will fight for it. We will try all the legal ways. We will fight for justice and our rights," one of the girls said in a press conference in this coastal town. (PTI)
Unlike the US and Australia where freedom of religion is defined in absolute terms, the freedom of religion under the Constitution of India is subject to restrictions, a full bench of the Karnataka High Court stated in an order on Tuesday while rejecting pleas to protect the right of Muslim girls to wear the hijab in the state’s junior colleges.
The court rejected a batch of petitions filed by students from government colleges in the Udupi region of Karnataka seeking to recognise the hijab as an essential religious practice and to remove restrictions in some state colleges on wearing the hijab in classrooms.
“We are of the considered opinion that wearing of the hijab by Muslim women does not make up an essential religious practice in Islamic faith,” the bench comprising Karnataka Chief Justice Ritu Raj Awasthi and Justices Krishna S Dixit and J M Khazi said Tuesday. Read more
The Karnataka High Court on Tuesday (March 15) upheld the restriction on Muslim women wearing a hijab in educational institutions. A three-judge bench comprising Chief Justice Ritu Raj Awasthi and Justices Krishna S Dixit and Khazi M Jaibunnisa, held that the right to wear a hijab is not constitutionally protected.
Condensing the submissions made during the 11-day hearing in February, the High Court said that it had formulated four broad questions, taking a holistic view of the matter. The court answered all four questions in negative. Read more
The Karnataka High Court has suggested the possibility of some 'unseen hands' behind the hijab row to engineer social unrest and disharmony. The court also expressed dismay over the issue being blown out of proportion.
"The way hijab imbroglio unfolded gives scope for the argument that some 'unseen hands' are at work to engineer social unrest and disharmony. Much is not necessary to specify," the three-judge bench headed by Chief Justice Ritu Raj Awasthi said in the order.
The full bench also comprising Justice Krishna S Dixit and Justice J M Khazi dismissed a batch of petitions filed by a few Muslim girl students from Udupi Government Pre-University Girls' College who sought permission that they be allowed to attend classes wearing hijab. The court however, made it clear that it was not commenting on the ongoing police investigation. (PTI)
After the Karnataka High Court Tuesday upheld the ban on wearing hijab in educational institutions in the state, Bangalore South BJP MP Tejasvi Surya said: “I welcome the judgment of the Karnataka High Court; it's a very important step towards strengthening the educational opportunities & rights of girl students, especially for those belonging to the Muslim community.” (ANI)
After the Karnataka High Court Tuesday upheld the hijab ban and dismissed various petitions challenging a ban on scarfs in educational institutions in the state, several senior political leaders from across the country have come forward expressing their opinions on the verdict.
The Karnataka High Court ruling that hijab was not a part of the essential religious practice in Islamic faith was welcomed by Kerala Governor Arif Mohammed Khan, who on Tuesday expressed hope that such continuous attempts to push back young Muslim women into the four walls of a house, fail.
The Kerala Governor, speaking to reporters, said he was not gloating over the verdict as he believed that the young Muslim women have the capability to contribute and play a great role in nation building as well as looking after their families, just like their "other sisters".
"I sincerely pray and hope that these continuous attempts to push back the young women, especially young Muslim women, into the four walls of the house, fall down," Khan said. (PTI)
Political parties in Jammu and Kashmir on Tuesday called the Karnataka High Court's decision to uphold the hijab ban as 'deeply disappointing', saying it was not only about religion but the freedom to choose. (PTI)
After the Karnataka High Court Tuesday upheld the ban on wearing the hijab in educational institutions, several politicians, including Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai, said the order must be followed, even as other leaders called it “deeply disappointing.”
A full bench of the Karnataka High Court dismissed a batch of petitions filed by Muslim girls from a pre-university (PU) college in the Udupi region of the state seeking the right to wear hijabs or headscarves along with uniforms inside classrooms. The court said the headscarf is not an essential religious practice of Islam.
The ban by the state government last month had sparked protests by some Muslim students and parents, and counter-protests by Hindu students. Read more
Several BJP leaders on Tuesday hailed the Karnataka High Court order upholding the ban on wearing hijab in schools and colleges, saying the entire debate on the issue should be seen from the context of women empowerment.
The Karnataka High Court on Tuesday dismissed petitions filed by a section of Muslim students from the Government Pre-University Girls College in Udupi seeking permission to wear Hijab inside classrooms, saying the headscarf is not a part of the essential religious practice in Islamic faith.
The prescription of school uniform is only a reasonable restriction, constitutionally permissible which the students cannot object to, a three-judge bench headed by Chief Justice Ritu Raj Awasthi further noted. (PTI)
Wearing a hijab is not an essential religious practice of Islam, the Karnataka High Court said on Tuesday as it dismissed various petitions challenging the ban on scarves in educational institutions in the state.
