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After dragging its feet for several years on opening access in agricultural produce MARKETING to the private sector, Karnataka has finally come out with a legislation on adopting the Centre's model Act of 2003 for development and reformation in regulation of marketing of agricultural produce.

While Baahubali, released in four languages, Tamil, Telugu, Hindi and Malayalam on Friday, most Kannadigas were deprived of watching the epic movie in their mother tongue, leading to #Removedubbingban doing the rounds on Twitter. The issue of ban on dubbing is one that has plagued the Kannada film industry, more popularly known as Sandalwood, for long. In January 2014, many from Sandalwood, from spot boys, technicians to superstars like Shivraj Kumar and Ganesh held a massive rally in the capital against dubbing.

1. Bangalore , is the capital of the Indian state of Karnataka. Located on the Deccan Plateau in thesouth-eastern part of Karnataka, Bangalore is Indias third most populous city and fifth-mostpopulous urban agglomeration. Bangalore is well known as a hub for Indias information technologysector. It is among the top 10 preferred entrepreneurial locations in the world.2.

Bangalore Fashion Week 12th Edition – Spring Summer 2015 is a Global Fashion Event with 10 Editions at Bangalore 1 Edition at Bangkok and Forthcoming Editions in Dubai and London.
Bangalore Fashion Week (BFW) has been conceived and created with a vision to Showcase Indian Fashion Industry to The Global Fashion World. The objective of BFW will be to create business relationships and to facilitate a dialogue between designers and Trade buyers.
The 12th Edition is Scheduled between the 22nd & 25th January 2015.

The tech-savy state of Karnataka will incubate about 20,000 startups by 2020 to create six lakh direct and 12 lakh indirect jobs, Chief Minister Siddaramaiah said.
“We are setting up a start-up cell as a one-stop-shop to help young entrepreneurs float start-ups and guide them in launching their ventures as they will have little knowledge of corporate affairs,” Siddaramaiah said, flagging off the 18th edition of Bangalore ITE.biz 2015.

To start with, when I think about propagating carnatic music, modern trends have been a boon. From the age-old guru-sishya gurukula teaching, Carnatic music has really adapted itself to modern technology. Today we have e-mail, Internet, audio and video cassettes, CDs and many more bridging the gap between the tutor and the one getting taught.