New Year’s gift: Karnataka govt promotes 36 IPS officers

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January 1, 2018

Bengaluru, Jan 1: It is achche din for 36 IPS rank officers with the state government promoting them on the New Year's Eve. While 20 promoted IPS officers have been given new postings, 11 were transferred, in what is seen as a major reshuffle in the police department.

The government promoted four 1993-batch Inspector General of Police (IGP) rank officers to Additional Director General of Police (ADGP) rank. They include M.A. Saleem, now posted as ADGP, Crimes and Technical Services, Bengaluru with an additional charge of ADGP and Commissioner for Traffic and Road Safety, Bengaluru

K.S.R. Charan Reddy has been posted ADGP, Training, Bengaluru. He was IGP for Karnataka State Reserve Police, Bengaluru.

Additional Commissioner of Police Bengaluru (West Zone) Malini Krishnamoorthy has been posted as ADGP, Communication, Logistic and Modernisation, Bengaluru as Alok Mohan who was holding this charge earlier is posted as the ADGP, Anti-Corruption Bureau, Bengaluru.

Dr K. Ramachandra Rao has been posted as ADGP, Grievances & Human Rights, Bengaluru with an additional charge of ADGP, Directorate of Civil Rights Enforcement, Bengaluru. He was IGP, Northern Range, Belagavi.

IGP, Intelligence, Bijay Kumar Singh will take over as the Additional Commissioner of Police, Bengaluru, (West Zone). He will also be given the additional charge of the post of IGP, Special Investigation Team, which is currently probing the murder of noted journalist and activist Gauri Lankesh.

The IPS officer D Roopa who made headlines in 2017 by reporting irregularities in the Parappana Agrahara Central Prison when she was the DIG Prisons also received a promotion. She has been promoted to IGP rank and transferred and posted as IGP & Additional Commandant General, Home Guards & Ex-Officio Additional Director, Civil Defence, Bengaluru.

Similarly, Labhu Ram, Joint Director, Intelligence Bureau, Bengaluru, Devajyoti Ray and N Shivaprasad is also promoted to IGP rank and the latter has been posted as IGP, Ballari Range. 

In addition, as many as six SPs received promoted to the rank of DIG, including Sandeep Patil, SP, Intelligence, Bengaluru who now has been posted as DIG, Karnataka State Reserve Police, Bengaluru.

Vijayapura SP Kuldeep Kumar Jain will replace him as SP of Intelligence, Bengaluru.

Other promoted officers include: Dr P.S. Harsha, posted as Commissioner, Department of Information and Public Relation, Bengaluru; Vikash Kumar, posted as Commissioner, Social Welfare Department, Bengaluru; Dr T.D. Pawar, posted as DIGP, Anti-Corruption Bureau, Bengaluru; Annigere Manjunath, posted as DIGP, Directorate if Civil Rights Enforcement, Bengaluru; Ravi Kumar Naik, posted as DIGP, Intelligence; Abhishek Goyal (will hold current post DCP Traffic (East), Bengaluru; Kaushlendra Kumar, Joint Deputy Director, New Delhi; Raman Gupta, Joint Director of Enforcement, Bengaluru; Dr B.R. Ravikanthe Gowda, SP, Belagavi; R Dileep; SN Siddaramappa, SP Internal Security Division, Bengaluru; R Ramesh, posted as Commandant, Home Guards & Civil Defence Academy, Bengaluru; Dr S.D. Sharanappa, DCP (South), Bengaluru; M.N. Anucheth, DCP (West), Bengaluru; Shantanu Sinha, SP, National Investigation Agency, New Delhi; Borase Bhushan, posted as SP, Anti-Corruption Bureau, Bengaluru; Abhinav Khare, SP Shivamogga; B Ramesh, 

SP Ramanagara; Iada Martin Marbaniang, SP Yadgir; Ravi D Channannavar, SP Mysuru; Vartika Katiyar, posted as DCP, City Armed Police, City Armed Reserve, Headquarters, Bengaluru; Kona Vamsi Krishna, posted as Deputy Director, Karnataka Police Academy, Mysuru; Laxmi Nimbargi, posted as SP Udupi; Shiva Prakash Devaraju, posted as Assistant IGP, General, Headquarters, Bengaluru; BM Laxmi Prasad, posted as SP Vijayapura; Dr. Arun K, posted as SP, SIT, Harish Pandey, posted as Deputy Commandant, General, Home Guards, Ex-Officio Deputy Director, Civil Defence, Bengaluru and MS Mohammad Sujeetha, posted as SP, SIT.

