Karnataka

Mangalore, March 3: The former Lokayukta N. Santosh Hegde asked the young nursing graduates and diploma holders to uphold professional and moral values and not allow it to go down. Speaking at the graduation ceremony of Nitte Usha Institute of Nursing Sciences here on Friday, Mr. Hegde said society had been losing values and it could not be allowed to go down further. “See the incident that

Bhatkal, February 2: The activists of Students of Islamic Organisation of India took out a protest rally in the town against the saffronisation in the education system of state syllabus. Addressing the protestors Naseef Ikkeri said that SIO wanted to build a healthy student community on the basis of moral and humanitarian values. He said the government unfortunately is hell bent on poisoning the

Mangalore, March 2: Criticizing the current foreign policy being adopted by the central government, E Aboobakkar, National President, SDPI said that India is trying to please the US and Israel. He was speaking at the party's 'People's Political Conference' held at Nehru Maidan in the city on Friday. “What was the need to set up an Israeli consulate in Bangalore when that country doesn't possess

Mangalore, March 2: Journalists came out on streets in Mangalore protesting the attack on their colleagues in Bangalore by lawyers on the premises of the city civil court on Friday. They held a demonstration in front of the Deputy Commissioner's office and shouted slogans against the State Government for failing to protect journalists while discharging their duty. They also submitted a memorandum

Bangalore, March 2: Chief Minister D V Sadananda Gowda on Friday evening denied media reports about the death of a policeman in the advocates' attack in city court. Most of the Kannada TV channels had earlier claimed that a constable attached to Viveknagar police station died of injuries in Bowing Hospital following attack by the advocates this afternoon. The journalists had assembled to cover

Mangalore, March 2: N. Yogish Bhat, Deputy Speaker, Karnataka Legislative Assembly, has urged the bureaucracy to play their role properly and try to infuse life into their work. Speaking after inaugurating the two-day workshop on Karnataka Citizen's Charter Services Act ,2012 here at the Zilla Panchayat premises under the aegis of the Administration Training Institute (ATI), Mysore, Mr. Bhat said

Bangalore, March 2: An incident of media persons representing a private Kannada TV news channel being attacked by lawyers took place at the City Civil Court premises in Bangalore on Friday. The lawyers reportedly barred the entry of journalists to the City Civil Court complex saying the media portrayed them in bad light. The incident happened just after former BJP leader Janardhan Reddy was

Mangalore, March 2: Jamia Islamia, Bhatkal, will hold a series of educational programmes of national and international level to mark its 50th anniversary on 18, 19, 20, and 21 March. All programmes would be held under the presidency of Maulana Syed Muhammad Rabey Husaini Nadvi, patron of Jamia Islamia, Bhatkal, and President of All India Muslim Personal Law Board (AIMPLB). The main theme of the

Mysore, March 2: Lokayukta Superintendent of Police, S E D'Souza, died of a massive heart attack in his office room in the city on Thursday afternoon. The 57-year-old officer, who served in Mysore for the last three years, complained of a shooting pain in his left shoulder. He took some medicine and went to rest for a while in his office room. Colleagues who had never seen D'Souza rest in office

Mangalore, March 2: More number of families of victims of the air crash came forward for settlement of compensation before Air India counsel H.D. Nanavati. Mr. Nanavati has been meeting family members of the victims since Wednesday. "We settled for Rs. 1.2 crore. We are happy with the amount," said a member of the family of a victim of the 2010 air crash from Kasargod, who did not wish to be named