The White House pivot amounts to a tacit admission that the administration’s months-long containment effort has failed.
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‘That’s certainly not my approach’: Fauci rejects pursuing herd immunity
“We certainly are not wanting to wait back and just let people get infected," Fauci said.
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Karnataka IPS officer hospitalised in Bengaluru with bullet injury
RP Sharma IPS is being treated at the Columbia Asia Hospital in Bengaluru’s Hebbal, police sources confirmed.
Senior Karnataka IPS officer RP Sharma, 59, who is posted as Director General of Police Housing Corporation was rushed to a Bengaluru hospital following a bullet injury on Wednesday evening. Police say the injury was caused by accidental firing by the officer himself. “It's an accidental fire at home. He has given in his own handwriting. He is fine, conscious and interacting,” Bengaluru City Police Commissioner Kamal Pant told TNM. He is being treated at the Columbia Asia Hospital in Bengaluru’s Hebbal, police sources confirmed. He is due for retirement in December, sources said. In 2018, he had severaly criticised the Siddaramaiah government of intefering with the functioning of the police department. The government however took disciplinary action against him after his letter was leaked. The last time Sharma was in news was when he was in charge of Bangalore Metropolitan Task Force in 2017 and had earned praise for works related to removing encroachments from stormwater drains and other government/ public lands. He had become popular as he was acting on public complaints against Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike engineers and officials. Incidentally in 2013 too, he was caught in a controversy when he was then BMTF Additional Director General of Police. It was alleged that his wife Dr Nagambika Devi, IAS, had already got land from Bangalore Metropolitan Housing Society in 1998 as its member. The land was sold in 2002 but the IPS officer did not disclose this as mandated to the Mysore Police Cooperative Housing Society (MPCHS). However at that time Sharma had denied any wrongdoing and said that he had himself checked with the authorities on the legal issues. A top police officer in the state said that Sharma was suffering from multiple health ailments.
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Karnataka accepts Centre’s plan to make up for GST shortfall, opt for 1st option
Home Minister Basavraj Bommai who attended the recent GST council meet had said Rs 13,764 crore GST compensation is due from the Centre.
In a predictable development, the Karnataka government on Wednesday said it has accepted the GST compensation proposal floated by the union government. The BS Yediyurappa-led government said it has decided to opt for the first among the two options offered by the Centre for borrowing to meet the shortfall in GST revenues. WIth this, the state will be eligible for total compensation of Rs 18,289 crore. Non-BJP states like -Kerala, Punjab, Delhi, Telangana and West Bengal have rejected both the proposals. The decision was taken after Chief Minister BS Yediyurappa, who also holds the finance portfolio, held discussions with Finance department officials. "After the evaluation of both these options, it is felt that option 1 would be more beneficial to the State's finances. Hence the Government of Karnataka has decided to convey to the Government of India, its preference for Option 1," an official release from the Chief Minister's Office said. It said this would help the State augment its revenue in the present financial year. The CMO noted that under option 1, Karnataka would be eligible for total compensation of Rs 18,289 crore, of which Rs 6,965 crore would come from the cess collected. For the balance of Rs 11,324 crore, the state would be able to borrow through a special window with the entire burden of principal and interest repayment being met out of compensation cess fund in the future, it said. "Further an additional borrowing up to 1 % of GSDP (Rs 18,036 crore) will be available unconditionally and another 1 percent borrowing can be linked to certain reforms as earlier suggested by Government of India. These additional borrowings may also be carried forward to the next financial year if necessary," it said. Under option 2, the CMO said Karnataka would be eligible for a total compensation of Rs 25,508 crore, out of which Rs 6,965 crore would come from the cess collected. The remaining amount of Rs 18,543 crore would be allowed to be borrowed through an issue of market debt. However, in this option, unconditional borrowing of 1 % of GSDP (Rs 18,036 crore) will not be separately available to the state, as a result of which the net borrowing will reduce substantially by Rs 10,817 crore, it explained. Further, under option 2, the interest on the above borrowing through issue of market debt shall be paid by the State from its own resources, it added. Following the GST council meeting last week, the central governmnt had written to states, suggesting options of borrowing money to make up for the Rs 2.35 lakh crore shortfall in GST revenues expected in the ongoing fiscal. The Centre has estimated that of this amount, Rs 97,000 crore compensation requirement is due to GST roll out and the remaining is on account of the COVID-19 impact on the economy. Giving two options, the Centre had said states can borrow either Rs 97,000 crore the deficit arising out of GST implementation or the entire Rs 2.35 lakh crore. Home minister Basavaraj Bommai, who represented the state in the GST council, had earlier said that Karnataka has to get Rs 13,764 crore GST compensation from the Centre for the last four months and it was necessary for the state's economy
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Swift police action could have prevented riot: Siddaramaiah after DJ Halli visit
On the night of August 11, a mob had resorted to violence and arson in East Bengaluru after an allegedly offensive post by the nephew of a Congress MLA.
