Karnataka

Mangalore, August 28: A two day Block level Rural Paika Sports meet and Mangalore Taluk level Dasara sports meet were inaugurated at Mangala Stadium here on Tuesday. Mangalore MLA U T Khader inaugurated the meet which was organized under the joint auspices of Department of Youth Affairs and Sports, Karnataka Sports Authority, and Mangalore taluk panchayat. Speaking on the occasion he said that

Karwar, September 6: A 50-year old mentally challenged forest guard in Nujanahenjalu forest area of Bhatkal taluk on Tuesday chopped off his own private part. Kumta based Pramod Shankar Patgar, who was on leave for more than one month due to psychological imbalance, straightly went to the forest in the morning and took this bizarre step of self-neutralization. When the local farmers rushed to help

Mangalore, September 6: 19-old Shloka Shetty, a second-year B Com student of Sri Ramakrishna College, Bunts Hostel Circle apparently attempted to commit suicide on Tuesday afternoon after being “harassed” by the principal. The girl was rushed to a private hospital in the city after she consumed phenyl at the toilet on the premises of the college. The Uppala based Shloka who was staying in a PG

Mangalore, Sep 6: A group of miscreants allegedly instigated by the President of the Katipalla Block-II mosque, ransacked the house of a Kannada writer and made away with cash and gold ornaments. Abdul Jabbar Katipalla, a colunminst with local Kannada newspapers, said that a group of around 50 people surrounded his house on Monday night, while six among them entered into the house by breaking open

Mangalore, September 7: Members of the Movement for Enforcement of Constitutional Rights and Values demanded here on Tuesday that the acquisition of land in villages in Bantwal taluk by the Karnataka Industrial Areas Development Board be stopped immediately. Ahinda working president and member of the movement Lolaksha told presspersons here that the KIADB had decided to acquire about 200 acres of

Mangalore, September 6: Three youths from Dakshina Kannada district are languishing in a Jeddah jail for the past seven years, according to reports that have come to light recently. The three youths in the age group of 33 and 34 are spending days behind the bars after being slapped with fines by a local court in Jeddah. The trio have not been able to pay up due to their economic conditions and

Mangalore, September 6: The ambitious 37.47 km port road connectivity project between Surathkal and BC Road will be completed by the end of this year, nearly six years after the project commenced. Though the sanctioned cost of the project was Rs.196.50 crore, the revised estimate has pegged the cost at Rs 340 crore, according to a reply given by the minister of state in the ministry of road

Udupi, September 5: The last three year period of BJP rule in the state was the golden era for teachers as the Government implemented many of the teacher friendly and education friendly programmes, said Higher Education and Udupi District in-charge minister Dr VS Acharya. He was speaking after inaugurating the Teachers' Day celebration, organised by the District Administration, in association with

Udupi, September 5: Teachers day turned turned tragic to four lecturers of SVS PU College Katapady and another lecturer from Viveka PU College, Kota, as they were severely injured in a head on collusion between a car and a Mangalore bound express bus, on the National Highwat, at Udyavara here on Monday morning. The injured are Sociology lecturer Jadabharatha Sharma, Hindi lecturer Dilip Kumar

Mangalore, September 5: With black ribbons on their hand, teachers of Mangalore taluk showed their dismay concerning various decisions of the government at the Mangalore taluk-level Teachers Day celebrations held at AB Shetty Hall on Monday. Expressing their dissatisfaction, a memorandum was submitted to the District-in-Charge Minister which had various demands such as discontinuing the 10-day