Belagavi: Minister for Public Welfare Satish Jarkiholi has alleged that the Central government has hacked the servers of various departments under the Congress government in Karnataka, in an attempt to prevent the successful implementation of schemes.

Addressing reporters on Tuesday, the minister said, “The servers of our government have been hacked like the BJP hacks EVMs. The server of the Women and Child Welfare Department, which is headed by Lakshmi Hebbalkar, too has been hacked by the Central Government. Such illegal activities are delaying the implementation of state government schemes.”

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Jarkiholi, however, added, “In spite of such attempts at prevention, the Congress government will doubtless implement the guarantee schemes promised. If collecting applications online proves difficult, we can always depend on the older, offline methods to get the people’s applications. The Central Government might succeed in delaying the schemes for a maximum of a month. We cannot be held from implementing the schemes longer than that.”

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Bengaluru: A life convict lodged in Ballari Central Prison has successfully cleared the second PUC examination.

Ashok Kumar S, who appeared for the examination under prison escort, secured 481 marks out of 600, registering 80.1 percent. 

Director General of Police (Prisons and Correctional Services), Alok Kumar (IPS), shared the development on his official ‘X’ handle, commending the inmate’s achievement.

In his post, he stated that it was heartening to see a life convict score over 80 percent in the examination, adding that the inmate had appeared from Ballari Central Prison under escort.

He further noted that the achievement reflected that the “walls of the prison have not subdued his hopes for a better future.”

Alok Kumar in his post also shared the result sheet of Ashok. 

The Karnataka School Examination and Assessment Board (KSEAB) declared the second PUC results for 2026 on April 9.

A total of 6,32,200 students appeared for the examination across all streams, of whom 5,46,698 passed, recording an overall pass percentage of 86.48 per cent.