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As many as 67 people were infected at the Jubilant Generics pharma firm in Nanjangud which saw infections spreading to the Mandya and Vijayapura region in the March to May period. There were no deaths reported in the cluster.

Production at the plant at Narasapura in Kolar district around 60 km from Bengaluru, employing 1,343 regular workers and 8,490 contract workers, was suspended following the violence.

The amendments allow non-agriculturists to buy agricultural land in the state. Successive governments have in recent years gradually diluted land ownership norms under the Land Reforms Act to facilitate industrial growth and agricultural land ownership by non-farmers.

JD(S) president and former prime minister H D Deve Gowda has said in a statement that his party was “completely” opposed to the Karnataka Prevention of Slaughter and Preservation of Cattle Bill, 2020.

At the end of a four-day winter session of the legislature on December 10, Shetty had rejected a BJP notice for a no-confidence motion against him on the grounds that it was not in order and that sufficient reasons had not been cited for it to be taken up.

Only about 10 per cent of cyber-crimes are investigated to the satisfaction of complainants —nearly 60 per cent of whom are people who have lost money in frauds or have been targeted with morphed pictures.

Forty-one cases filed under Section 366 over the last five years are currently pending trial in Bengaluru.

All parties have created boards and corporations for sub-sects in castes and religious groups with political objectives.

Investigations in over a dozen similar complaints made by police officers in Karnataka, Tamil Nadu and Telangana have led the Karnataka CID cyber unit to an organised cybercrime network operating mostly from Bharatpur and other parts of Rajasthan.

Mystery behind the bombings unravelled in October 2008 when four youths from Kerala were shot dead by security forces in Kashmir while they were allegedly attempting to cross over to Pakistan to join a Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) training camp.

The issue of deemed forests is a contentious one in Karnataka, with legislators across party lines often alleging that large amounts of agriculture and non-forest land are “unscientifically” classified as such.

The spree of these announcements by the BJP government in the state has come in for criticism from Opposition Congress, with former Chief Minister Siddaramaiah calling these “tactics” a “strategy to win elections and cause divisions in society”.

The Supreme Court has been monitoring enforcement of the forest Act since its intervention in the landmark T N Godavarman Thirumulpad vs Union of India case of 1995. In the backdrop of the ruling, 9.94 lakh hectares were deemed forest in Karnataka.

The case was filed over a failed 2005 satellite launch deal between the start-up and ISRO’s commercial arm Antrix Corporation.

Balakrishnan and Pinarayi Vijayan are yet to respond to Bineesh’s arrest.

Devas Multimedia was started by a group of former ISRO and World Space employees in 2004. The foundation for the deal was laid during a 2003 visit to the US by ISRO and government officials.

The big question, sources say, is whether this is a possible power struggle for the control of Bengaluru among underworld remnants from various groups.

6-7 from the city travelled to Syria in 2013-14, says agency

Private channel alleged quid pro quo for Bengaluru housing project; Karnataka CM’s grandson says ‘working loans’

Since September 23, when the health department introduced the scheme, only five private hospitals have come forward to sign agreements to borrow ventilators.

Amnesty called the freezing of accounts “akin to freezing dissent” and said the action was “the latest in the incessant witch-hunt of human rights organizations”, leaving them unable to carry on with campaign and research work in India.

The letters coincide with murmurs of growing unhappiness in the BJP over the way the government is being run.

One of the relatives, Ravi Miskin, allegedly told an “uncle” that his elder brother Ganesh was involved in the two murders, records show. The transcript of the conversation has been placed as evidence along with the chargesheet in the Kalburgi case to indicate Miskin’s involvement in both cases.

Devas was started by a group of former ISRO and World Space employees in 2004. The foundation for the deal was laid during a 2003 visit to the US by ISRO and government officials.