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A Zomato warehouse supervisor in Bengaluru told Kannada-speaking workers to learn Hindi or leave in a viral video. After protests and a police petition, he apologised in Kannada, but activists demand removal.
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Karnataka ASHA workers protested in Karwar, Shivamogga and Hassan demanding Rs 15,000 monthly remuneration and relief from entering SAMASTA health data on their personal phones.
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DIG of Prisons M. Somashekhar allegedly sexually exploited a convict's wife in exchange for her husband's parole and release, the woman claimed in a court statement under Section 183 BNSS. Her husband was freed on a forged Supreme Court order.
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Karnataka's ASHA workers are protesting for a long-promised honorarium hike and against unpaid digital work via the SAMASTA health app. Slow servers, no phones and withheld pay have turned digitisation into a burden, workers say — the latest flare-up after the January 2025 strike.
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Three central inter-ministerial teams began a three-day ground assessment in Karnataka, where 217 of 240 taluks are drought-hit. The state seeks ₹3,705 crore immediately and pegs total crop losses at ₹50,000-60,000 crore, with over 31 lakh farming families affected.
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A Karnataka SIT has filed a 22,000-page charge sheet naming former BJP MLA Subhash Guttedar, his son and five others in an alleged racket to delete 5,994 voters' names in Aland during the 2023 elections, while a special court granted the accused anticipatory bail.
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Karnataka's chief electoral officer has ordered criminal action over bulk Form 7 voter-deletion applications -- many with faked death certificates -- after the CM alleged a BJP-JD(S) conspiracy to delete 45 lakh voters, mostly minorities and Dalits.
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Bengaluru's AI cameras issue 19,000 challans a day, and the official story is 99% accuracy. But when a guitar became a helmetless pillion rider — and the human reviewer signed off on it — the machine showed its real philosophy: accuse automatically, and make the citizen prove otherwise.
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Bengaluru Traffic Police's AI cameras flag more than 19,000 violations a day. But after one camera mistook a guitarist's instrument for a helmetless pillion passenger and issued a Rs 500 challan — which even human review failed to stop — the claim of '99% accuracy' is looking shaky.
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South Western Railway will cancel 26 round trips of the Bengaluru–Mangaluru/Karwar day trains in October, sparing only the peak Dasara week. For coastal Karnataka's students, workers and festival travellers, it means another October of shrinking options on a busy corridor.
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When a state must beg Delhi for disaster money that is owed by right, federalism has become charity. Karnataka's drought letter exposes a system that makes farmers wait for files while the rain fails.
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Congress chief Mallikarjun Kharge has written to PM Narendra Modi and Home Minister Amit Shah seeking urgent release of ₹3,705.30 crore in drought relief for Karnataka, which faces a 58% rainfall deficit and estimated crop losses of ₹18,748 crore.
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About 100 guest lecturers of Bengaluru's Maharani Cluster University have boycotted classes for a week over a remuneration dispute, warning of a hunger strike. They are the face of a broken system: Karnataka's public universities run on 3,434 guest lecturers against just 1,477 permanent teachers.
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Karnataka CM D.K. Shivakumar and his cabinet staged a five-hour sit-in outside the state election office over mass Form-7 filings seeking voter deletions. The CEO ordered an inquiry and action against false filings, while the BJP calls the five FIRs against its workers political persecution.
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Across Karnataka, pre-printed Form-7 applications seeking the bulk deletion of Muslim voters' names have surfaced during the SIR of electoral rolls — from Kodagu to Belagavi to Bhalki. FIRs allege forgery and conspiracy; the CEO has ordered legal action. The BJP calls it legitimate verification.
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Karnataka CM D.K. Shivakumar staged a five-hour dharna at the CEO's office in Bengaluru, alleging a conspiracy to delete around 4.5 million eligible voters — poor, minority, Dalit and backward communities — through bulk pre-printed Form-7 applications. Hours later, the EC ordered action against false filers across all 224 constituencies.
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Karnataka's drug regulator found hospitals billing patients 10 to 52 times the procurement cost of cancer drugs, antibiotics and consumables. Health Minister U.T. Khader has written to the Centre with an 11-point demand for price regulation; verification raids continue.
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