Karnataka

Mangalore, May 24: The district administration will think about resuming KSRTC bus service to Mangalore airport, Dr. N S Chennappa Gowda, Deputy Commissioner, Dakshina Kannada district has said. KSRTC Volvo buses had been introduced to the airport in the past but the services were withdrawn following a dearth of passengers, Mr. Gowda told Coastaldigest.com. Two buses had been carrying passengers

Mangalore, May 24: PUC toppers of Dakshina Kannada district including Vivek Hegde, Chidananda H and Andrea Gonsalves have already made plans for their career. Vivek Hegde, a student of Alva's Pre-university College, Moodbidri, who secured 590 marks out 600 marks, said that he has plans to do engineering electronics and communication. “However, the decision will be taken only after the results of

Shirur, May 24: Green Valley National School & PU College of Shirur, in Udupi district, has secured cent per cent result for the second consecutive year in the second year PUC. Nadiya Parveen has topped the science section with 90% marks. Unnathi Pramod Badal emerged as the commerce topper with 92% marks. Unnathi has scored 100 marks in Accountancy. 80% science students have passed with first

Udupi, May 24: A poor student, who is working as a Chinese cook at a restaurant here in Udupi, has got 83.5 per cent of marks in Commerce stream in second PUC. Nisar, 25, who appeared for exam privately, belongs to Karnire village near Padubidri in Udupi district. One of the eight children in his family, Nisar began working as a kitchen help eight years ago. He became a cook four years ago and has

Mangalore, May 23: Hadiya Iqbal, a student of Moodbidri based Jain PU College, who had been forced to stay away from classes throughout her second year Pre University Course, felt a sense of betrayal on Wednesday, when she came to know that her result has been withheld for unknown reasons. The 17-year-old Commerce student, who had given the admission ticket in the last moment, had been eagerly

Mangalore, May 23: Petrol station forecourts in Mangalore on Wednesday evening were suddenly inundated with motorists stockpiling fuel in the wake of Union Government increasing the petrol price by Rs 7.50 a litre with effect from midnight tonight. Hundreds of vehicles were seen standing in long queues in front of almost all the petrol pumps across the city that resulted in traffic problem for

Mangalore, May 23: Residents of Melakoppala and Athrebailu areas near Kuloor staged a protest in front of the Deputy Commissioner's office here on Wednesday against the inaction of district administration pertaining to the mud dumping at Phalguni River carried out by MSEZ authorities. Some of the protestors lied on the floor with white cloth sheets covered over them to symbolically say that if no

Mangalore, May 23: Amidst the complaints of 'inhuman behaviour' by officials during a recent raid on unauthorized chaat stalls, a team of officials from Mangalore City Corporation on Wednesday carried out another round of surprise inspection in various parts of the city. The inspection was carried out as per the orders of MCC Commissioner Dr K Harish Kumar. Environment engineer Manjunath R Shetty

Udupi, May 23: Former Shimoga MP K G Shivappa (70) passed away after a prolonged illness at the Adarsh Hospital here on Tuesday. He was severely injured in a car accident at Kumsi in Shimoga district in December 2010 following which he was hospitalised in Bangalore and later in Udupi. Shivappa was elected to Lok Sabha as a Congress candidate from Shimoga constituency in 1991 by defeating the

Mangalore, May 23: Auto rickshaw drivers in Mangalore will go on strike between 10.30 a.m. and 2 p.m. on May 25 to pressure the district administration and local authorities to notify more auto rickshaw parking stands in the city. Revealing this to media persons at a press meet here on Tuesday, Ivan D'Souza, president of Mangalore Mahanagara Auto rickshaw Chalakara Sangha, said that the drivers