Karnataka

Mangalore, July 28: Two girls committed suicide in separate incidents in Dakshina Kannada district on Friday. While one girl was pursuing PUC second year another was pursuing her BBM. In the first incident, which took place on Friday morning, a 17-year-old girl identified as Aishwarya Deepika, a PU student of Shri Dharmasthala Manjunatheshwara College, in Ujire. It is learnt that she hanged

Mangalore, July 28: The south-west monsoon visited parts of the State including the coastal districts and malnad with a vengeance on Friday. A farmer was washed away in flash floods while traffic on the Bangalore-Mangalore national highway was affected for over eight hours due to landslides. With the heavy rains lashing Uppinangady region since Thursday night, the water-level in Gundya river rose

Mangalore, July 28: Acting on a tip off busted a three-member gang from West Bengal including two minors for trying to circulate counterfeit currency notes in the city on Friday and seized 400 currency notes of Rs 500 face value from them. The accused are Niranjan Choudhary (22), Sunil Choudhary (14) and Mannu Choudhary (15), residents of different places in Malda district in West Bengal. Police

Mangalore, July 28: Yenepoya Foundation, Mangalore, has invited applications for its Yenepoya Excellence Awards 2012. A press release issued here stated that the foundation proposed to give academic excellence awards to students who had excelled in SSLC/PU and undergraduate courses in 2011-12. A few awards were common to all students and some were reserved for Muslim students. The awards were

Riyadh/Mangalore, July 27: Saad-bin-Zubair, a Kerala based Haafiz-e-Quran, who died after a car accident in the Eastern Province of Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, was buried at a cemetery in the city of Hafar al-Batin on Thursday. Medical sources said that said that the young expatriate had died of cardiac arrest after Wednesday's road accident, which occurred due to a tyre burst at Hafar al-Batin

Mangalore, July 27: Terming the ongoing communal clashes in North East Indian state of Assam as “unfortunate development”, the Popular Front of India has demanded a quick and effective intervention of the Central Government to solve the issue immediately. “On behalf of PFI, I express deep concern over the unfortunate development in Assam in which dozes of persons were killed and tens of thousands

Mangalore, July 27: As per the direction of the Muzrai Department, poojas for rain were held in all temples in the district falling under the purview of the Department on Friday. Poojas were held in prominent temples of the district including Mangaladevi Temple and Kateel Durgaparameshwari Temple even before the official order of the government reached. “Although the government order reached Durga

New Delhi, July 27: The Supreme Court Friday said that the private tour operators (PTOs), engaged in the travel of Haj pilgrims, could not undertake their enterprise with an eye on profits. "Haj is not for making profits," said the apex court bench of Justice Aftab Alam and Justice Ranjana Prakash Desai in the course of the hearing of a batch of petitions by PTOs, seeking to be registered for the

Mangalore, July 27: Makers of the Tulu movie 'Rampa' have decided to change the title of the film after requests from the family members of Ramappa Poojary, also known as 'Rampa', a popular figure in coastal districts of Dakshina Kannada and Udupi. Addressing media persons at Press Club in Mangalore on Friday, members of Mr. Poojary's family and representatives of the film crew informed that the

Mangalore, July 27: The MBA department of St. Aloysius Institute of Management and Information Technology (AIMIT), St Aloysius College (Autonomous), has organised a three-day faculty development programme on “Research Methods for Non-Statisticians” from July 25 to 27. On July 25, the programme was inaugurated by Rev Fr Sweebert D'Silva SJ, Principal of St. Aloysius College (Autonomous) Mangalore