Karnataka

New Delhi, Jul 24: Cooking gas (LPG) will now be available at select petrol pumps in metro cities after the government allowed sale of small 5-kg cylinders. 5-kg LPG cylinders will be available at company-owned-company-operated petrol pumps, which make up for just 3 per cent of over 47,000 petrol pumps in the country. Also, the gas will be available at market price which is double the rate of Rs

Mangalore, July 24: Clinching their third consecutive win of the Indian National Rally Championship (INRC) 2013 in the Rally of Coimbatore, defending champion Amittrajit Ghosh and co-driver Ashwin Naik have made a hat-trick of victories this season. Driving a Mitsubishi Cedia, Amittrajit Ghosh from Kolkata and Ashwin Naik from Mangalore got ahead of the competition and ranked first overall in the

Hyderabad, Jul 24: Applicants will soon be able to apply for passports through their smart phones, a senior official said today. "Applicants can fill details on passport applications through mPassport Seva App. We are working on this and are hopeful it will be launched in next few months," Joint Secretary (Passport Seva Project) and Chief Passport Officer Muktesh Kumar Pardeshi told reporters. The

Mangalore, July 24: The management of Manipal University announced that the enrollment process of members under Manipal Arogya Card scheme for the year 2013 would close on July 31. Speaking at a press conference held here on Tuesday, Dean of Kasturba Medical College, Mangalore, Dr M V Prabhu said that the scheme had been instituted in 2001 as part of its social initiative, to provide quality

Mangalore, Jul 24: Though it was created with the intention of disseminating news about crime in Mangalore city limits regularly to interested patrons, the blog of Mangalore City Police has been irregular in its updates from some time. To provide information on different crimes that have occurred in the district such as murder, robbery, burglary, extortion or rape, the then-Superintendent of

Mangalore, Jul 24: Theatre artist Avitas Adolphus Cutinha also known as Dolla Mangalore will be awarded with '12th Bahrain Konkani Kutam-2013' award in recognition of his contribution to Konkani language. Announcing this to media persons on Wednesday, Convener of Konkani Kutam Bahrain Richard Moras said that awards would be presented on July 28 at 6.30 p.m. at St Sebastian Platinum Jubilee Hall

Mangalore, July 24: The district unit of Campus Front of India (CFI) held a demonstration and road-block near University College at Hampankatta here on Wednesday, protesting against malicious assaults on innocent students by miscreants. The demonstrators claimed that certain communal forces belonging to saffron outfits were trying to disrupt the communal harmony in the region by indulging in acts

Mangalore, Jul 24: In view of inculcating a sense of patriotism and national pride among the children, Centre for Integrated Learning in association with the Lions Club Mangalore and Dakshina Kannada District Ex-Servicemen Association will be organizing an inter-school workshop on `Patriotism and National Pride' at Lions Seva Mandir, Kadri in the city on Friday to commemorate Kargil Vijay Diwas

Vittal, Jul 24: A student was thrashed by a group of students on Tuesday for teasing a female student, at Vittal Government First Grade College. The students affiliated to ABVP staged a stir from Tuesday morning and demanded suspension of the Principal. It is said that a male students pursuing his final year BSW course misbehaved with a female student of the same college. The girl hailing from

Bangalore, Jul 24: Co-operation Minister H S Mahadev Prasad on Tuesday announced in the Legislative Assembly that criminal cases would be booked against persons responsible for irregularities in the Amanath Co-operative Bank. The minister, while replying to a demand by the BJP MLAs to refer the scams to the Central Bureau of Investigation, said three scams had come to light in the Bank till now