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Belagavi-based wildlife conservationist Giridhar Kulkarni had requested the Forest Department to transfer the camp from JLR to the department in 2022. He had reasoned that the transfer to JLR had led to the Hemmadaga Eco-Development Committee, an association of villagers, not getting any money. The sanctuary was not bringing any…

The revised voter turnout in the final of the two-phase Lok Sabha polls in Karnataka on Tuesday, which sealed the future of 227 candidates, stood at 71.84%, higher than the 68.96% recorded in 2019 in these 14 constituencies. In 2014, these 14 constituencies recorded a turnout of 66.62%.

This is the finding of a study, titled ‘What drives poor quality of care for child diarrhoea? Experimental evidence from India’, which was conducted across 253 medium sized towns (population between 10,000 and 1.5 lakh) in Karnataka and Bihar to explore the reasons for underprescription of ORS in India.

Top news developments in Karnataka on May 8, 2024

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Braving the scorching heat — with the mercury hovering between 44° and 46° Celsius across the Kalyana Karnataka region and reaching a maximum of around 40° Celsius in Kittur Karnataka region — people came out in good numbers to exercise their franchise in the 14 Lok Sabha constituencies on Tuesday.

Bengaluru Lok Sabha polls: 66.05% voter turnout in Karnataka's second phase, Chikkodi records highest at 72.75%.

Polling concluded in 93 seats across 11 states peacefully in the third phase of the Lok Sabha polls with a voter turnout of 61.78 percent on Tuesday, as per provisional figures.

As the curtains came down on the hard-fought and high-pitched Lok Sabha elections amid the sweltering heat in Karnataka on Tuesday, it will be nearly a month-long tense wait for the electoral fortunes to be known. The counting of votes across the country will take place on June 4. Amid…