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• Revive Badanavalu Khadi Centre as model rural industry rooted in Gandhian principles: Report March 7, 2026
  Report by a group of Gandhians points out that quality of the product needs improvement while the product design too needs attention, but felt that the biggest gap lies in marketing and brand building
• Proposal for ropeway at Mullayyanagiri attracts criticism from environmentalists in Chikkamagaluru March 7, 2026
  They have opposed the proposal stating that any such development will harm the pristine nature and disturb the wildlife
• Karnataka High Court allows engineering college to terminate service of faculty due to closure of course, directs payment of ₹40 lakh to each professor March 7, 2026
  Malnad College of Engineering, Hassan had appealed against a single judge’s direction to continuing their services till they attain superannuation as per AICTE regulations despite winding up the Automobile Engineering Department
• Karnataka High Court upholds CBSE’s decision to debar student for two years from taking class 12 exams for carrying mobile phone inside exam hall March 7, 2026
  The student claimed that he entered the exam hall with a mobile phone inadvertently as he came late to the exam centre
• Karnataka Budget 2026: 182 tanks in Chikkaballapur district to be filled under Hebbala-Nagawara Valley project March 7, 2026
  Additionally, a lift irrigation scheme will fill 59 tanks in Sulibele and Nandagudi hoblis in Hosakote taluk using treated sewage water from the H.N. Valley project at a cost of ₹140 crore
• Karnataka Budget 2026: ₹4,291 crore earmarked to address regional imbalance March 7, 2026
  Experts have previously pointed out that successive governments have highlighted even usual development projects in backward regions, such as Kalyana Karnataka, as special development projects
• Karnataka Budget 2026-27: State Government to ban social media for children under 16 years March 7, 2026
  The decision comes after Australia blocked social media, including TikTok, Alphabet’s YouTube and Meta’s Instagram and Facebook, for teens since last December
• Karnataka Budget 2026–27: Capex slows as committed expenses balloon and revenue takes a hit March 6, 2026
  Karnataka pins hopes on raising its own tax revenue and increasing borrowing to push capital expenditure
• Budget reflects State’s continued focus on diverse growth: trade bodies March 6, 2026
  FKCCI welcomes several important initiatives aimed at strengthening the industrial ecosystem and creating new opportunities for investment, innovation, and employment
• Youth, student groups criticise Karnataka Budget over jobs, education funding March 6, 2026
  Student and youth organisations have criticised the State Budget for 2026-27, alleging that it fails to address the pressing issues of unemployment among youth and the declining state of public education