Here is a timeline of all that has happened in the hijab row till now
28 December 2021: Six girls in Udupi’s Government PU College permission are denied permission to wear hijab in classrooms.
1 January 2022: The six girls of this Udupi college attend a press conference held by the Campus Front of India (CFI) in the coastal town protesting against the college authorities denying them entry into classrooms wearing headscarves. Read full article
Calling it a violation of fundamental rights like freedom of religion, All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM) chief Asaduddin Owaisi said the hijab verdict will have a “negative impact on Muslim women.” Owaisi added, “Modernity is not about eschewing religious practices. What’s the problem if one wears a hijab?”
PDP president Mehbooba Mufti took to Twitter and called the Karnataka High Court verdict “deeply disappointing,” highlighting that this was was not only about religion but freedom of choice as well.
“Karnataka HC’s decision to uphold the Hijab ban is deeply disappointing. On one hand we talk about empowering women yet we are denying them the right to a simple choice. Its isn’t just about religion but the freedom to choose,” Mufti tweeted.
Reacting to today's verdict on hijab case, Karnataka Congress MP DK Suresh on Tuesday said that how could the Karnataka High Court give the verdict when the Islamic religion is accepted by the Constitution.
Students of The New College in Chennai on Tuesday protested against the Karnataka High Court's verdict on the hijab case. The HC dismissed various petitions challenging a ban on Hijab in education institutions and said that wearing hijab isn't an essential religious practice of Islam.
Reacting to the hijab verdict of the Karnataka High court on Tuesday, MS Sajid, national president of Campus Front of India (CFI) saidthat ,"Karnataka HC denies the constitutional rights of the citizens. We never accept the verdict that stands against the constitution and will continue the fight against the attempts to suppress individual rights. We appeal to the secular-minded to join this constitutional fight."
On the hijab verdict of the Karnataka High court on Tuesday, Minister for Primary and Secondary Education BC Nagesh said that the lacunae in the Karnataka Education Act will be set right. 'Uniform helps to bring everyone to the National Mainstream. The Women (students who filed petition before court) were 'misguided', we will convince them to attend colleges and exams,' he said.
On the day of the Karnataka High Court hijab judgement, the state governement deplpyed police infront of the Udupi Government PU college for girls.
Reacting to the Karnataka High Court hijab judgement on Tuesday, Karnataka Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai appealed for peace and harmony.
"All students should follow the high court order and should not boycott classes or examinations. We will have to abide by the court orders and will take strict action against those who would take law and order in hands," Bommai said.
The Karnataka High Court Tuesday said that the prescription of uniform is a reasonable restriction and upheld the hijab ban in colleges.
The Karnataka High Court Tuesday dismissed writ petitions filed by Muslims girl students seeking permission to wear hijab in colleges.
The Karnataka High Court Tuesday upheld the hijab ban and dismissed various petitions challenging a ban on scarfs in educational institutions in the state. The high court said that wearing hijab is not an essential religious practice of Islam.
Police and education officials are hoping that the issue can be settled quickly and quietly, especially as the Class X exams in state schools are scheduled to begin March 28 and the pre-university exams (for Classes XI and XII) are in April.
On February 11, the Supreme Court had declined to grant urgent listing for an appeal against the High Court’s interim order, and asked the petitioners not to “spread” the controversy to “larger levels”.
“I don’t want to express anything. Don’t spread these things to larger levels…We also know what is happening there in the state as well as in the hearings also. And you also have to think over whether it’s proper to bring those things to Delhi, national level issues and all that,” Chief Justice of India N V Ramana had told Senior Advocate Devadatt Kamat, who was representing students from Udupi.
A full bench of the Karnataka High Court has been hearing the case on a day-to-day basis since February 10. In its interim order, the bench asked the state government to reopen the educational institutions, which were hit by the agitation, and restrained students from wearing hijab and saffron scarves in the classroom till the final order is delivered.
The court said, '“pending consideration of all these petitions, we restrain all the students regardless of their religion or faith from wearing saffron shawls, (bhagwa) scarfs, hijab, religious flags or the like, within the classroom, until further orders.” It had said the order “is confined to such institutions wherein the college development committees have prescribed the student dress code/ uniform.”
The full bench of the Karnataka High Court, which concluded its hearing in the Hijab case, is likely to pronounce its verdict on Tuesday. According to the lawyers appearing for the petitioner girls from Udupi district, the matter pertaining to hijab case has been listed for Tuesday as serial No. 1 and the court may spell out the operative part of the verdict from 10.30 am onwards.
