In a horrifying incident, a 35-year-old tribal woman was assaulted and stripped in public by a group of people in Karnataka s Dakshina Kannada district, police said on Monday.
The Karnataka Administrative Reforms Commission-2 (KARC-2) on Friday asked the government to allow owners of sites to convert their B-Khata to A-Khata by paying a fee. This is one of the 1,165 recommendations that the KARC-2 made in its second and third reports that were submitted to Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai. The KARC-2 is headed by former chief secretary TM Vijay
Karnataka has ordered that no agricultural land measuring less than 5 guntas, or 5,445 sq ft, can get a survey number. This means such small parcels can neither be bought nor sold. This, authorities say, will help regulate the rampant sale of very small extents of agricultural lands around urban areas that end up becoming residential plots or “revenue sites”.
The Court did not find any illegality in the action of the State, noting that the defendants had the right to correct the entries since the land was leased as “forest”.
The Karnataka Cabinet on Thursday decided to amend municipal laws to create a separate slab of property tax for industries and industrial areas, sources said. Taxing industries separately was a demand from various industry bodies as they argued that the property tax currently being levied at commercial rates is very high. Industries Minister Murugesh Nirani is said to have