Ruling out any move to support the demand for a seperate state of Kodagu, Karnataka Chief Minister B S Yeddyurappa asserted that Kodagu was an integral part of the State and would remain as it is.

He said that his government would oppose any move to seperate Kodagu from the State and this has been consulted with the Center also. There has been a demand for a seperate Kodava state which is mainly attributed to the uniqueness of culture in this region. 
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Nandan Nilekani, will resign as co-chairman and board member of Infosys Technologies Ltd, who has been assigned the cabinet rank as chairman of the Unique Identification Authority of India.

He will lead the government's ambitious project to implement the Unique Identification Scheme which has been earmarked Rs 100 crore in the interim budget of 2009-10.

The project is aimed with providing a unique identification number for all the citizens of the country, similar to the social security number in the US. To start with this will be issued to all voters in the present electoral roll.
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Chief Minister B S Yeddyurappa has inducted  V Sommana to the Karnataka Cabinet with the latter sworn in as minister on Thursday making the tally of members in the cabinet to 34.

Mr Somanna is designated with the portfolio of Housing and Muzrai which was earlier handled by S N Krishnaiah Shetty. He will assume office from Friday. The 4 time MLA  joined BJP during th recent LS elections after quitting Congress.
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The Minister of State for Railways K H Muniyappa from Karnataka has been designated with the task of handling railways security and safety.

Besides this the Minister will also handle the rail development covering states like Gujarat, Andhra Pradesh, Rajasthan, Himachal Pradesh, Haryana and Madhya Pradesh.

Railways Minister Mamta Banerjee has also designated him with the responsibilty of matters related to railways in Karnataka. The coordination of roles among the deputees comes with the Prime Minister directing Union Ministers to assign equal distribution of work to all ministers concerned. 
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Karnataka tourism minister and Brahmani Steel Industries chief Gali Janardhan Reddy has offered a a diamond studded gold crown worth Rs 45 crore to Lord Venketeshwara at the popular pilgrim temple at Tirupati.

The crown weighs 30kg is an offering to the Lord presented by the Minister on his bithday. The temple authorities has informed that the crown will adorn the diety of Lord Venketeshwara.
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The Karnataka Common Entrance Test(CET) counselling session for medical seats has begun on Thursday. The first session will cover medical ranks from 1 to 1900 that will include medical and dental seats. There are about 1094 medical seats and 788 seats in the dental stream open for candidates under the general merit and reserved category.

This year the Gulbarga and Hubli centers are also holding conselling sessions which will be enabled by video conferencing. The eligible candidates can claim seats for the government and private unaided and professional colleges across the State based on the rank and the quota availabilty.

The seat selection for ayurveda, homeopathy, yoga and naturopathy will be held on June 15,16. The engineering counselling will be held from June 18-July 16th.
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Maytas Infra Limited will soon begin the construction work for setting up the Greenfield airports in Karnataka. 

This includes the proposed greenfield airport projects at Gulbarga and Shimoga in the State which is finally been approved by the Maytas Board.

Apart from these projects, the Board is also working on plans  for Hyderabad Metro and Machilipatnam port projects.
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The much delayed helicopter training academy, in Bangalore is finally now expected to become operational by next year.

The Helicopter Academy to Train by Simulation of Flying (HATSOFF)which is a joint venture of the HAL and Canada based CAE is being set up to train pilots using Simulation and modelling techniques.

The new Center when fully functional is expecetd to provide training and maintenance service to 400 pilots including civilian and military pilots.--MP