| 'The BJP forged a politico-business nexus in K'taka' | 22-NOV-09 |
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| The recent crisis in the BJP government in Karnataka was focused on whether B S Yeddyurappa would remain as the chief minister or would the rebels get their way, or whether the BJP central leadership would succeed in affecting a compromise. |
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| Karnataka to harness wind energy | 20-NOV-09 |
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| Energy-starved Karnataka is looking to harness renewable energy to meet the demand-supply gap in the state. The government, which is in the process of finalising a dedicated policy for renewable energy, has identified a potential to produce 12,000 Mw from wind energy alone. |
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| Shettar inducted into Karnataka cabinet | 18-NOV-09 |
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| Jagadish Shettar, who resigned as speaker of Karnataka assembly on Monday, was inducted into the 18-month-old B S Yeddyurappa government today. This marks the fulfillment of yet another condition of the compromise formula worked out with the dissident group by the chief minister. |
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| High Potential for Indian Economy, but too early for Exuberance | 13-NOV-09 |
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| The Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) Karnataka today organized the Annual CFO Conference 2009 with the theme ‘Road to Recovery – The CFO’s Role’. The conference was aimed at illustrating the key take-away and learning from the recent economic downturn, focusing on the strategies that have worked for CFOs in challenging times in transforming finance for greater value creation, influencing corporate strategy and impacting organisational performance, all of which has redefined the conventional role of the CFO in the organisation. |
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| Plantation industry faces acute shortage of labour | 13-NOV-09 |
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| Labour shortage in the plantation industry has intensified in the last 3-4 years, with the availability of skilled and unskilled labourers dropping by over 20 per cent. Rapid industrialisation and improvement in the socio-economic conditions have lured labourers to urban areas. This is affecting agricultural operations and harvesting of plantation crops, consequent to which crop yield and returns have diminished, said Ajoy Thipaiah, chairman, the Karnataka Planters’ Association (KPA). |
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| Experts urge for GM-free Karnataka | 12-NOV-09 |
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| “We do not want GM (genetically modified) crops which can prove apocalyptic for mankind. Let us say never to Bt-brinjal”. The declaration, along with the demand that state government declare Karnataka GM-free, was made at a state-level conference on genetic engineering, farming and food in Mysore on Saturday. |
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| Karnataka CM revokes transfer orders of top officials | 11-NOV-09 |
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| Fulfilling yet another condition of dissident leaders as part of the compromise formula worked with them, Karnataka Chief Minister B S Yeddyurappa today revoked the transfer orders of some top bureaucrats, almost two weeks after they were shunted out by him. |
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| Karnataka to implement Vaidyanathan Committee report | 10-NOV-09 |
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| The state government will soon implement recommendations of the Prof A Vaidyanathan Committee on reviving the rural primary agricultural credit cooperative societies in Karnataka. The state cabinet has approved the committee’s report. |
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| Karnataka's lone woman minister Karandlaje resigns | 10-NOV-09 |
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| A day after dissident leaders dropped their demand for the removal of Chief Minister B S Yeddyurappa, Shobha Karandlaje, the lone woman minister in Karnataka’s Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) government, resigned today. |
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| Mining political rents | 10-NOV-09 |
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| A common thread runs through the political crisis in Karnataka and the investigations into the money-laundering by Jharkhand’s former chief minister Madhu Koda. This is the rising influence of resource extracting contractors and other moneyed interests in national politics. The ancient regime of the “Licence-Permit Raj” was supposed to end the role of money power in politics. But India’s unreformed party political funding system and the new opportunities for politicians to seek kickbacks from business interests have contributed to a snowballing of rent-seeking. Most political parties are guilty of contributing to this syndrome. |
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| Karnataka BJP crisis resolved | 08-NOV-09 |
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| The week-long political crisis that paralysed the BJP government in Karnataka blew over today following a compromise between the warring sides under which a coordination committee will be formed, a woman minister may be removed and the Speaker inducted into the Cabinet. |
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| Karnataka Bhawan is jam-packed | 08-NOV-09 |
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| The Karnataka Bhawan is packed with VIPs these days and the common Kannadigas are finding it difficult to get an accommodation in their state guest house. The BJP MLAs are camped there, besides a large Congress delegation that has come to hold parleys with the top leadership in New Delhi. HR Bharadwaj, the governor, also made a trip to the national capital while the political crisis in Karnataka was at its peak. Many thought Bharadwaj had come because of the current crisis, but the former law minister made it clear that his trip was planned almost two months ago when the BJP government was running smoothly. “I had come for a family wedding and to meet my chartered accountant for some accounts,” Bharadwaj told reporters. |
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| Karnataka CM hints at patch-up | 07-NOV-09 |
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| Karnataka Chief Minister BS Yeddyurappa has reacted to dissident Reddy brothers’ demand for a ‘better leadership’ in the state with a unique concession: he shifted his Principal Secretary V P Baligar, whose removal was one of the demands of the dissident camp, to the industries department. I S N Prasad has replaced him as secretary to the chief minister. |
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| Yeddyurappa shunts out Principal Secy | 06-NOV-09 |
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| Initiating the first move towards breaking the political logjam and to bring the dissident leaders gunning for his removal to the negotiating table, Karnataka Chief Minister B S Yeddyurappa today transferred his Principal Secretary V P Baligar. |
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