Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah on Friday chaired the Energy Department Progress Review Meeting paving the way for significant reforms and actions to address the escalating electricity demand and enhance distribution efficiency in the state.
He was speaking after the launch of Kittur Utsav's Jyoti Yatra organized by the Department of Kannada and Culture and Belagavi District Administration in Bengaluru.
Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah on Wednesday spoke to a Kannadiga family whose daughter Pooja Umadi, a software engineer from Rabakavi town in Bagalakote district of Karnataka is stuck in Israel in the ongoing war against Hamas.
While speaking at the review meeting of the Forests and Mines and Geology departments here on Tuesday, he said that separate meetings of Mines and Geology, Revenue and Forest Department should be held by its Ministers and the officials to resolve the forest clearance and other permissions fr
According to officials, seven two-wheelers, a container lorry, and three other vehicles were gutted in the firecracker shop explosion that took place on Saturday afternoon.
As the Israel-Hamas war enters the second day, the Chief Minister's Office (CMO) in Karnataka has requested all Indian nationals to be vigilant in a government circular on Sunday.
Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah is likely to visit the gutted remains of a firecracker store in Attibele of Anekal town here, where a massive fire broke out on Saturday afternoon, claiming 14 lives.
Referring to the management of the drought situation by the Siddaramaiah government, Former Karnataka Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai said that the current attitude of the Congress government shows that it is not alive to the problems of the farmers.
"We need to know which community has remained socially, economically and politically backwards even after 76 years of independence. Ours is a caste-based society. Statistics are necessary to bring the socially, economically and politically backward castes to the mainstream," Siddaramaiah sai
Explaining the drought situation in the state, the Chief Minister said that 195 taluks have been declared drought-prone as per the central guidelines. Another 32 taluks fulfill the prescribed criteria.