Belagavi: Fear has gripped the people of Belagavi city, especially in Hindwadi area, after a man tried to kidnap a 10-year-old girl in broad daylight .
Belagavi: Police personnel from Athani and Aigali conducted a raid and seized 23 tractors, four earth movers and a tipper used for illegal extraction .
JHARKHAND: Gloria from Thetaigangar block of Jharkhand’s Simdega district used to waste her time sitting idle before joining the Mahila Utpadak Samooh, a women’s cooperative involved in collection and selling of forest produce, especially medicinal plants and herbs.
Now, this gives her an additional earning of over Rs 4,000 every month. More than 12,500 rural women like Gloria are benefitting from the training programme of Jharkhand State Livelihood Promotion Society (JSLPS) under Medicinal Plant Project of the Mahila Kisan Sashaktikaran Pariyojana.
Under the project, women living in and around forests are trained in collection and processing of Kusum, Karanj, tamarind and other forest produce. They are also being provided market linkage through Palash Mart spread across the state. With this government initiative, tribal women are earning over Rs 4,000 every month. Moreover, about 300 farmers are also earning up to Rs 5,000 by working with rural service centres.
Roopa, Nimbalkar among senior IPS officers transferred by govt
News Network
January 1, 2021
Bengaluru, Jan 1: In a fallout to the bureaucratic squabble over the Rs 619- crore Bengaluru Safe City Project, the state government on Thursday transferred Home Secretary Roopa D as the managing director, Karnataka State Handicrafts Development Corporation Ltd while another IPS officer involved in the controversy, Hemant Nimbalkar, was transferred as IGP, Internal Security Division.
Ordering the transfer of IPS officers, the state government not only upgraded the Secretary, Home Department but also brought in senior IPS officer and ADGP Malini Krishnamoorthy as Principal Secretary (PCAS), Home Department.