Tag: Shivamogga

Shivamogga Zilla Panchayat in Karnataka provided rent free space to traditional pottery workers to sell earthen lamps. As a result of this, the prices of the lamps have reduced by half. This move benefitted many women SHG (Self Help Group) workers in the district. The workers will not have to pay for shops at government office's premises till Diwali.

Bengaluru: About 6 per cent of the electorate cast their votes Saturday in the first two hours of polling for the by-elections to three Lok Sabha and two assembly constituencies in Karnataka. While the Lok Sabha constituencies of Shivamogga, Ballari and Mandya recorded 7.16 per cent, 4.4 per cent and 4.18 per cent voting respectively […]

Bengaluru: An explosion of a truckload of explosives, suspected to be meant for mining, killed at least eight people in Karnataka’s Shivamogga district on Thursday night and sent shockwaves in neighbouring areas, police said. The massive explosion took place near a gravel and boulder crushing facility around 10.30 pm, sending shockwaves not only in Shivamogga, […]