Study shows the birth rate drop is more drastic in southern districts
There has been an alarming decline in the fertility rates of women in Karnataka in the past decade, a study of the available 2011 census data has revealed.
The study conducted by the Population Research Centre at Institute for Social and Economic Change (ISEC) shows the fertility rate has declined to two children per woman in the State in the past five years, resulting in a faster negative growth in the child and young population in future.
The Festival of Lights is over, but it will take a few days for civic workers in the City to clear the heaps of garbage left behind on the streets by those bursting crackers.
The City, that usually generates 4,800 tonnes of garbage everyday, is supposed to have produced about 7,000 tonnes of garbage daily in the last two days, said Palike engineers.
Sesa Goa expects the mining ban in Karnataka to be lifted by December, enabling the Vedanta group firm to resume normal production in the state from early 2012.
‘It will benefit people who had build houses on government land'
Chief Minister D.V. Sadananda Gowda said on Monday that the State Government would amend the Karnataka Land Revenue Act to give title deeds to people who had built houses on government land, except on the forest land, and depressed class (DC manna) land.
The Centre has cleared a proposal for laying a six-lane expressway between Bangalore and Chennai, where vehicles can zoom at a speed of up to 120 kmph.
Almost four years after work on the Metro construction in Bangalore began, the Metro rail today officially chugged out of the Mahatma Gandhi Road station towards destination Bayappanhalli.
On the mass rapid transit system in Singapore, one of the oldest Metro rail systems in these parts of the world at well over 30 years now, an average working-class person does not carry the baggage
