Karnataka

Mangalore, May 11: The weeklong leadership training for the teenagers mainly for high school children was concluded at Spandana Trust, Jeppu, here, on Wednesday. As many as 332 children irrespective of caste and creed participated in the undergone training in the camp for seven days. Leadership qualities, leadership in youth and various types of leadership, effect of HIV/Aids in youth, rights of

Mangalore, May 10: Two persons, who allegedly tried to commit suicide, were saved from drowning in two separate incidents by a lifeguard at Someshwar Beach, near here, on Thursday. The survivors have been identified as Sanchala (35), wife of Santosh from Permannur, and Suresh (45), from Bettampady, Uchila. According to Yathish Baikampady, Chief Executive Officer of Panambur Beach Tourism

Mangalore, May 10: A short-circuit in the air conditioner caused a blast in its compressor resulting in a major fire tragedy in a house at Vas Lane here on Wednesday evening. The old fashioned wooden ceiling house belonged to Kunnhi Ahmed Koya, proprietor of Western India Plywoods Ltd. Sources closed to the owner said that the incident occurred around 5:30 pm, when Mr Koya's wife Rafiya Koya was

Mangalore, May 10: Indiana Hospital and Heart Institute, a newly builty specialty hospital of global standards in the city will be inaugurated by chief minister D V Sadananda Gowda on Saturday, May 12. Announcing this at a press meet here on Thursday, Dr Yusuf Kumble, Managing Director of hospital, said union minister for corporate affairs M Veerappa Moily would preside over the ceremony. He said

Bangalore, May 10: Getting online appointments for passport applications just got easier as more slots are finally open at the Passport Seva Kendras for regular applications either through normal or tatkal process. January this year, the Regional Passport Office (RPO) had started booking about 350 slots per day for Haj pilgrims due to a new rule that says travellers need to possess a passport to

Mangalore, May 10: Members of Christian community in Dakshina Kannada, who have borrowed money from public sector banks to build houses, will get an interest waiver upto Rs 1 lakh under the state government's Christian Development Scheme. Interest accumulated after 2007 will be paid under the scheme to the bank directly through Karnataka Minorities Development Corporation (KMDC) Limited. KMDC

Harish Kumar, a resident of Morgan's Gate, Ashwin, a resident of Kudroli, and Vinod Raj, a resident of Vamanjoor have bagged a total of eight medals in the men's category. In the women's category Amita Poojary and Deepa Kulal, both graduation students in a private college in Mangalore and Neha H of SDM College, Ujire, have won a total of 11 medals. The huge crowd gathered at the Mangalore Central

Mangalore, May 10: Close on the heels of the free-for-all fist fight within the barracks of the district jail, nine under trials identified as 'trouble mongers' were shifted to central jails in Dharwad and Bellary by the department of prisons. As per the direction of deputy inspector general of police (Prisons) VS Raju six of them were sent to Dharwad central jail and the rest to Bellary jail. The

Udupi, May 10: A possible terror attack was foiled on Wednesday with the recovery of huge quantity of explosives and detonators from a car near Brahmavar in Udupi district. The Brahmavar police seized explosives from Ganesh Prasad, a resident of Shiriyar village, at Jambur in Yedthady village coming under the limits of Brahmavar police station. It is learnt that Ganesh Prasad was an activist of a

Mangalore, May 10: The national level conference on Data Science and Business Analytics was held at AIMIT campus of St Aloysius College on Wednesday. Denzil Lobo S.J., Director, AIMIT in his inaugural speech spoke about the processing power of our brain and said, “the most sophisticated computers even today cannot compare with the working of brain of an ant in its ability to process and store