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Karnataka Today newsletter: Direct transfer cash to Anna Bhagya beneficiaries, and more
Unable to procure the required quantity of rice to implement the Anna Bhagya scheme, Karnataka government has decided to pay ₹34 per kg to the beneficiaries. This will apply to five kg per person in the BPL and Antyodaya card holding families.
The cash will be transferred through DBT, starting from July 1. This is being seen as a temporary alternative till enough rice stock is raised through a tender to be floated shortly. The decision was taken at the State Cabinet meeting on Wednesday, June 28.
The Cabinet also decided on July 14 as the tentative date to open applications for the Gruha Lakshmi scheme, which entails monthly financial assistance of ₹2,000 to woman head of the family.
The National Investigation Agency (NIA) on June 27 conducted extensive searches at the houses of three absconding suspects in the case related to the alleged murder of BJP Yuva Morcha member Praveen Nettaru by the cadres of Popular Front of India (PFI) in Bellare village of Sullia taluk last year.
NIA seized several electronic gadgets and documents during the searches at the houses of Abdul Nasir and Abdul Rahaman in Kodagu district and Naushad in Dakshina Kannada district. All three are suspected of harbouring the main assailants of Nettaru at various hideouts across Karnataka and Tamil Nadu State.
The High Court of Karnataka on June 28 declined to quash the FIR registered against Congress leaders Rahul Gandhi, Jairam Ramesh and Supriya Shrinate for using a song from Kannada movie KGF Chapter-2 for their online campaign for Bharat Jodo Yatra in violation of copyright.
Justice M. Nagaprasanna passed the order while dismissing the joint petition filed by the Congress leaders questioning the legality of registration of criminal case by MRT Music.
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