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15th Finance Commission grants for FY 2024-25 to the rural local bodies (RLBs) in Karnataka, the Union Panchayati Raj Ministry said in a statement. The funds are meant for all the 5,949 eligible gram panchayats in the state, it added. «The Government of India through the Ministry of Panchayati Raj and Ministry of Jal Shakti recommends the release of XV-FC grants to the Rural Local Bodies which are then released by the Ministry of Finance. The allocated grants are recommended and released in two installments in a financial year,» the statement said. The grants will be utilised by the RLBs for location-specific requirements under the 29 subjects enshrined in the 11th Schedule of the Constitution, except for salaries and other establishment costs, it added.

Dr. Gerba's groundbreaking study, published in the Journal of Dairy, Food, and Environmental Sanitation, highlighted the role that communal kitchen sponges and dishcloths play in spreading harmful bacteria across office kitchen surfaces. «Coliform bacteria were present on 20 per cent of the coffee cups before wiping, but after using a dishcloth or sponge, 100 per cent of the cups tested positive for bacteria,» he explained. He also noted that while no E. coli was found on the cups prior to being wiped down, 20 per cent tested positive for the bacterium afterward.

One of the nation’s largest meat processors has agreed to pay $2 million to resolve allegations of child labor violations at a plant in Minnesota

Asian Development Bank on Wednesday signed a USD 200 million (about Rs 1,680 crore) loan to help upgrade water supply, sanitation, mobility, and other urban services in Uttarakhand. The signatories to the loan agreement for the Uttarakhand Livability Improvement Project were Juhi Mukherjee, Joint Secretary, Department of Economic Affairs, Ministry of Finance and Mio Oka, country director of India Resident Mission, for ADB, a joint statement said.

State police have destroyed tens of thousands of pounds of marijuana plants at greenhouses in northwestern New Mexico

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. New Delhi: The European Investment Bank (EIB), which has committed to supporting India's green hydrogen sector with a €1 billion investment, is working with public sector enterprises Power Finance Corporation and Indian Renewable Energy Development Agency Ltd to identify and develop projects in the country, said Nicola Beer, vice president of the lending arm of the European Union. "We see opportunities in the green hydrogen mission of India.

Karnataka government is looking to address water and sanitation issues in rural areas through the adoption of innovative ideas and relevant technologies. The IT-BT and Rural Development and Panchayat Raj (RDPR) departments will host a ‘Karnataka Rural Water and Sanitation Sustainability Summit’ on October 29 and have invited startups to provide solutions. The event will feature a pitching session where selected startups can present their ideas, with winners receiving a minimum funding of Rs 25 lakhs. These budding startups will also have the opportunity to pilot their projects with the government, the department announced in a release. Entrepreneurs, academia, startups, and researchers can submit their potential pitch decks by October 23. IT-BT and RDPR minister Priyank Kharge said, “I intend to make Karnataka a water-secure state in the country. If I can solve this using deep tech in biotechnology or IT that ensures we get better portability, the government itself can become your (companies') first client.” He added that the government can help startups pilot these solutions within a sandbox environment and provide capital.

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The asset manager said oceans and freshwater play a «crucial role» in regulating the climate but are «under threat and their protection is underfunded», with the ‘Life Below Water' the least funded among the UN Sustainable Development Goals (UN SDGs), followed by ‘Clean Water and Sanitation' — the sixth least funded. According to Fidelity, the blue bond fund is the first fixed income strategy of the sort to launch globally, and will aim to balance ocean, coastal and in-land river usage and resources with the conservation of ecosystems. Fidelity closes UK-domiciled Sustainable Water & ...

One of Giovanni Airoli’s sows tested positive for African swine fever in late August

Swachh Bharat Mission launch by participating in the Swachh Bharat Diwas programme on October 2, during which he will launch and lay foundation stones for several projects related to sanitation and cleanliness worth more than Rs 9,600 crore. The Swachh Bharat Diwas programme will showcase India's decade-long sanitation achievements and those in the recently-concluded «Swachhata Hi Seva» campaign. «Marking the completion of 10 years of the launch of one of the most significant mass movements for cleanliness — the Swachh Bharat Mission — Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi will participate in Swachh Bharat Diwas 2024 programme on the occasion of 155th Gandhi Jayanti on 2nd October at around 10 AM in Vigyan Bhawan, New Delhi,» a statement issued by the Prime Minister's Office (PMO) said. The projects to be launched include those worth more than Rs 6,800 crore aimed at enhancing urban water and sewage systems under AMRUT and AMRUT 2.0, 10 projects worth over Rs 1,550 crore focused on improving water quality and waste management in Ganga basin areas under the National Mission for Clean Ganga and 15 compressed biogas (CBG) plant projects worth more than Rs 1,332 crore under the GOBARdhan scheme.

