Karnataka

Mangalore, August 7: Edmond Fernandes and Andrew Lourdunathan, the two MBBS students of Father Muller Medical College, Mangalore, have been nominated to represent the Indian Delegation at the 61st General Assembly of the International Federation of Medical students Association ( IFMSA) at The Renaissance Convention Centre in Mumbai. This assembly is a world congregation of more than 1000 medicos

Udupi, August 7: The Jamia Masjid at Udupi which was previously in a state of disintegration has been renovated and is all set for inauguration. The 18,000 sq. feet structure was built at a cost of rupees 3 crores. Located near city bus stand, the renovated building consists of three floors which can facilitate around 3,000 people to offer Namaz at a time. The ground floor has an expanse of 5,200

Mangalore, August 7: Mangalore Airport is among four others to which the Air India Express (AIE) would operate additional international flights during the upcoming festival season. The airline decided to introduce over 50 flights in the Middle East sector to meet the rush of passengers during Eid-ul-Fitr and Onam. Most services -to Dubai, Abu Dhabi, Sharjah, Doha and Dammam- would be from

Mangalore, August 7: Karnataka Beary Sahitya Academy and Sadbhavana, Kundapur, will be jointly organising a 'Ramadan Literary Evening and Multi-lingual Poets Meet' on August 12 at 4.00 p.m. at Namma Bhoomi Study Center at Hattiyangadi in Kundapur taluk. Academy Registrar Umarabba stated in a press release that Udupi-Chikmagalur MP K. Jayaprakash Hegde would inaugurate the programme. Kirimanjeshwar

Mangalore, August 7: Busting a prostitution racket, police have nabbed six persons allegedly engaged in flesh trading at an apartment in the city on Monday evening. Interestingly, all of the arrested including men and women are said to be local leaders and activists of Bharatiya Janata Party. Two among the arrested identified as Sandeep Shetty (35) and Dooraiah (35), were active leaders of BJP in

Mangalore, August 7: Mangalore Airport has banned the entry of visitors to the terminal building or visitors' gallery from August 5 to 20. Airport Director M.R. Vasudeva Rao said that stringent excise checking and screening measures have been employed during the duration of the temporary ban. It is a regular enforcement during the Independence Day in all the airports across the country. This

Mangalore, August 7: Heavy rains continued to lash most parts of twin districts of Dakshina Kannada and Udupi Tuesday morning. On Monday Puttur, Belthangady Bantwal and Sullia taluks bore the brunt of incessant rains. The Bangalore based Karnataka State Natural Disaster Monitoring Centre issued 12 high-rainfall alerts from 6am up to 10pm. The highest amount of 128.5mm rainfall has been recorded at

Mangalore, August 7: Two more traditional fishing boats capsized at mouth of estuary off the South Wharf here, due to the high-rising waves and powerful storm on Monday. Fortunately, other fishermen, who caught a glimpse of the accident at sea, rescued all eight fishermen on board the two capsized boats and brought them to the coast. Losses are estimated at over Rs 20 lakh. A fishing boat 'Saniya

Malpe, August 7: Minister for Ports and Muzrai Kota Srinivas Poojary has said that the work on construction of the first phase of a permanent sea wall to prevent sea erosion would be launched at Ullal in Dakshina Kannada district shortly. He was speaking at a function to mark the inauguration of the MLA's Office at Malpe here. Later, he inaugurated the new road divider constructed on the Citizen

Mangalore, August 6: The Mangalore City Committee of Communist Party of India (Marxist) on Monday launched an awareness campaign as a prelude to its massive dharna scheduled to be held on August 27 against the alleged anti-people policies of Mangalore City Corporation. Local leader of CPI (M) Vasanth Achar formally inaugurated the three-day-long 'Jatha' by handing over the party flag to CPI (M)