Karnataka

Mangalore, October 24: In yet another act of vandalism targeting religious symbols at the educational institutions in city, unidentified miscreants have desecrated a chapel at Padua Pre University College in Nanthoor, here. The incident comes a few hours after the statue of St Therese at St Theresa's School, Bendur, was attacked by the trouble mongers early on Sunday. According to the management

Mangalore, October 23: Over a decade after then-chief minister S M Krishna's ardent dream of transforming the metropolitan city of Karnataka into 'Singapore', was subsided, a promising politician from coastal Karnataka has floated a new idea of converting Mangalore into Singapore. The event was the 81st founder's day of the Vijaya Bank organised in Mangalore on Sunday. The Deputy Speaker of

Mangalore, October 23: The management of city based St Theresa's School, where a statue of St Therese was attacked by the miscreants in the early hours of Sunday, said that the intention behind the evil act was to desecrating the statue and creating breach of the peace in the city. Addressing a media conference at the School premises here after the attack, Sr Lynette, former president of the

Kasaragod, October 23: Section 144 of the Kerala Police Act was clamped under the limits of the Vidyanagar and Kasaragod police stations. The District Collector imposed the prohibitory order for seven days from Sunday. The order was passed since a section of the people tried to take out a march in Uliyathadka in Madhur grama panchayat where a youth returning home was stabbed by a group of

Mangalore, October 23: Communist Party of India (Marxist) leader and former Kasaragod MP T Govind on Sunday breathed his last at a private hospital in the city. He was 73. Born on January 11, 1940, as the eldest son of Raman Panikkar and Chemmarathi couple in Payyanur, Govind had formally entered the CPI as a member in 1963. The very next year he became the member of CPI (M). Recognising his

Manjeshwar, October 23: Two localites of the town were among the 60 fortunate people who were rescued after an Iranian ship carrying 73 voyagers sank in the Persian Gulf last Thursday. They have been identified as Avinash (25), a resident of Hosangady near here and Mohammed Haneef (37), a resident of Peringady near here. 13 people including seven Indian divers, who had stuck underwater, when the

Mangalore, October 23: The Akhila Bharatha Karmika Sangha members on Saturday withdrew their fast-unto-death agitation, following the assurance from Deputy Speaker in the Legislative Assembly N Yogish Bhat, on the problems in ESI hospital being set right within a month. ABSK general secretary Sudatta Jain, who had launched the hunger strike on October 18, withdrew the 103-hour-long agitation when

Mangalore, October 23: The death toll in the accidental blast at the crude oil storage tank at phase III of Mangalore Refinery and Petrochemicals Ltd (MRPL) near here has gone up to two, as one of the inured labourers died in hospital. Authorities confirmed that Pappu Mahanto (22) from West Bengal, who was admitted to the burns unit of Father Muller Medical College Hospital here with nearly 70%

Mangalore, October 23: Mild tension prevailed in the city on Sunday morning as unidentified miscreants targeted the statue of St Theresa installed at St Theresa's School Bendur, Mangalore. The transparent fibre cell of the statue was completely damaged when the miscreants pelted stones in the early hours. It is said that three people, who came on a motorbike between 4:00 am and 4:30 am pelted

Mangalore, October 22: The issues of load shedding, sand mining and unrepaired roads dominated the progress review meeting of Karnataka Development Programme held at Dakshina Kannada Zilla Panchayat here on Saturday. Expressing unhappy over the unscheduled load shedding, District in-charge Minister Krishna J Palemar directed the officials of Mangalore Electricity Supply Company to announce its