Congress leaders during a massive rally at the National College grounds in Bengaluru on Thursday
Karnataka to identify 100 backward talukas as aspirational to ensure all-round development
The Karnataka budget presented on Friday proposes to identify talukas left behind in areas such as health, education and nutrition as aspirational talukas to develop them. The government aims to improve the quality of education in 93 talukas, strengthen the health services in 100 talukas and eradicate child malnutrition in 102 talukas at a total cost of Rs 3,000 crore.
A primary health centre with higher workload will be identified in each of the 100 aspirational talukas and upgraded to 25-bed model community health centres in two years at a cost of Rs1,000 crore. As many as 438 Namma Clinics will be established in major cities of the state, and in all wards of Bengaluru. These clinics will detect non-communicable diseases and refer patients to specialists for further treatment.
The government will provide coaching for National Eligibility-cum-Entrance Test for medical admissions in all talukas and facilitate loans for poor students securing admission under the government quota in all medical colleges. Private medical colleges will be classed into A, B, C and D categories and fees fixed by the fee regulation committee.
Bitcoin-drugs case: Bengaluru police file chargesheet against 11
Over a year after it unearthed a racket involved in the purchase of drugs from the dark net using Bitcoin, the Bengaluru crime branch police have filed a chargesheet against 11 persons, including the son of a former Congress MLA, a police constable and an international hacker Srikrishna Ramesh alias Sriki, under the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances (NDPS) Act of 1985.
The case involving the purchase of drugs through the dark net, unearthed by the crime branch in November 2020, eventually led to the cracking of several cybercrimes in Karnataka involving Srikrishna Ramesh (26), including a Rs 11.5 crore heist from the Karnataka e-governance cell in July-August 2019.
The drug case emerged on November 4, 2020, when law student Sujay M, who was part of a group involved in procuring drugs through the internet, was arrested at the foreign post office in south Bengaluru’s Chamarajpet when he turned up to collect an international parcel of 500 grams of hydro ganja.
Fashion designer Prasad Bidappa’s son Adam Bidappa arrested for sending obscene texts to actor
Adam Bidappa, son of fashion designer Prasad Bidappa, was on Friday arrested for allegedly sending obscene messages to a Kannada film actor.
“Me & my family are in extreme shock and have been brutally attacked on WhatsApp by a certain VVIP’s son… He was completely drunk and out of his senses on Friday night at 11 pm on February 25, when he sent me those messages… The messages are abusive, brutal, disgusting, cheap, hurting, very very insulting and have caused a lot of mental disturbance to me in the last one week,” the actor said in a statement shared with the media. “I am seven months pregnant. I am refraining from indulging in anything that causes negative energy…” she added.
The actor filed a complaint on Thursday at the Indiranagar police station.
