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Karnataka: Free power for SC/ST families nearly doubled
- In a move to secure another major vote bank, the Karnataka government on Friday announced that all scheduled caste and scheduled tribe (SC/ST) families will be given around 75 units of free power, raising the bar from the 40 units it was before.

CM Bommai: will decide on attending World Economic Forum's annual meet
- Karnataka CM Bommai on Saturday said he will soon take a call on his visit to Swiss ski resort town of Davos, to take part in World Economic Forum's Annual Meeting.

Karnataka Cong reunites after DKS, Patil call 'truce'
- The Karnataka Congress President D K Shivakumar and the party's campaign committee chief M B Patil seemed to have called for a truce after the former's statement raised heckles, however there seems to be no end to the public spat between their supporters.

Kumaraswamy kicks off JDS poll campaign saying ‘I will rise like the phoenix’
- Claiming to be the "phoenix" that rises from the ashes like his father former PM Deve Gowda had referred to, JD(S) leader H D Kumaraswamy on Friday kick-started his party's poll campaign for 2023 Karnataka assembly polls.

Will BBMP polls be further delayed? Bommai government weighs options
Karnataka CM Basavaraj Bommai said the government is considering moving the apex court, seeking time to fix reservations for OBCs or for an opportunity to go by the reservation that existed until now amid the SC's order to conduct local body polls within two weeks' time.
