Karnataka

Chamarajnagar, Oct 8: Chief minister Siddaramaiah was a star at Monday's function where he not only scored some brownie points over his predecessors and rivals by visiting this allegedly jinxed town, he even tried to convince people that one should not be carried away by superstitions and orthodox traditions. Gathered crowd went into a thunderous applause and cheered him whenever he claimed that

Mangalore, Oct 8: In yet another case of moral police attack, two persons have been arrested on Monday evening for attacking a youth in Valencia in the city. The arrested are Naveen Salian and Anil, both residents of Sootarpet in the city. The youth said that he was attacked by two men for talking to a girl belonging to other community who is his classmate. He said two men who came by bike began

New Delhi, Oct 8: Ten autonomous colleges in Karnataka, including Mangalore-based St Aloysius College, Sri Dharmasthala Manjunatheshwara College, Roshni School of Social Work are among 45 institutions which will soon get greater autonomy and the power to award degrees. This was decided by the Human Resource Development (HRD) Ministry here at a meeting with principals of select autonomous colleges

Mangalore, Oct 8: Team Mangalore, city based hobby group of kite flyers has been officially invited to the Hong Kong International Kite Festival to be held on October 13 and 14, 2013 at Waterfront Park, Cyberfort, Hong Kong. This Kite Festival is being organised for the First time in Hong Kong organised by Hong Kong Youth Arts Foundation and Southern District Council of Hong Kong. According to a

Mangalore, Oct 8: Four persons were critically injured as a tipper carrying backhoe loader flipped on road at Pilinja of Goltamajalu Village in Bantwal. The injured are Vijay (25), Karinur Davangere, Ummar Faruk (20), Shanthinagar Puttur, Naushad (19) and Devraja (25), all are residents of Arakalgudu Hassan. They were heading towards Uppianangady carrying Backhoe loader on tipper to after

Mangalore, Oct 7: The multi-disciplinary research facility at the Yenepoya Research Centre has been upgraded with state-of-the-art facilities and will be inaugurated on Wednesday, along with the launch of electronic learning for teaching learning process at Yenepoya University, informed registrar of the university Dr C V Raghuveer. Speaking at a press conference here on Monday, he said that the

Bantwal, Oct 7: Condemning the offensive remarks made against the medical community during the protest held in connection with the death of vice-president of Sarapady gram panchayat Shakuntala, all private medical facilities were suspended in Bantwal taluk as per the call given by Indian Medical Association. As a result, patients had to suffer and face inconvenience due to this symbolic bundh by

Mangalore, Oct 7: A mandir of Shirdi Sai Baba will be established at Shree Gokarnatheshwara temple at Kudroli on Thursday, the sixth day of Navarathri, and a statue of Sai baba will be installed in the mandir on the same day, informed former Union Minister and managing trustee of the temple B Janardhan Poojary at a press conference here on Monday. He said that the constructed of the mandir had

Mangalore, Oct 7: Children and senior citizens came out in large numbers to take part in the Celebration Cycle Ride, 2013 here on Sunday. They took to pedalling from Kudroli temple to Canara Boy High School at 7 a.m. MLA J R.Lobo inaugurated the Celebration Cycle Ride, 2013 organized by Medikit , Kanchana Hyundai and Rao Associates, Mangalore. The objective of organizing such an event is to

Mangalore, Oct 6: For the seventh year in Mangalore,'Nammavaru', an association of Brahmin families hailing from old Mysore region, organised an expo of dolls depicting various traditions such as Dasara celebrations and festivities in Mysore, on the occasion of Navaratri festival. The nine-day expo was inaugurated at Sharavu Mahaganapathi temple auditorium here on Sunday bymanaging trustee of the