Karnataka

Manjeshwar, July 28: A girl who is supposed to be scaling the ladder of higher education after completing SSLC has been stuck by a painful disease, making her poverty stricken life even more painful. Daughter of Poovappa Belchad, a coolie worker, and Chandravathi of Kedumbaadi, Vorkady, 16 year old Pavithra is walking around with the weight of a huge tumor on her head. A student of Kunjatthoor

Mangalore, July 28: The newly elected member of Member of Legislative Council, Monappa Bhandari was given a warm felicitation by the special children in the city on Saturday. The programme was organised at Sanidhya Residential School for differently-abled children, at Shaktinagar, here. On the same occasion, a new phenol called as “Swachatha”, produced by the mentally challenged children of the

Mangalore, July 28: Members of the Dakshina Kannada and Udupi Public Works Department Contractors' Association have decided not to take up any asphalting and road projects until the state government clears their pending bills. Addressing media persons at Press Club in Mangalore on Saturday, Radhakrishna Naik, President of the DK unit of the Association said that bills amounting to Rs. 90 crore for

Mangalore, July 28: Zionist representative and Consul General of Israel Orna Sagiv will be visiting coastal city of Mangalore in the month-end. She is expected to deliver talk on '20 years of Indo-Israel diplomatic relations' at Kanara Chamber of Commerce and Industry Exim Facilitation Centre here on July 31. After decades of non-aligned and pro-Arab policy, India formally had established

Mangalore, July 28: J R Lobo, former commissioner, Mangalore City Corporation and Executive Director, Pilikula Nisargadhama Society, was officially inducted into the Congress party amid chaos at the district Congress office in Mangalore on Saturday. As the formal programme began, a fight broke out between Congress activists gathered at the venue over the absence of microphone for the occasion. The

Mangalore, July 28: Two girls committed suicide in separate incidents in Dakshina Kannada district on Friday. While one girl was pursuing PUC second year another was pursuing her BBM. In the first incident, which took place on Friday morning, a 17-year-old girl identified as Aishwarya Deepika, a PU student of Shri Dharmasthala Manjunatheshwara College, in Ujire. It is learnt that she hanged

Mangalore, July 28: The south-west monsoon visited parts of the State including the coastal districts and malnad with a vengeance on Friday. A farmer was washed away in flash floods while traffic on the Bangalore-Mangalore national highway was affected for over eight hours due to landslides. With the heavy rains lashing Uppinangady region since Thursday night, the water-level in Gundya river rose

Mangalore, July 28: Acting on a tip off busted a three-member gang from West Bengal including two minors for trying to circulate counterfeit currency notes in the city on Friday and seized 400 currency notes of Rs 500 face value from them. The accused are Niranjan Choudhary (22), Sunil Choudhary (14) and Mannu Choudhary (15), residents of different places in Malda district in West Bengal. Police

Mangalore, July 28: Yenepoya Foundation, Mangalore, has invited applications for its Yenepoya Excellence Awards 2012. A press release issued here stated that the foundation proposed to give academic excellence awards to students who had excelled in SSLC/PU and undergraduate courses in 2011-12. A few awards were common to all students and some were reserved for Muslim students. The awards were

Riyadh/Mangalore, July 27: Saad-bin-Zubair, a Kerala based Haafiz-e-Quran, who died after a car accident in the Eastern Province of Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, was buried at a cemetery in the city of Hafar al-Batin on Thursday. Medical sources said that said that the young expatriate had died of cardiac arrest after Wednesday's road accident, which occurred due to a tyre burst at Hafar al-Batin