Transferred officers are S Murugan - IGP, North Eastern Range, Kalburagi; K.V. Sharath Chandra - IGP, Eastern Range, Davangere; Soumesh Mukherjee - IGP, SIT; Nisha James - Commandant, India Reserve Battalion, Munirabad and Sanjeev M Patil - DCP, Administration, Bengaluru.

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April 19,2020

Bengaluru, Apr 19: With six new cases of COVID-19 in the last 24 hours, Karnataka's total count of coronavirus patients has surged to 390, said the State's Health Department on Sunday.

"Six new cases have been confirmed for COVID-19 in the State from 5 pm yesterday till 5 pm today. Cumulatively, 390 COVID-19 positive cases have been confirmed in the state," said the Health Department in a statement.

The total coronavirus cases in the State include 16 deaths and 111 discharges.

Deputy Chief Minister CN Ashwath Narayan said that "only essential and critical number of" employees of the Information Technology (IT) companies will be allowed to work from offices from April 20 onwards in Bengaluru, while others will have to continue working from home.

According to the latest update by the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, the total number of positive cases in India has mounted to 16,116 and 519 deaths have been reported till now.

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April 25,2020

Bengaluru, Apr 25: Former Karnataka Health minister and senior Congress leader Dr H C Mahadevappa on Saturday urged the state government to chalk out a comprehensive plan to conduct tests among the vulnerable sections in the society to impede the spread of the dreaded COVID-19 pandemic in the state.

Speaking to media persons, Dr Mahadevappa, felt that only restricting people to remain indoors will not suffice to tackle the spread of the contagious disease he said that "There needs to step up testing the people especially belonging to the vulnerable sections of the society".

Maintaining that the COVID-19 disease, which has progressed itself as a pandemic, across the globe, former Health Minister said that "there is also a need to fight the menace with multiple dimension, as it has potential to cause damage not only the social life of the people but also their livelihood".

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January 28,2020

Bandipur, Jan 28: British adventurer Bear Grylls and superstar Rajinikanth arrived at the Bandipur Tiger Reserve and National Park in Karnataka on Tuesday for shooting a special episode of the show 'Man vs Wild'.

The actor arrived at the location dressed in comfortable sporty clothes. Donning a dark blue jacket and grey track pants, Rajinikanth was also carrying a cross-body sling bag.

Videos and photographs of Rajinikanth arriving at a helipad were shared widely on social media.

Reports say that an agreement was signed between the Karnataka Forest Department represented by the Field Director of Bandipur and Banijay Group, Seventaurus Entertainment Studio Private Ltd, Mumbai for shooting of the documentary in December 2019. The team was also allowed to do a recce from December 27th to 29th as per the agreement, a report said.

The shooting has been permitted for six hours. "Permission for the shooting has been given for Sultan Batteri highway and ranges of Mulleholle, Maddur and Kalkere ranges. They will be shooting in non-tourist zones. If permission was given for the shooting of Wild Karnataka, then this can also be permitted. Also, no tourist or regular forest patrolling activities will be affected. The shooting will be done under special forest protection and no one will be aware of the locations," a forest official was quoted as saying in another news report.

Earlier in 2019, Grylls shot an episode of the show with Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

Grylls is also back with the latest edition of his National Geographic show ‘Running Wild With Bear Grylls’, where actors such as Channing Tatum, Brie Larson, Joel McHale, Cara Delevingne, Rob Riggle, Armie Hammer and Dave Bautista take on adventurous challenges in remote wilderness.

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