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Former Karnataka Chief Minister and current Leader of Opposition in the state Assembly Siddaramaiah on Wednesday visited the recently riot-hit areas of east Bengaluru within DJ Halli and KG Hallli police station limits. He was accompanied by his junior colleague and Shivaji Nagar MLA Rizwan Arshad and other Congress functionaries. On the night of August 11, a mob had gathered in front of the DJ Halli police station demanding the arrest of Naveen, the nephew of Congress MLA Akhanda Srinivas Murthy, for allegedly putting up an offensive post against Prophet Mohammed on social media. The mob torched several vehicles and left the MLA’s house and the DJ Halli police station partially gutted. In a series of tweets, Siddaramaiah said, “I was undergoing treatment for COVID-19 when DJ Halli incident happened and I have come now to visit the spot after completing quarantine norms.” Condemning the violence, Siddamraiah added that the incident could have been avoided had the police taken swift action against Naveen. I condemn the act of violence and all those who were involved in the violence should be punished. This could have been averted if police had taken swift action against Naveen. 2/3 — Siddaramaiah (@siddaramaiah) September 2, 2020 He also demanded that the police release people who have been allegedly wrongly apprehended. He tweeted, “I condemn the act of violence and all those who were involved in the violence should be punished. This could have been averted if police had taken swift action against Naveen.” He added, “Many are arrested for orchestrating violence in the DJ Halli. Police should gather evidence and pursue the case. Release those people against whom there is no evidence. Innocents should not be framed and at the same time real culprits should not be let off.” It may also be recalled that police had to open fire to contain the violence and three persons died of bullet injuries. Another person who was arrested had also died due to a pre-existing health complication, police have said. More than 300 persons have been arrested and police have also invoked the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act, 1967, and claimed that many of the accused in custody were also linked to the Church Street (2014) and Malleshwaram (2013) bomb blast cases. Functionaries of the SDPI (Social Democratic Party of India) and husband of a Congress corporator are among those who have been arrested in the case.
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IMD issues yellow alert for Bengaluru, thunderstorm warning for many K’taka districts
IMD forecasted low impact water pooling on Bengaluru roads and low lying areas for the two days.
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The India Meteorological Department (IMD) on Wednesday afternoon issued a thunderstorm warning for more than 10 districts in Karnataka mostly in the northern parts. The IMD also issued yellow and orange alerts for many parts of the state including Bengaluru. For Bengaluru, the agency forecasted low impact water pooling or water logging on roads and low lying areas for the next two days and issued a yellow alert ending September 7 morning. An alert was issued at 1:30 pm to the Deputy Commissioners of Belagavi, Bagalkot, Vijayapur, Raichur, Dharwad, Haveri,Gadag, Chitradurga, Chikkamagaluru, Tumakuru and Hassan. The IMD said these districts are likely to witnessthunderstorms with lightning accompanied with light to moderate spells of rain and gusty wind speed reaching 30-40 kmph likely in the next three hours. Orange alert has been issued for he next two days ending on Friday morning for Shivamogga, Chikkamaggaluru and Hassan. In a forecast on Tuesday, the Karnataka State Disaster Monitoring Centre had said there will be fairly widespread to widespread light to moderate rains with isolated heavy rains likely over Bengaluru city limits till Thursday morning. As part of its daily forecast, IMD on Wednesday said rain/thunderstorms were very likely to occur at most places over South Interior Karnataka; at many places over Coastal Karnataka and North Interior Karnataka. It also gave a heavy rainfall warning for the next 24 hours. “Very to very heavy rainfall likely to occur at isolated places over South Interior Karnataka, heavy rainfall likely to occur at isolated places over Coastal Karnataka & North Interior Karnataka,” the forecast read. Southwest monsoon is active over South Interior Karnataka and weak over Coastal Karnataka and North Interior Karnataka. Rainfall occurred at most places over South Interior Karnataka and over Coastal Karnataka and at a few places over North Interior Karnataka on Tuesday, IMD said. Only four IMD rainfall recording stations saw heavy rainfall while there were no instances of heavy rainfall or very heavy rainfall in other parts of the state.
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Drug peddler from Goa with alleged links to Karnataka film industry arrested
The arrest comes in wake of the Kannada film industry facing allegations of widespread drug use.
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The Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) on Tuesday arrested a Goa-based alleged drug peddler F Ahmed (30) on charges of supplying marijuana and other banned drugs to tourists and Bengaluru residents. The NCB said that his customers were in turn linked to prominent personalities in the Kannada film industry. Ahmed works as a driver with a famous resort in Goa, authorities said. The arrest was made as part of multi-location raids including in Delhi and Mumbai after an international drug peddling racket, which involved the supply of drugs like Methylenedioxymethamphetamine (MDMA) and Lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD), had come to light. The NCB seized 3.5 kg of curated marijuana, which they said is imported from the USA and Canada. They said the drugs were bought on the darknet and paid for, using cryptocurrencies. The arrest comes in wake of the Kannada film industry facing allegations of widespread illegal drug use, following a major drug bust on August 21, when the NCB had busted a synthetic drug racket and seized a diary from one of the accused. Investigation officials said that the diary allegedly contained the names of 15 celebrities including actors, musicians, models and reality TV actors from Karnataka. In multiple raids conducted by the NCB in upscale gated communities in Bengaluru at the time, the pan-India agency had recovered large quantities of MDMA and LSD. The prime accused Anikkha had reportedly admitted that she was selling imported drugs from 2014 to college students and had slowly built a network of celebrity customers, including filmstars. Incidentally, ex- Karnataka Chief Minister HD Kumaraswamy on Monday alleged that money from the drug mafia was used to fund the coup, which toppled the Congress-JD(S) coalition government. He claimed during his tenure as CM, many drug peddlers had gone to Sri Lanka due to the fear of getting arrested. He said due to this, it was money from these peddlers and betting rackets that were used to topple the coalition government. In another development on Monday, filmmaker Indrajit Lankesh who had also claimed that there is a widespread drug menace in Sandalwood went to the Central Crime Branch (CCB) of Bengaluru Police for questioning. In his interaction with the police, he had reportedly dropped a few big names. However, he did not submit any evidence, Joint Commissioner of Crime, Bengaluru Police Sandeep Patil said.
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