Karnataka

Mangalore, March 5: Legal services across Karnataka including in the coastal city of Mangalore were affected on Monday as lawyers responded positively to the boycott call given by the Advocates Association of Bangalore. The call for boycott of courts across state was given to protest alleged “police excesses” against some of its members at the civil court complex in Bangalore last week. An

Mangalore, March 5: Veera Yodha Yadav Friends Trust will celebrate the decennial celebrations on March 11 at Ammunje here, by laying the foundation for “Amarashree”, a building in tribute to the brave soldier who laid down his life in the service of the nation, informed Praveen Chowta, secretary, and Ashok Kumar Kolambekodi, president, here on Monday. The Trust was formed in 2002 in memory of

Mangalore, March 5: Communist Party of India (Marxist) workers under the banner Dalitha Hakkugala Samiti staged a one-day dharna in front of the Deputy Commissioner's office on Monday. They demanded allocation of funds in the budget for Dalits in proportion to their population. Speaking on the occasion CPI (M) Dakshina Kannada district secretary B. Madhava blasted at the government for failing to

Mangalore, March 5: Members of the Jana Hitharakshana Samithi, Malemar, staged a protest in front of Mangalore City Corporation (MCC) on Monday, March 5 demanding immediate repair of the road from Chowki highway to Konchadi. The protestors, who belong to the 17th and 23rd Wards of the Corporation, alleged that in spite of repeated requests and appeals, the concerned authorities were turning a deaf

Mangalore, March 5: A felicitation function for the retired police officer G.A. Bava has been organised on Wednesday at Town Hall, informed activist U H Umar at a press meet here on Monday. He said a short film based on the life of G A Bava, who retired as Assistant Commissioner of Police (ACP), titled “Bava and Baduku” would also be released on the occasion by Mangalore City Police Commissioner

Mangalore, March 5: Physically-challenged persons from across the district on Monday staged a protest in front of deputy commissioner's office here demanding the state government rectify the irregularities in the distribution of pension to physically-challenged persons. The protest was led by Dakshina Kannada District Handicapped Association and Dakshina Kannada District Handicapped Federation

Mangalore, March 5: In a first-of-its-kind operation in the Dakshina Kannada district, a tumour was removed from the heart of a youth through surgery by doctors from the Omega Hospital. A team of doctors performed this rare heart surgery by removing the tumour measuring six centimetres and restored the normal functioning of the heart. A 32-year-old male patient (name not revealed), came to Dr K

Dubai, March 5: Six Indians including five Keralites and one Tamil were burnt alive on Sunday in a horrific head-on collision between two trucks near Mamur town in the north-west of Muscat in Oman. Six Indians were killed and two Omanis seriously injured when two pickup trucks collided and one carrying six workers caught fire this evening, local media quoted a policeman as saying. Four of the six

Mangalore, March 5: Raising concern over the arrest of Vittal Malekudiya, a journalism post graduate student from Mangalore University, by the Anti Naxal Force sleuths on the charges of being naxal sympathiser, Belthangady taluk Dalita Hakkugala Horata Samiti Secretary Eshwari Padmunja claimed that the boy was innocent and requested the Superintendent of Police to release him. At the Scheduled

Mangalore, March 5: Sunil Cyprian D'Souza has been awarded PhD under the guidance of Dr. A. H. Sequeira, former registrar and Professor in the Dept. of Humanities, Social Sciences and Management. He obtained his doctoral degree in healthcare management for his thesis “Service Quality and Performance in Healthcare Organizations” on February, 25 2012 from the Premier Institute, National Institute of