Karnataka News Live Updates: Power disruption in some localities for two days in Bengaluru

Bannerghatta Biological Park (BBP) on Thursday lost a Himalayan Black Bear due to prolonged illness. The 27-year-old was diagnosed with lymphosarcoma — malignant tumour in the intestine — said BBP veterinarians who conducted the postmortem.

Mohan, the bear, was rescued from New Grand Circus in Belagavi when he was 7 years old. “The rescued bear was brought to BBP and kept in the zoo. But for the past five years due to an eye-related disorder, he was confined to the enclosure and hardly came out. Though Mohan was put on normal diet, he refused to eat anything for the past 15 days and was put on intravenous (IV) fluids,” said a BBP official.

BENGALURU: The state cabinet on Thursday empowered chief minister Basavaraj Bommai to appoint the next chief secretary, in light of the incumbent P Ravi Kumar retiring on May 31.

Soon after the cabinet meeting, law minister JC Madhuswamy briefed the media and said a list of nine candidates has been given to the CM to pick from. It includes senior-most bureaucrat Vandita Sharma and her husband additional chief secretary (finance) ISN Prasad, Rajneesh Goel (ACS-home), Ajay Seth (central deputation), EV Ramana Reddy (ACS-industries), Rakesh Singh (ACS-water resources), Shalini Rajneesh (ACS-planning), G Kumar Naik (ACS-power), and Gaurav Gupta (ACS-IDD).

Friday: Bellandur village, Bellandur Main Road, Bommanahalli, NGR Layout, Roopena Agrahara, Garvebhavipalya, Reliable Layout, KLV Layout, Royal Lake Front, KCA Layout, Himagiri Layout and Anjanapura BDA 5th Block

Saturday: Bommanahalli, NGR Layout, Roopena Agrahara, Sulikunte, Muthanalur Cross, Begur Main Road, Vidya Jyothi School Road, SR Naidu Layout, New Mico Layout, Junnasandra Main Road, Sun City, MS Ramaiah City and Raghavendra Layout. tnn

The Karnataka high court on Thursday clarified that Xiaomi Technology India is at liberty to take an overdraft from the banks and make payments, excluding the payment of technology royalty.

Vacation judge Justice S Sunil Dutt Yadav said that now the matter is between the banks and the petitioner company, Xiaomi.

The judge also extended till May 23, the interim order passed by the court on May 5 .

For 109 days, three Kashmir students were living in constant fear in Hindalga central jail after they were arrested in a sedition case for allegedly creating a pro-Pakistan video in February 2020. The students, who were pursuing civil engineering at a private college in Hubballi, were also attacked by right-wing activists.

But with the sedition law (Section 124A of the IPC) now being put on hold by the Supreme Court, which has stayed registration of FIR and ongoing probes on the issue, the students heave a sigh of relief. READ MORE

One in four women are married off to a blood relative in Karnataka, according to a recently-published data from the National family Healthy Survey-5.

The latest NFHS-5 conducted between 2019-2021, shows that Tamil Nadu has the highest number of consanguineous marriages at 28% with Karnataka close behind at 27%. The national average is 11% but the South Indian states of Tamil Nadu, Karnataka, and Andhra exceed that mark by 1.5 times. READ MORE

The BJP government in Karnataka has taken the ordinance route to prohibit religious conversion by way of marriage or inducements following delay in the passage of the anti-conversion bill in the legislature.

After a meeting of the cabinet, law minister JC Madhuswamy said: “The cabinet has decided to take the ordinance route as the legislature is not in session.” He deflected questions on the urgency when they could have done it in two months’ time.