KARNATAKA

Param Pravega Commissioned By IISC Bengaluru

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The Indian Institute of Science (IISC) in Bengaluru has launched “Param Pravega,” one of India’s most powerful supercomputers.

Highlights:

The supercomputer Param Pravega has a supercomputing capacity of 3.3 petaflops. It is an Indian academic institution’s largest supercomputer.

Param Pravega is a supercomputer that belongs to the High-Performance Computing system family.

This system comprises a variety of heterogeneous nodes, with CPU nodes powered by Intel Xeon Cascade Lake processors.

It includes a Software stack on top of the hardware that includes various program development tools, utilities, and libraries for developing and executing High-Performance Computing (HPC) applications.

MM Hills sanctuary all set to become a tiger reserve

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:MM Hills Wildlifesanctuary is inching closer to become a tiger reserve. Following necessary approval from both the Centre and (NTCA) in July, which was delayed due to the pandemic, now forest department sources claim the State Government may notify the wildlife sanctuary as a tiger reserve anytime soon.

As a formal notification from the state government is needed to get more funds for protection of tigers as well as for conservation, to avoid poaching and man animal conflict in the tiger reserve, the forest department is expecting the notification from the state government soon. The state board for wildlife has approved the proposal.

The sactuary is spread over 90,618.75 hectares with a core of 670.95 sq km and a buffer zone of 235.19 sq km. Becoming a tiger reserve will help the forest department get an additional Rs 25 crore to Rs 30 crore annually which can be used to mitigate man animal conflict, set up anti-poaching camps and install more camera traps.

Karnataka ranks 3rd in national Covid vaccination coverage

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Karnatakastands third among major states in the country and first in south India inCovidvaccination coverage.

As of Saturday, 93% of the eligible Population got the first dose and 64% second, according toUnion Health ministrydata.Gujaratleads the country with 94% getting the first dose and 75% second, followed by Madhya Pradesh with 93% having taken the first dose and 70% fully vaccinated.

Active cases cross 7,000The state reported 397 new Covid cases, including 207 from Bengaluru. With that, the number of active cases touched 7,012.

About 20 districts in Karnataka are among the top 50 in the country to implement the ambitious eSanjeevani scheme, under the National Telemedicine Service (NTS) of the Union government. The state is in the second position after Andhra Pradesh.

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Despite the lack of Internet penetration, the initiative has now completed 1 crore consultations across the nation, of which nearly 20 lakh is from Karnataka. Interestingly, some of the backward districts of North-Karnataka are also leading, indicating the dedicated field work carried out by the district Health departments. As OPDs were closed during the lockdowns, more people started to use this service and now continue the same for risk-free consultations.

According to the data shared by the Union health and family welfare department, Ballari has recorded the highest engagement registering 1,34,967 consultations which is also higher than Bengaluru urban district. It is ranked 13th place in the country. The NTS comprises of two variants of eSanjeevani namely doctor to doctor (eSanjeevani AB-HWC) telemedicine platform that is based on a hub and spoke model and patient to doctor telemedicine platform (eSanjeevaniOPD) which provides outpatient Services to the citizens in the confines of their. The former was introduced in 2019 and the latter was in April 2020.

Karnataka approves Foxconn’s Rs 8,000-crore mobile manufacturing unit plan near Bengaluru

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The Karnataka government on Monday, through its state high-level clearance committee (SHLCC), cleared the proposedRs 8,000-crore by Taiwanese company Foxconn.
The project is to manufacture mobile devices and is expected to come up on the outskirts of Bengaluru, across the Doddaballapur and Devanahalli taluks.
The project received the green Light at a meeting that saw 10 proposals worth Rs 75,393 crore being cleared.

Karnataka CM Basavaraj Bommai: Inter-State Water Disputes Act needs to be totally amended

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Karnatakachief minister BasavarajBommai said the ‘Inter-State Water Disputes Act‘ needs to be totally amended, as it creates more disputes than resolving them. He was addressing the southern states’ conclave on the ‘Jal Jeevan Mission‘ and ‘Swachh Bharat Mission’ (Rural) Projects.

Assuring relentless efforts for time bound implementation of Jal Jeevan Mission projects in Karnataka, Bommai said, of the 97.91 lakh rural households, tapped water has to be provided for 25 lakh households in the initial phase, while the achievement has been about 18 lakh, and the target of 25 lakh would be met within the next few months.

Smart City waterfront project gains momentum

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The much-awaited waterfront development project has gained momentum, with the Mangaluru Smart City Limited (MSCL), the special purpose vehicle (SPV), commencing the work on some of the projects, including a promenade.

The waterfront development project planned under the Smart City Mission, aims at converting approximately a 5km stretch, from Netravati bridge to Bolar in the city, into attractive tourist spots. The MSCL has earmarked a total of Rs 185 crore for the implementation of the waterfront development project.

Through the promenade project, the MSCL has plans to develop the waterfront as an active recreational and commercial hub, with gardens, parks, pedestrian-friendly walkways, bicycle track, boardwalks, nature park and adventure Sports, to promote tourism.

Karnataka will have 1.5-trillion economy, claims Basavaraj Bommai

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Chief ministerBasavaraj Bommai said his dream is to makeKarnatakaa1.5-trillion economyby 2024 and create maximum EMPLOYMENT opportunities for the states youth. I am a man in a hurry. I am ready to work 24 hours to achieve this goal, he said at Karnataka Infinite Opportunities, an interactive session with corporate leaders.

He said many may raise eyebrows about his dream, but he has his math right.
One per cent Growth in Agriculture-notes-for-state-psc-exams”>Agriculture translates into four per cent growth in the manufacturing sector and 10 per cent in Services. So, by achieving good growth in agriculture, we can meet our goal, he explained.

He said ensuring jobs is an immediate task and his government is coming up with a new policy that will encourage companies create more jobs.

Karnataka signs Rs 2.1 lakh crore of investment agreements on Day 1

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TheKarnatakagovernment signed MoUs worth Rs 2.1 lakh crore on the inaugural day of Invest Karnataka, its flagship global investors meet in Bengaluru. Chief minister BasavarajBommaisaid there is a shift in the power balance that puts India at an advantage.

Bommai said the government had approved investments worth Rs 2.8 crore even before the investors meet.

Karan Adani, CEO of Adani & Special Economic Zone, said the group will invest more in the RENEWABLE ENERGY sector in Karnataka. The group has invested over Rs 20,000 crore in the state so far. The company has a cement manufacturing capacity of over seven million tonnes across four Plants in the state.

Investors in Karnataka will get tax incentives for job creation: CM Basavaraj Bommai

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New investors inKarnatakamay get a boost as the plans to encourage them to hire more people with tax incentives.

At present, he said the manufacturing sector gets a tax incentive for Investment but the government wants to extend it for number of jobs they can create. This could compensate for job losses in the state due to Covid-19.

Karnataka is the only state which has not cut salaries of government employees. As far as the private sector is concerned, the pandemic, over the past18 months, has taken away a lot of jobs in the state but people are getting jobs due to the revival. We hope the situation will improve over the next 3-4 months and more jobs will be restored.