Karnataka

Mangalore, Jul 4: The degree block of the Melkar Women's PUC and Degree College, Marnabail, a unit of Mangalore Education Enhancement Trust, was inaugurated recently by Minister for Forest, Ecology and Environment and Dakshina Kannada district-in-charge B Ramanatha Rai. Speaking on the occasion Mr Rai said that the higher education has already reached to the common, down trodden section of the

Bangalore, Jul 4: Hafeez Shamsul Hudah, editor and owner of city based Urdu weekly 'Makhzan', was Brutally murdered in broad daylight on Wednesday by unknown miscreants at his office at Tannery Road here. He was a journalist, a news weekly owner, a credit co-operative society functionary and a primary school proprietor. Police are wondering whose toes he tread upon, resulting in his murder. A

Mangalore, Jul 4: Sudden gush of water has inundated several areas of Maravoor near Bajpe on the outskirts of the city on Thursday, causing the region to be flooded due to the overflow of water at the vented dam caused by heavy rain. Speaking to Coastaldigest.com, engineer in-charge of Maravoor vented dam Prabhakar said that no damage had occurred to the actual structure of the dam. “Due to heavy

Mangalore/Udupi, Jul 4: The incessant rains across the coastal Karnataka have raised the water level of prominent rivers in Dakshina Kannada and Udupi districts. Heavy rains continued to lash coastal Karnataka increasing the inflow of water into the rivers and drains across twin district of Dakshina and Udupi districts. The metrological department has issued caution of nearly 175 mm rainfall for

Bangalore, Jul 4: The demand for the elevation of KPCC president G Parameshwara to the post of Deputy Chief Minister has found many voices in state doubling the problems of two month old government of Chief Minister Siddaramaiah in Karnataka. A group of senior Congress leaders is learnt to have urged AICC general secretary in-charge of Karnataka Digvijay Singh to make KPCC president G Parameshwara

Bangalore, Jul 4: The State BJP, on Wednesday, termed AICC?General?Secretary in-charge of Karnataka affairs Digvijay Singh's allegation that the BJP would try to disrupt communal harmony ahead of the Lok Sabha polls as a “cheap gimmick” and “stooping to the lowest level”. Addressing a press conference in Bangalore, BJP?spokesperson C?T?Ravi wondered whether Singh was conspiring to incite communal

Mangalore, Jul 3: Several woes of citizens came to the fore as Mangalore City South MLA J R Lobo visited several suburbs of the city along National Highway 17 on Wednesday, along with officials belonging to National Highway Authority of India (NHAI). Locals living around Maroli on the NH 17 vented their grievances when Mr Lobo visited the spot for an inspection. They complained that the tar

Shimoga, Jul 3: Karnataka Education Department will shortly review all textbooks from class 1 to 10 and remove contents that cause enmity in society on the basis of religion and caste and disturbs communal harmony, Minister for Primary and Secondary Education Kimmane Ratnakar said. Government would remove provocative materials in school text books introduced with "some ulterior motives" and

Ahmedabad, Jul 3: The CBI has filed its first chargesheet in the Ishrat Jahan 'fake encounter' case on Wednesday in Gujarat high court. Ishrat Jahan and three others were killed by Gujarat police nine years ago. In its chargesheet, the CBI said that Ishrat Jahan was not a terrorist, but the three others killed along with her in a fake encounter on the outskirts of Ahmedabad nine years ago had

Malpe, Jul 3: Western Ghats has embraced some young ones in its arms. They are none other than 24 young ones of cobras, which were hatched naturally and 32 little pythons born through artificial methods of hatching. Vasanth Mendon from Malpe had called herpetologist Gururaj Sanil to inspect an anthill that had come up near his house. Gururaj found that there were several young ones of Cobras