Karnataka

Mangalore, October 27: The Council of the Mangalore City Corporation has decided to hand over the maintenance of water supply to Adyar, Padu, Thumbe Gram pancahayts to Zilla Panchayat at the earliest. The supply of water to these villages without any income is incurring additional burden of Rs 84 lakh to the City Corporation. The agenda said that with the implementation of KUIDFC water supplying

Mangalore, October 26: Dubbing the BJP veteran L K Advani's 'Jan Chetana Yatra' as 'Vikala Chetana (handicapped) Yatra', Dakshina Kannada District Congress Committee president and Bantwal MLA B Ramanath Rai taunted the 84-year-old leader asking him how could his party rally against corruption in Karnataka, where the its own government is immersed in rampant corruption. Addressing the media persons

Udupi, October 26: Deepavali was celebrated in Sri Krishna Temple Udupi in a traditional way, on Wednesday, the Naraka Chathurdashi day. After the Paschima Jaagara pooja in the wee hours of Wednesday, Paryaya Shiroor Mutt pontiff Sri Laxmivara Theertha Swamiji offered Tailabhisheka to the idol of lord Krishna. The same oil was later served to the devotees. Shiroor Swamiji, Sode Mutt pontiff Sri

Udupi, October 26: Some unidentified miscreants burgled Sri Janaradana Temple, at Yermalu, near Padubidri on Tuesday late night. Burglars, who gained in to the temple by breaking open the doors, took away silver jewellery and utensils including a silver crown, an eye plate, Kanaka and Vaijayathi pattern chains and a hand fan from the temple. Trustee of the temple Ashokraj registered a complaint

Mangalore, October 26: As a sing of reformation in Hinduism, hundreds of Hindu widows on the auspicious occasion of Deepavali, received a rousing reception at Sri Gokarnatheshwara Temple at Kudroli, here. The presence of widows, who were once considered to be a curse in the Hindu society, was the main feature of 'Chandrika Homa', 'Lakshmi Pooja' and 'Rathotsava' conducted at the Temple on

Mangalore, October 26: Bharatiya Janata Party's Yuva Morcha on Wednesday launched a four-day 'yuva jagruti yatra' in Dakshina Kannada district as a prelude to L K Advani's Jan Chetana Yatra. The yatra was flagged off in front of the BJP office here in the presence of Mangalore M P Nalin Kumar Kateel, DK district in-charge minister Krishna J Palemar, Dy Speaker of Karnataka Legislative Assembly N

Mangalore, October 26: Chief Minister D V Sadananda Gowda announced Rs 1 lakh relief to the next kin of a college student, who was killed in a lightning strike in the city. The CM, who visited Mangalore on Tuesday, responding to the question of a media person said that he would sanction the relief amount without delay. 21-year-old Naveen lost his life after he was struck by lightning when he had

Mangalore, October 26: Although a strong Lokpal Bill is the need of hour, it alone cannot eliminate corruption from the country, opined former Karnataka Lokayukta Justice N Santosh Hegde. He was addressing a meeting organised by Mangalore Senior Citizens' Association at Karnataka Bank Hall, here on Tuesday. Mr Hegde, who is also a member of Team Anna said that entire country should be united

Mangalore, October 26: The Dakshina Kannada milk Union Federation is scouting for a suitable place in Udupi district to establish a higher capacity dairy processing unit following capacity constraints at its existing unit at Manipal. Federation president Raviraj Hegde told TOI that they are scouting for a 6-10 acre land in between Brahmavar and Udupi for the new unit, which will have the capacity

Mangalore, October 26: It was rather a festival of lightning in Mangalore than that of lights. The Diwali, locally known as Deepavali was on Tuesday literally marred by continued rains coupled with lighting and thunder, which caused immense damage in and around the city in last two days. The colourful scenes of fireworks reaching sky-high were subsided as soon as the powerful lightning and thunder