Karnataka

Mangalore, Feb 23: Dr. Kadri Gopalnath, veteran saxophone artiste, A B Subbaiah, renowned hockey player from Coorg and Dr. Chandrashekhara Kambhara, litterateur, were conferred with honorary doctorates at the 31st Convocation of Mangalore University on Saturday by H R Bharadwaj, Governor of Karnataka and the Chancellor of Mangalore University. Delivering the Convocation Address on the theme

Mangalore, Feb 24: Posters, banners and talks on HIV/AIDS awareness have been experimented and witnessed by all. How about a ferry ride? Taking the road less taken and doing their bit for the society, Department of Mass Communication at St Aloysius College, Mangalore, along with Boloor Mogaveera Sabha, a ferry service and Hongirana Network of Positive People (HNPP), an NGO, came up with an

Mangalore, Feb 23: The Students Islamic Organisation of India, Karnataka zone, organised a talk on 'drug abuse and alcoholism' at Shri Dharmasthala Manjunatheshwara College of Business Management, in the city on Friday as one of its initiatives of the nationwide campaign against tobacco, alcoholism and drugs. Addressing a gathering of management and law students B S Sharafuddin, Kuwait, urged the

Mangalore, Feb 23: Members of Akhila Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP) staged a protest in the city condemning the twin bomb blasts that rocked Hyderabad two days ago. The demonstrators held a silent prayer to the 16 victims who lost their lives in the twin blasts. Addressing the protestors at a junction in MG Road, state secretary of the organisation Ramesh said that the bomb blasts were acts

Bangalore, Feb 23: As leaders from other political parties are on their toes to join the Congress, the party has decided to tread cautiously as any wrong move would trigger rebellion within its ranks, spoiling its prospects in the ensuing urban local body (ULB) elections scheduled for March 7. The ULB elections results are considered important as they are likely to set the trend for the crucial

Mangalore, Feb 23: Issue based social service programmes are the need of the hour, said Sheena Shetty, Director of Jana Shikshana Trust and Ombudsman of the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS), DK Zilla Panchayath. He was speaking as a guest of honour at the valedictory ceremony of 'Spandana 2013', the two day national level student social workers' symposium on the

Hubli, Feb 23: Rattled by a spate of resignations of ministers and legislators from Karnataka's ruling BJP, Chief Minister Jagadish Shettar Friday said Congress was behind the development as it wanted to pull down his government. "Congress is scared that it will be defeated in the coming polls (local body and assembly) and hence is engineering the resignations," Shettar told reporters a day after

Chikmagalur, Feb 23: Three policemen, including a sub-inspector of Aldur police station allegedly raped a woman who was in their custody in Bangalore, recently. The victim has lodged a complaint with District Superintendent of Police N Shashikumar against station sub-inspector Shivakumar, and constables Mahesh and Gurumurthy. The trio have gone missing after news of the incident surfaced. The

Mangalore, Feb 23: A large number of fake mobile handsets and smartphones and tablets including duplicates of the latest high-end Samsung Galaxy S3 are doing the rounds in the city's grey market. After Friday's police raid on Dubai Market shopping complex near Central Market, it was found that fraudsters had created software to programme Chinese handsets to look like original handsets and tablets

Mangalore/Udupi, Feb 22: Security has been beefed up in both Udupi and Dakshina Kannada district as precautionary measure, following serial blasts in Hyderabad on Thursday. Police personnel have been deployed in several major tourist spots, populated areas and temples including Sri Krishna Mutt in Udupi for security. Udupi District Superintendent of Police Dr M Boralingaiah, Deputy Superintendent