Karnataka

Mangalore, December 9: A delegation of Mangalore Catholic Diocese met Chief Minister Sadananda Gowda at his residence on Thursday and extended a formal invitation to him to attend the post-centenerany silver jubilee celebrations of the diocese being celebrated early next year. The delegation, headed by the Public Relations Officer of the Mangalore Diocese Fr. William Menezes, met Sadananda Gowda

Mangalore, December 9: The Karnataka State government has appointed Umanath A Kotyan as the new president of Karnataka Tulu Sahitya Academy. He will succeed Paltady Ramakrishna Achar. Basically a state artist, Umanath is an amateur actor, director and story writer and has dabbled in this field for the last two decades. Currently, he is the vice-president of Dakshina Kannada district unit of

Mangalore, December 9: Fr Ivan Madtha of Mangalore diocese received the prestigious National Excellence Award 2011 from Catholic Priests' Conference of India (CPCI) at a function organised at Trichur in Kerala. He was chosen for the award in recognition for his work as a magician priest, for the creative use of the art of magic for the promotion of the Kingdom values and for his great resilient

Mangalore, December 9: The shift of research centres from the State and the Central universities to that of elite institutes in India in the 1950s has curbed major chunk of students from pursuing researches, opined Mangalore University Vice-Chancellor Prof T C Shivashankar Murthy. He said though the research centres in the elite institutes like IITs and IISc have produced quite a few extraordinary

Mangalore, December 9: A two-day national seminar on Chemistry, sponsored by U.G.C will be held at Vijaya College, Mulki from December 15. H Shantharam, administrative officer, Academy of General Education, Manipal will inaugurate the conference. MS Balakrishna, department of chemistry, IIT, Mumbai will deliver the keynote address. MAR Kudva, president of governing council of the College will

Mangalore, December 8: The 'Poura Sanmana' and 'Abhivandana' programme for Shree Vishwavallabha Theertha Swamiji of Sode Mutt, Udupi was conducted at Town Hall in the city on Thursday. The Swamiji was welcomed in the ceremonial 'Kumba' fashion with sounds of the 'Chande' reverberating the evening. Prominent persons from the society were present on this occasion. Pradeep Kumar Kalkura of Kalkura

Mangalore, December 8: One of the best sky events of this year is lunar eclipse on Saturday, December 10. Full moon passes deep into Earth Shadow. This lunar Eclipse puts on a great show to us on that day. The total eclipse will be between 7.36 pm to 8.27 pm for 51 minutes. The moon likely will take on an orange red-colour during totality as a small amount of sun light passes through earth

Mangalore, December 8: As part of 'Jeernodhara and 'Punah Prathishta' (renovation and restoration) programme of Sri Venkatramana Temple located at car street, here, a new flag pole was erected on the Temple premises on Wednesday. The formal 'Prathishtapane' of the flag pole will be conducted on January 24 in the presence of Kashi Mutt pontiff Shreemad Sudheendra Theertha Swamiji. The temple chief

Mangalore, December 8: The Rotary Club of Mangalore Central (RCMC) as part of its community development projects is organising the '14th annual Rotary Orphanage Olympics' at Mangala Stadium on Sunday, December 11. Announcing this at a press meet here on Thursday, Rtn Manjunath Revankar, President, RCMC, said the day long sports and cultural event was being organised exclusively for the 800

Mangalore, December 8: Axis Bank, India's third largest private Bank, in association with Manipal Global Education Services (MaGE) has announced the launch of 'Young Bankers' Program, an initiative to attract young graduates to a career in banking with Axis Bank. Young Bankers Program, a one year full time residential program will be conducted at Manipal University Bangalore Campus and will impart