Karnataka on Monday registered 106 fresh coronavirus cases and four fatalities thereby taking the total till date to 39,43,912 and 40,022 respectively. There were 337 patients who got discharged and the number of recoveries were 39,01,430 so far, said a bulletin. Of the new cases, 61 were from Bengaluru Urban while there were 229 who got discharged from the city, the bulletin said. The number of active cases across the State was 2,420.
A screening of the recently-released film 'The Kashmir Files' is to be made for Karnataka legislators, said Assembly Speaker Vishweshwar Hegde Kageri on Monday. Chief Minister Basavaraj of the State Bommai on Sunday made an announcement making the movie tax free.
"An opportunity has been made for all of us (legislators) to watch the cinema 'The Kashmir Files', tomorrow (Tuesday) evening at 6.45 pm at screen number 6 of Mantri Mall, all should make use of this opportunity," Kageri said.
A 27-year-old youth died in the early hours of Monday after his two-wheeler met with an accident on a potholed road near MS Palya in the city.
At 9.20pm on Sunday, Ashwin, a native of Haveri district, was returning home from a restaurant, where he had gone to buy food for his mother, when he failed to notice a pothole and lost control of the two-wheeler, police sources said. He fell on the road, was seriously injured and later succumbed to the injuries at a nearby hospital. A police officer said there was a delay of 20-25 minutes in shifting Ashwin’s body to the hospital and that he had lost a lot of blood by the time he reached there.
“Two days ago I told him to ride carefully and specifically told him about the potholes which posed a danger. I am alive only because of him and have struggled a lot to raise him. But now I do not have a purpose to live. No mother should go through this pain,” his mother Vasudha said. Ashwin was her only son. (Read More)
Karnataka on Monday registered 106 fresh coronavirus cases and four fatalities thereby taking the total till date to 39,43,912 and 40,022 respectively.
There were 337 patients who got discharged and the number of recoveries were 39,01,430 so far, said a bulletin. Of the new cases, 61 were from Bengaluru Urban while there were 229 who got discharged from the city, the bulletin said.
The number of active cases across the State was 2,420. While the positivity rate for the day was 0.45 per cent, the case fatality rate was 3.77 per cent. The four deaths reported today were from Dakshina Kannada, Kalaburagi, Mandya and Vijayapura. (PTI)
The full bench of the Karnataka High Court, which concluded its hearing in the Hijab case, is likely to pronounce its verdict on Tuesday.
The demand by a section of girls in an Udupi pre-university college to wear Hijab inside their classrooms erupted into a major row after some Hindu students turned up in saffron shawls with the issue spreading to other parts of the state, even as the government insisted on a uniform norm.
According to the lawyers appearing for the petitioner girls from Udupi district, the matter pertaining to Hijab case has been listed for Tuesday as serial No. 1 and the court may spell out the operative part of the verdict from 10.30 am onwards. (PTI)
The ground testing of the newly-developed solid booster stage (SS1) for the new launch vehicle of ISRO -- Small Satellite Launch Vehicle (SSLV) -- was carried out on Monday at Satish Dhawan Space Centre in Andhra Pradesh's Sriharikota.
All the propulsion parameters during the test are found satisfactory and closely matching with the predictions, the Bengaluru-headquartered ISRO said in a statement.
SS1 motor is a three-segmented solid propulsion stage incorporating many new technologies and innovative processes that includes bond-free joint between the segments, high-power electro mechanical actuator with digital control electronics, optimised ignitor and simultaneous propellant casting of all segments, which have been successfully validated in the ground test, according to ISRO. (PTI)
Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL) has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with French firm Safran Helicopter Engines to extend their cooperation and explore opportunities for new helicopter engines in civil and military markets.
The MoU was signed during the ground-breaking ceremony for a new facility of Helicopter Engines MRO Pvt Ltd (HE-MRO), a joint venture of HAL and Safran at Sattari, 40 km from Panaji, in Goa.
Safran manufactures aircraft engines and aerospace components. Florent Chauvancy, executive vice-president of OEM Sales at Safran, and Amitabh Bhatt, CEO of HAL’s Bangalore Complex, signed the MoU. (Read More)
To bring 14 different departments serving the Bengaluru city on a single platform, the Bengaluru Smart City Ltd (BSCL) will establish an Integrated Command and Control Centre (ICCC) at the Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) headquarters, which will also be used as a system to raise public grievances.
Speaking to The Indian Express, BSCL managing director Rajendra Cholan, said, “The Integrated Control and Command Centre is a decision support system where information from various departments and various applications are collected, collaborated and analysed for better planning of the city, using ICT (Information and communication technology) as a backbone. It has intelligence engine(s), which will process and synchronise all the related information and generate insights. These insights are helpful in managing incidents across the city and do better planning for city development.”
