Saturday, February 21, 2026

Author: Worldsnap Staff

Bangalore
Worldsnap Staff

Great Indian headcount begins today in Karnataka

The first phase of the 15th national census exercise will kickstart in Karnataka on Thursday. This 45-day exercise will end on June 1, during which officials will knock on your doors to collect data on your family, housing and household amenities.Director of census operations in Karnataka, Anil Kumar, and the state nodal officer for the operations, KS Prabhakar, met mediapersons and said that the massive exercise would take off at 8 am on Thursday at Raj Bhavan, with officials first collec…

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Business
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No funding plan yet for expressways

The ministry of road transport and highways, which has announced mega plans to develop greenfield expressways spanning 18,600 km by 2022, is still groping in the dark on the funding model for projects.As per senior officials from road transport and highways ministry and the National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) nothing has moved forward, "Only preliminary network assessment has been done. No further development has taken place yet," said a senior ministry official, on condit…

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Jaipur
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Commotion rules JMC’s general body meeting

The date 13 again proved to be a blackday for the Jaipur Municipal Corporation. The BJP and Congress councillors hurled comments and abuses at each other in the second general body meeting on Tuesday and mayor Jyoti Khandelwal remained helpless and continued reading her budget speech. On January 13, the JMC witnessed a similar furore and the mayor was forced to flee from her office chamber.On Tuesday, both the Congress and BJP councillors had pre-planned how to ‘behave’ in the JM…

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Pune
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Band threatens to quit Pune Mahanagar Parivahan Mahamandal Limited

Divisional commissioner and acting chairman of the Pune Mahanagar Parivahan Mahamandal Limited (PMPML) Dilip Band has written a letter to the Pune municipal commissioner stating that he was ready to resign from the transport utility.In his letter sent to municipal commissioner Mahesh Zagade on Tuesday, Band stated that he had been making serious efforts to improve the public transport company.He said the Union government had warned the PMPML to purchase buses before March 31, failing whi…

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Business
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SEBI lifts ULIP ban, leaves a catch

The devil lies in the detail. The Securities and Exchange Board of India (Sebi) on Tuesday issued a clarification to itsearlier order that was issued on Friday. The 14 private insurance companies which had been prohibited from raising new money or additional subscription on unit linked insurance plan (Ulips), have now been allowed to do so, for the time being. But insurance companies may not sigh in relief yet, for the last but one line in the order goes thus: "However, with respect…

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