Har Ghar Jal scheme, all rural households will be provided with tap water connections by the year-end. As of now, all states and Union territories (UTs) have more than 50 per cent coverage of tap water connections in rural households with 11 states and UTs having 100 per cent coverage. The states and UTs with 100 per cent coverage of tap water connections in rural households are Goa; Andaman & Nicobar Islands; Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu; Haryana; Telangana; Puducherry; Gujarat; Punjab; Himachal Pradesh; Arunachal Pradesh; and Mizoram.

In a post on X, CM Patel said that the PM guided him on matters including restoring public life quickly. «As it has been raining heavily for the last three days across Gujarat, Prime Minister Narendra Modi ji once again had a telephonic conversation with me this morning to get information about the situation. He learned about the relief measures for the affected people of various districts of the state. Expressing concern over the flooding of the Vishwamitri river in Vadodara, he sought details of the relief and assistance being provided to the affected people,» he said.

Mann ki Baat. Modi covered a wide range of topics during the show, and spoke to the founders of a Bengaluru-based space tech start-up.

Self-driving technology company WeRide delayed its plan for an initial public offering in the U.S., citing its need for more time to complete documents.

A Mississippi poultry processing plant has agreed to a settlement with the U.S. Department of Labor that requires it to pay $164,814 in fines and put in place enhanced safety measures following the death of a 16-year-old boy at the facility

Narendra Modi on Thursday said many global companies want to invest in India and asked the state governments to compete among themselves to attract them. Addressing the nation from the ramparts of the Red Fort on the 78th Independence Day here, Modi said most of the people he met in his third term wanted to invest in India. «It's a golden opportunity» to make India a hub of global manufacturing, he said, and called upon state governments to make polices to attract investment, while ensuring good governance and law and order. Modi also said the country needs to work on "Design In India" and «Design for the World».

Telangana Chief Minister A Revanth Reddy on Friday said the state government would provide free electricity to about 30,000 government schools as part of measures to improve infrastructure facilities. Addressing a convention of teachers who have recently been promoted, he also said Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal won elections thrice as he improved government schools and provided quality education to the poor. Observing that electricity supply is a sine qua non for imparting quality education in schools, including using computers, he said power supply was stopped by the energy department when electricity bills of schools were not paid, he said. «When (free power) is given to farmers and 200 units free (power) is provided to the poor, why cannot free electricity be provided in schools where Telangana's future is built. I gave directives to our government officials to provide free power to the 30,000 schools in Telangana. The state government will take that burden,» he said.

Drinking Water and Sanitation has received a budgetary allocation of Rs 77,390.68 crores for the fiscal year 2024-2025. This figure reflects a minimal increase of only 0.5 per cent from the revised estimate of Rs 77,032.65 crore announced in budget 2023-2024.

Indian Navy Chief Admiral Dinesh K Tripathi is scheduled to visit Mumbai today to review the situation after warship INS Brahmaputra got severely damaged in a fire incident.

Amarnath Yatra set to begin in a week, Jammu and Kashmir Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha on Saturday said security arrangements have been tightened and facilities improved for the successful conduct of the pilgrimage. Jammu Additional Director General of Police Anand Jain has reviewed security arrangements along the Jammu-Srinagar national highway, emphasising the need for the highest level of alertness to scuttle any attempt by terrorists to disrupt the pilgrimage, officials said on Saturday. Taking part in the virtual 'Pratham Puja' ' which marks the ceremonial commencement of the Amarnath Yatra — at the Raj Bhavan in Srinagar on Saturday morning, Sinha said 'darshan' for the pilgrims across the country will start on June 29 when the yatra commences. «The (Shri Amarnath) Shrine Board and the J-K administration have made special arrangements for the pilgrims. In the last two years, the facilities for the yatris have improved a lot.»