According to BSCL, the platform to be integrated with 14 government departments for service delivery, which impacts the day-to-day lives of the Bengaluru citizens, will go live in another 100 days. “The command centre will be monitored 24×7 offering many other services such as Analytics and Business Intelligence Service Integrated Emergency or Disaster Response Coordination Service, Integrated Grievance Management Service, Integrated Mobility Management Service, Public Projects Information Management Service, GIS Service-Common GIS for Bengaluru,” Cholan explained. (Read More)
The National Green Tribunal (NGT) has directed the Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP), Karnataka State Pollution Control Board (KSPCB) and the minor irrigation department to file independent reports on the actions taken against encroachment and pollution of the Yele Mallappa Shetty lake in eastern Bengaluru on or before March 31.
The tribunal has also directed the minor irrigation department to submit a report regarding the construction of a sewage treatment plant (STP) within the water body. “We had directed them to ascertain any possibility of relocating the STP from the boundary of the water body. But quite unfortunately, they have not filed any independent report in this regard,” the NGT said.
While the BBMP has stated that they have removed the construction and demolition (C&D) waste from the waterbody and deployed marshals to protect the lake, the petitioner Jagan Kumar has refuted the claims and told The Indian Express: “There are encroachments in the lake by the government and private bodies. Buildings have come up and there has been no action taken yet. There is a direct discharge of waste in the lake and construction of an STP is also taking place within the water body itself. Moreover, the dumping of C&D waste has been rampant.” (Read More)
An Artificial Intelligence and Robotics Technology Park (ARTPARK) with seed money of Rs 230 crore was launched at the Indian Institute of Science in Bengaluru.
Of the Rs 230 crore, Rs 170 crore would be borne by the Central government and the rest by the Karnataka government, said Karnataka Minister for IT-BT C N Ashwath Narayan.
After opening the office of the ARTPARK, Ashwath Narayan said that ARTPARK, intending to use futuristic technologies to connect the unconnected, would work on creating a globally leading Artificial Intelligence and Robotics Innovation ecosystem in the country.
"Jobs are the need of the hour. ARTPARK has been set up to effectively use technology, specifically AI and robotics, for the country's betterment. The ARTPARK has the objective of channelising innovations to create a societal impact by executing ambitious mission-mode R&D projects in healthcare, education, mobility, infrastructure, agriculture, retail, and cyber-security aiming to solve problems unique to India," the Minister added.
The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) will unveil its latest sponsored research opportunities to academia on Tuesday.
'RESPOND BASKET 2022', the Bengaluru-headquartered space agency's focused research topics for sponsored research, will be launched by ISRO Chairman and Secretary in the Department of Space S Somanath.
"Every year, we publish ISRO-focused topics for research in the Respond Basket. Then, several universities and colleges apply to ISRO for joint collaboration. We will enter into MoUs with finalised academia," an ISRO official told PTI.
RESPOND's objective is to encourage academia to participate and contribute to various space-related research activities. Under RESPOND, projects are taken up by universities/academic institutions in the areas of relevance to the space programme. (PTI)
Karnataka Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai has decided to provide a hundred per cent tax exemption on Hindi feature film ‘The Kashmir Files’.
Bommai on Sunday evening took time off to watch the movie at Orion mall in Rajajinagar, Bengaluru. Kudos to @vivekagnihotri for #TheKashmirFiles, a blood-curdling, poignant and honest narrative of the exodus of Kashmiri Pandits from their home land. “To lend our support to the movie & encourage our people to watch it, we will make the movie tax-free in Karnataka,” Bommai tweeted.
The Bengaluru city police have booked four people, including two minors, for criminal trespassing after they ran on to the playing field and tried to take pictures with Virat Kohli during India’s Test match against Sri Lanka at M Chinnaswamy stadium on Sunday.
Close to stumps on the second day of the day-night Test, around 9.20pm, the four youths trespassed into the playing area during a break. In the video footage of the incident, the youths can be seen running towards Kohli to take a selfie.
A 35-year-old man was charred to death after his car accidentally caught fire due to a suspected short circuit near the Channasandra bridge on the NICE Road on Saturday night, said the police. The deceased is identified as Darshan Kumar, a resident of Uttarahalli and employee of a business processing outsourcing (BPO) company in Thyagarajanagar, added the police.
The incident took place around 10.30 pm when he was returning home alone in his Hyundai Santro after visiting a relative, said the police. According to the police, Kumar noticed a fire near the air condition vent. As he approached the Channasandra bridge, he pulled over to a side and tried to get out, said the police.