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State's first Cyber lab inaugurated in the city

July 23, 2011

Mangalore, July 23: Karnataka's first state-of-the-art cyber laboratory, a capacity building unit which will help disseminate information on Cyber security, Cyber laws and Cyber forensics and spread awareness of information technologym was inaugurated at 5th floor of Ramabhavan Complex at Kodialbail in the city on Saturday.

Minister for Ecology, Environment, Ports, Fisheries, Inland water transport, Science and Technology and Dakshina Kannada district in-charge Krishna J Palemar inaugurated the laboratory.

Earlier, addressing the media persons, Principal Secretary of Information Technology, Bio-Technology and Science & Technology M N Vidyashankar said the Karnataka State Electronics Development Corporation (KEONICS) with the partnership of Mandamus Info Knowledge Consultants, a private organisation which is providing cyber management services and techno-legal services to government bodies, the Cyber Lab has been set up.

He said Cyber Lab's primary focus is on law enforcement cell, judiciary department, government department, banking sector, academia and netizens.

He also said that according to a survey conducted by Symantec, India has the highest ratio of outgoing spam and junk mail. So far Karnataka, the IT hub of the country, has registered highest number of cyber-crimes. The internet has become extremely unsafe and even dangerous because of the serious threats such as phishing, money laundering, defacement of websites, identity theft, cyber stalking and many more, he added.

He said as many as 65 cases of cyber-crimes had been dealt last year.

He said that Mangalore had been chosen for locating the laboratory as it is the third largest IT hub in Karnataka. Besides, it had a large pool of educated people and it had high literacy rate.

Speaking on the occasion Dr V S Acharya, Minister for Higher Education and IT & BT said that Karnataka was the first state to set up a Cyber Crime Police Station to register and investigate cyber-crimes.

He said that the Cyber lab's function was not only confined to netizens but also for law enforcement and legal security of the country. He said that the cyber security will also attract Multi-National Companies to invest in India.

Mr Palemar said that Sub-Science centre will be opened at 10 places in the state including Mangalore at the cost of Rs 2.60 crore.

He said three regional science centre at Mangalore, Mysore and Dharwad will be come up with the coast of Rs 8.50 crore.

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May 5,2020

Bengaluru, May 5: The Karnataka excise department booked a case against a wine shop owner in this tech city for allegedly selling more liquor than permitted under the law to a buyer on the first day of shops reopening for business after 40-day lockdown on Monday, an official said on Tuesday.

"We have booked a case against licensed shop owner S. Venkatesh for reportedly selling Indian made liquor (IML) and beer to a buyer on Monday more than he is permitted under the Karnataka Excise Act section 36," Bengaluru South Excise Deputy Commissioner A. Giri told media persons.

The alleged sale came to light when the unidentified customer posted in the social media a receipt showing he bought liquor worth Rs 52,841 from Vanilla Spirit Zone in the city''s south-eastern suburb on Monday afternoon.

"Preliminary investigation revealed that 17.4 litres of IML was sold against the permissible limit of 2.3 litres and 35.1 litres of beer against the legal limit of 18.2 litres," Giri said.

Venkatesh, however, told Giri that the buyer paid for the liquor bought by him and seven of his colleagues at the same time from the shop as they entered together.

"We are investigating to ascertain if Venkatesh violated the license conditions by paying for liquor bought by his friends with him at the same time," Giri added.

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July 30,2020

Mandya, July 30: BJP state president Nalin Kumar Kateel on Wednesday said Chief Minister B S Yediyurappa has done a commendable job in tackling the Covid-19 situation and floods and that the question of changing the leadership does not arise.

Karnataka on Wednesday reported 5,503 new cases of Covid-19 and 92 related fatalities, taking the total number of infections to 1,12,504 and the death toll to 2,147.

Speaking to reporters here, Kateel said, "Deputy Chief Minister Laxman Savadi has gone to Delhi to discuss the projects sanctioned to state with the central minister. There is no need to read too much into it."

Replying to a query on graft charges against the BSY government by the Congress, Kateel said, "Congress national president, state unit president are out on bail in graft cases . Why did a Congress leader who calls himself a bande (rock) has approached court seeking stay on CBI probe? Before making any allegations against the government, they should think about 'irregularities' in Indira Canteen and housing schemes," he charged.

Instead of instilling confidence and hope among the people in these testing times, the Congress is unnecessarily creating fear with petty politics, he told reporters in Shravanabelagola, Hassan district.

"The Yediyurappa-led BJP government is working day and night to tackle the Covid-19. Similarly, several non-governmental organisations have joined hands with the government in the fight against the virus. But, the Congress is only creating confusion by issuing baseless statements," Kateel said.

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June 7,2020

Bengaluru, Jun 7: A mobile app and a portal offering technology-driven solutions to manage and mitigate floods in urban areas were launched here on Saturday by Karnataka Revenue Minister R Ashoka.

The mobile app 'Bengaluru Megha Sandesha' was developed to disseminate information on rainfall and flood forecast, location-specific dynamic weather directly to the public. "The in-built features of the app and the information provided for a city is the first of its kind in the country," a press release said. This is a system of providing rainfall, flood forecasts and early warning to the officials of government agencies in the city through SMS to their mobile phones, social media platforms and a dedicated web portal, the release said.

The information provided would help the civic authorities act in advance and manage the floods, it said. The portal 'Varunamitra' is for information on the weather. The information provided is based on real-time data from 100 telemetric rain gauges installed and maintained at various locations across the state, it said. Rainfall forecast is based on the weather research and forecast models developed by the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO), Ahmedabad, the release said.

The information on flood forecast is based on the hydrological model, hydraulic routing and automation of the results. The Karnataka State Natural Disaster Monitoring Centre, along with the Indian Institute of Science (IISc), took up this project on the urban flood model for Bengaluru city. The project was funded by the Central government's department of science and technology, the release added. 

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