Crops destroyed after untimely rains at Koradur village in Haveri district.
Hubballi: There appears to be no end to the woes of the agrarian community in north Karnataka.
Farmers who had hoped to recoup losses they suffered owing to a particularly intense monsoon between June and September, with a promising harvest of the rabi crop have more cause for despair with unseasonal rain in January destroying produce ready for reaping.
Worse still, flowering of the mangoes that ought to occur this month too has been impacted owing to the rain. This is likely to push the price of the tropical fruit up this year. Bapugouda Bharamagoudra, an organic farmer in Yalavatti in Gadag, said that the prolonged monsoon had compelled the ryots to defer sowing for the rabi crop. “We had expected to reap a good harvest of chickpea and other such crops. But the untimely rain is destroying crops such as wheat, chickpea and groundnut. While the rain has impacted pollination of the chickpea crop, the qu
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BENGALURU: BJP and Congress are scrambling to shortlist candidates for bypolls to the Belagavi Lok Sabha constituency and Basavakalyan and Maski assembly segments. The elections are likely to be held in late February or early March, and it will be another high-voltage clash after the recent Sira and RR Nagar contests.
The main parties will be eager to test their message and reach as they start early preparations for the 2023 assembly elections.
There is considerable interest in the Belagavi race as the district has often been the epicentre of Karnataka politics. Both BJP and Congress camps here are led by strong local politicians. BJP is thought to have the edge as it currently holds six of the eight assembly segments in the constituency.
Bullet mark on the wall of the house
KARWAR: A spurned lover allegedly opened fire at a house, where a bride was staying for her wedding, at Sakalabena area of Avarsa village in Ankola taluk in the wee hours of Saturday.
Rajesh Gaonkar was said to be in love with Geeta (name changed), a resident of Ramanaguli village in Yellapur taluk. The incident happened before the bride was to visit Lakshminarayana Kalyana Mantapa (marriage hall) at Avarsa.
The groom hails from Keni village in Ankola taluk. The wedding party comprising Geeta and her family members arrived at the house of her aunt in Avarsa on Friday. Around 4am on Saturday, a loud sound was heard outside the room where the bride was sleeping. Upon checking, the house inmates found a bullet mark it had pierced through a window and on to a wall.
HUBBALLI: Union minister for parliamentary affairs, coal and mines Pralhad Joshi has informed that Union minister for road and surface transport and h.
The dump yard spanning 17 acres located on Karwar Road on the outskirts of Hubballi
HUBBALLI: Environmental engineers of the solid waste management (SWM) wing of Huballi-Dharwad Municipal Corporation (HDMC) are confident of clearing mountains of garbage created at the dumping yards of the twin cities.
Over the last decade, a series of discussions and meetings have been conducted to dissolve mounds of garbage at these yards. This time, the engineers have decided to take to bio mining, which is a technique to extract/ segregate minerals and useful materials from mounds of waste.
Mallikarjun B E, environmental engineer (SWM wing) said that the waste generated in the city is being dumped at yards located on Karwar Road in Hubballi (17 acres) and at Hosayallpur in Dharwad (16 acres). As the garbage is being discarded at these yards for the last 50 years, mountains of garbage have been formed there, he said.