Pro-Kannada groups are divided over the statewide bandh protesting the assault on a KSRTC driver in Belagavi last month. Many organisations and establishments have extended only moral support.
The Indian monsoon has so far been slightly better than normal, at 101 percent of the long period average (LPA), thanks a strengthening in rainfall during the month of July.
The private weather forecasting firm has reiterated its earlier prediction of this season's monsoon being at 107 percent of the long period average, VP - Meteorology GP Sharma told CNBC-TV18.
Agriculture and allied sector is expected to grow at a faster rate of 3.5 percent in 2013-14 fiscal if the country receives normal monsoon this year, the Prime Minister's economic advisory panel said on Tuesday.
Infosys Technologies expects demand environment to be “normal” for the I-T industry in 2011-12 (April-March), although the company’s earnings per share guidance was well below what the analysts were expecting.