Karnataka

Mangalore, March 4: With the arrest of two youths suspected to be working for fugitive don Vishwanath koraga Shetty, Mangalore police have foiled a kidnap bid on a city based entrepreneur. The arrested have been identified as Manoj Shetty (34) of Alake and Deepak G Rao (27) of Police Lane. Sources said, the accused hatched a plan to kidnap one Jayson Nazareth of Permude Cross who had returned from

Mangalore, March 4: A protest against saffronisation of school text books by the state government was held by the Mangalore unit of Students Islamic Organization (SIO) of India in the city on Saturday. Members of the Organization raised slogans against the state government which has decided to implement communal contents in social studies text books of classes 5 and 8 from the coming academic year

Mangalore, March 3: “Poetry is a game of words and thoughts. A poem in head is like a pressure building up in a cooker. The thoughts come together and form into beautiful words,” opined Konkani Sahitya Akademi Award winner (2011) Melwyn Rodrigues at the felicitation programme organised for him by 17 Konkani organisations.For thoughts to awaken, there should be disturbance. These disturbances makes

Mangalore, March 4: As seven candidates withdrew their nomination papers on Saturday, the number of candidates left in fray for the byelection to the Udupi-Chikmagalur Lok Sabha constitutency to be held on March 18 has reduced to 14. According to an official press release, the contesting candidates are: K. Jayaprakash Hegde (Congress), S.L. Bhoje Gowda (Janata Dal–Secular), V. Sunil Kumar

Mangalore, March 3: In a shocking development, a Mangalore University student and his father were arrested by sleuths of Anti-Naxal Force on charges of having links with Naxalites. Vittala, a first year student of Mass Communication and Journalism and his father Linganna were taken to Venur Police Station on Saturday for inquiry after detaining them at their home at Kuthlur near Naravi in

Mangalore, March 3: By stating that grant of reservation for Muslims will result in bloodshed, BJP State President K S Eshwarappa is trying to divide people on communal lines in order to gain mileage in Udupi-Chikmagalur by-polls, alleged Mr. C Ahmed Jamal, Secretary, DK District Committee, Indian Muslim League. He was addressing media persons at the Press Club in the city on Friday

Mangalore, March 3: Lions Club International, District 324-D5 along with Sri Ramakrishna College, Bunts Hostel conducted 'Personality Development and Today's Youth', an inter-collegiate level two-day seminar on Friday and Sunday. The seminar invited guests to talk on various topics. Lion Naveen Shetty was the convenor of the program. The guest speaker for Saturday was Dr Srinivas Kukkilaya, a well

Mangalore, March 3: People's Union for Civil Liberties (PUCL) has accused Mr. Naveen D'Souza, Corporator, Mangalore City Corporation (MCC), of engaging in corruption and encouraging a city builder to grab public land. Addressing media persons at a press meet on Saturday, Mr. P B D'Sa, President, PUCL and Mr. Frank Miranda, resident of lower Bendur area, accused corporator Naveen D'Souza of forging

Mangalore, March 3: A silent protest walk was organized by Dakshina Kannada Working Journalists' Association from clock tower circle to Deputy Commissioner's office in the city on Saturday against the assault by lawyers on journalists and policemen in Bangalore's City Civil Court premises. Media persons carried black flags and wore black ribbons to express their condemnation of the shameful

Mangalore, March 3: The former Lokayukta N. Santosh Hegde asked the young nursing graduates and diploma holders to uphold professional and moral values and not allow it to go down. Speaking at the graduation ceremony of Nitte Usha Institute of Nursing Sciences here on Friday, Mr. Hegde said society had been losing values and it could not be allowed to go down further. “See the incident that