Karnataka

Mangalore, January 7: Abhishek Goyal, till recently Bagalkot Superintendent of Police, took charge as Dakshina Kannada Superintendent of Police from Additional SP M Prabhakar on Friday evening. The 2004 batch IPS officer has recently been posted in place of Labhu Ram, who has been posted as the new SP of Davangere. Mr Goyal, however after taking over, left to Madikeri to attend a high level review

Mangalore, January 7: The Karnataka Tulu Sahitya Academy on Saturday conducted an interaction programme to bring together scholars, writers, academicians and registrars of the Academy, who ran the government's body during their term. The programme was aimed at exchanging experiences about how the Academy worked during earlier times and the way it should work in the future. Since its inception 17

Mangalore, January 7: The minority unit of Dakshina Kannada district Janata Dal (Secular) staged a protest in front of the office of Deputy Commissioner here on Friday condemning the suspension and transfer of police personnel, whose impartial action against the miscreants for pelting stones at the Sullia police station had drawn the ire of Sangh Parivar and Bharatiya Janata Party. Addressing the

Bijapur, January 7: The six people arrested in connection with the hoisting of a Pakistani flag in Sindagi town in Bijapur district on January 1 had hatched the plan a week ago, according to the police. The special team of the district police on January 4 arrested Rakesh Siddaramaiah Math, president of the Sindagi town unit of the Sri Rama Sene, and members Mallangouda Vijaykumar Patil, Parashuram

Mangalore, January 7: Popular Kannada writer H Nagaveni has finally revealed that her much discussed novel Gandhi Banda, which has been in the news recently following a demand by a section of a people for its removal from Mangalore University's syllabus, was indeed based on a real story. Participating in an interaction programme organized by Journalists Study Centre at Sahodaya Hall here on

Mangalore, January 7: Some unidentified miscreants have damaged the lamp-post of the Padavu St Xavier Church at Kadaba in Puttur in Dakshina Kannada district was damaged by miscreants on Friday. The lamp, known as Kalvilakku in Malayalam, which was constructed near the holy cross outside the church, was completely damaged. Church authorities said the incident may have taken place late in the night

Mangalore, January 7: Protesting against the removal of two experts from the panel appointed to study the impact of the Udupi Thermal Power Plant on the environment, Pejawar mutt seer Vishwesha Teertha has decided to go on three-day fast at a temple in Padubidri from Monday. The state government removed YB Ramakrishna and TB Ramachandra from the committee recently. The seer described the

Mangalore, January 7: Mangalore MP Nalin Kumar Kateel inaugurated the Gandhi Shilp Bazaar, the national-level handicrafts mela held at Hotel Woodland on Jan 6 Friday. This ten day exhibition cum sale of handicrafts from all over the country has been organised by organised by Cauvery, the Karnataka State Handicrafts Development Corporation Limited (KSHDCL) under sponsorship of Development

Mangalore, January 6: 'Gomandala- Gopooja', a three day special programme to worship cow as god, organised by the Govanithashraya Trust, Mangalore, at Nehru Maidan in the city was inaugurated on Friday evening. Speaking on the occasion, Mangalore MP Nalin Kumar Kateel said, after the independence we have seen the way our country depends on the cow. He said even before Independence India had to

Mangalore, January 6: Sustained and committed work by a small group of resourceful individuals can surely solve many problems faced by the downtrodden section of the Muslim community in the region, said Abdussalam Puthige, Chief Editor of Varthabharathi. He was delivering the presidential address at a documentary launch-cum-discussion programme organised by Hidayah Foundation at IMA Hall, here on