Karnataka

Mangalore, December 6: A delegation comprising families of the Mangalore air crash victims met a top official of Air India on Monday here seeking an early settelemtnt to their compensation claims. President of the Mangalore Air Crash Victims' Families Association Mohammed Beary said the offical - Chief Executive Officer S. Chandrakumar - had promised that a team along with the Air India's advocate

Mangalore, December 5: Dakshina Kannada District Congress Committee has decided to counter the propaganda launched by the RSS-affiliated organisations against the Prevention of Communal and Targeted Violence (Access to Justice and Reparations) Bill 2011. District Congress chief B Ramanath Rai told media persons on Monday that DCC would be organising taluk-level awareness programmes on the

Mangalore, December 5: Mangalore University will be organising a three-day International Conference on Synthetic and Structural Chemistry (ICSSC-2011) on its Mangalagangothri campus near here from December 8. Announcing this at a press conference here on Monday, University Vice Chancellor of the Prof T C Shivashankar Murthy said that the conference gains significance in that the UN General

Mangalore, December 5: The Mangalore Chess Academy (MCA) in association with Bharathiya Vidya Bhavan under the auspices of South Kanara district Chess Association has conducted Inter district Chess Tournament on Sunday at Bharathiya Vidya Bhavan in the city. The tournament attracted 43 players from South Kanara and Udupi district, out of which 15 players were Fide rated. Prizes were distributed in

Mangalore, December 5: City's Town Hall was on Sunday alive with music as the concert 'Naada Vittala-Veda Vittala' organised by the Sangeeth Bharathi Foundation enthralled the gathering. The concert was a Hindustani vocal jugalbandi by Pt Jayatheerth Menundi, Hubli and Pt Anad Bhate, Pune. Accompanying them on the harmonium were Narendra L Nayak, Sri Bharath Kamath on the tabla, Sri Prasad Joshi

Udupi, December 5: District and Sessions Judge Narendra Kumar Gunaki on Sunday launched the Legal Literacy Campa6ign in Udupi district by flagging off 'Kaanoonu Ratha' at Alevoor. Speaking on the occasion Gunaki said that legal awareness among the people would help them in exercising their rights. Udupi District Legal Services Authority in association with Bar Associaiton Udupi, Revenue Department

Mangalore, December 5: Representatives of Scheduled Caste and Scheduled Tribe communities have expressed their anger over the khakhi inaction during the assault on backward classes' organization leader at government-run Kukke Subrahmanya temple. Speaking at the monthly grievance meeting at the office of Dakshina Kannada Superintendent of Police, Shekhar a Dalit representative asked why the police

Mangalore, December 4: Scholars 2011, the annual inter high school quiz competition, was held at Infosys Mangalore on Sunday. The quiz saw participation from students belonging to 86 high schools in the Dakshina Kannada and Udupi Districts. This is the seventh consecutive year that Infosys conducted this quiz. Kannada and English quizzes were conducted for the students based on their medium of

Mangalore, December 4: Raga Tharanga, a forum which encourages young talent and provides a platform for cultural expression like song, dance and theatre organised 'Bala Prathibothsava', 2011 at Town hall on Saturday. The function was organised to give away the prizes for the district level cultural competitions held by the forum. Children from all parts of the district had taken part in the

Mangalore, December 4: Ahmed Anwar, the official photographer of 'Coastaldigest and Coastal Mirror' has emerged one of winners of Kadri Kambala photography competition organised as part of the Kadri Kambala. Award winning photo of Ahmed Anwar While Sudhakar Yermal of Vijaya Karnataka, Ravi Posavanike of Times of India and freelance photographer Bhaskar Amtoor bagged best photography awards, G K