Karnataka

Bangalore, Sep 6: The Karnataka Police will soon be modernised for quick response to any eventuality and enhanced vigilance against terror threats, Home Minister K.J. George said Thursday. "A mega city policing plan will soon be implemented under the modernisation of state police force scheme of the union home ministry to secure people from any untoward incident and maintain heightened vigil

Mangalore, Sep 6: Over 50 retired teachers were felicitated at a teachers' day celebration programme organised by Dakshina Kannada Zilla Panchayat, Department of Public Instruction, Mangalore North Block Education Office, Teachers' Day committee and Teachers' Welfare Fund, Bangalore at Town Hall here on Thursday. Delivering the inaugural address on the occasion of 126th birth anniversary of

Bantwal, Sep 5: Minister of Health and Family Welfare U T Khader said that in order to slacken the transfer policy of teachers, he would speak to the Chief Minister Siddaramaiah and Minister for Higher Education R V Deshpande. Speaking at 'Guruvandana' programme organised by Dakshina Kannada district and Bantwal taluk teachers' day celebration committees in Bantwal on Thursday, he said that the

Mangalore, Sep 5: Having contemplated in depth on the issue of transfer of teachers, the government will undertake shortly an important decision to chalk out a simplistic scheme, said Minister for Health and Family Welfare U T Khader. Delivering the inaugural address at 'Guruvandana', a teachers' day celebration programme in honour of Dr Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan, organised by Dakshina Kannada

Mangalore, Sep 5: Beneficiaries of 57 families chosen under Rashtriya Kutumba Sahayadana Yojan received cheques of Rs 10,000 each in a formal function held at NGO Hall, Mangalore on Thursday. Total of Rs 5.7 lakh was distributed for families of Mangalore 'A' and Mangalore 'B' hoblis by MLA, Mangalore North, J R Lobo. Mr Lobo speaking at the occasion said that the initiative and enthusiasm of the

Gandhinagar, Sep 5: Even as BJP dithers on declaring him as the party's prime ministerial candidate, Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi today said he does not dream of occupying the top post and would respect the people's mandate for serving the state till 2017. "I never see such dreams (of becoming PM), nor am I going to see such dreams. People of Gujarat have given me the mandate to serve them

Mangalore, Sep 5: Hundreds of Hajj pilgrims, who are expected to leave for the holy city of Makkah from Mangalore on later this week, are doing last minute preparation. The registration for Hajj-2013 started at a camp at at a camp at Old Terminal near Kenjaru, Bajpe here on Wednesday.The process of registration launched with Ahmed Bava of Mulihithlu in Bolara getting his name registered for

Mangalore, Sep 4: Dr U T Ifthikar Fareed, Professor and Student Welfare Dean at Dr M V Shetty Memorial Trust Colleges, has been nominated as one of the members to the Syndicate of Rajiv Gandhi University of Health Sciences, Bangalore. The syndicate is the highest decision making body of the university. Multifaceted Dr U T Ifthikar Fareed, MPT (Ph.D.) is President of U T Fareed Foundation

Madikeri/Bangalore, Sep 5: A 73-year-old man died of cardiac arrest after his son was arrested by Bangalore police for allegedly kidnapping and marrying a girl, a few months ago. Police have given the name of dead as Somashekhar, a resident of Mooranadu, near Madikeri. Deviprasad, the son of Somashekhar, met Ramya, a resident of Bangalore, through a social networking site eight months ago and they

Mangalore, Sep 5: A 40-year-old man was hacked to death on Wednesday night at Madyar, Kotekar. The deceased is Neelesh alias Neelu, a resident of Madyar. The incident occurred when he was returning home a gang of six persons stopped his car and assaulted him with daggers, swords and other sharp edged weapons grievously injuring him. He was rushed to the hospital by his friends and later succumbed