Karnataka

Mangalore, October 18: Union Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar and Chief Minister D V Sadananda Gowda will lay foundation stone for the Phase III extension work of the fishing jetty in the fisheries harbour at old port on November 2. The development work will be completed within three years, said Fisheries and Science and Technology Minister Anand V Asnotikar. Speaking to the media persons during

Mangalore, October 18: Karnataka Beary Sahitya Academy will organise 'Beary Sammelana' on December 10 and 11 at Town Hall. Former education minister B A Moidin will chair this two day event. Around 10,000 people, would participate in the Sammelana, including 1,500 members of different national and international Beary organisations ,said a press release from the Academy. Various sessions will be

Udupi, October 17: “Yeddyurappa is not a convict, but only an accused. Let us wait till the court gives its final verdict…” these are the words uttered by Pejawar Mutt seer Vishwesha Theertha Swamiji in favour of former CM BS Yedyurappa. Though he welcomed the judicial activism leading to the arrest of arrests of several political leaders in the country, he said “it is a warning to the corrupt

Udupi, October 17: Activists of Udupi unit of Raitha Sangha headed by its president Vijay Kumar Hegde and Vice President of Nandikur Jana Jagrithi Samithi Madhava Shetty, on Monday staged a half nude protest against the government apathy in holding the public hearing on the ill effects of UPCL power plant, in front of the DC Office here. In the beginning hundreds of agitators come from Padubidri

Mangalore, October 17: Karnataka excise officials have seized around 216 litres of Goan liquor in a raid on the outskirts of the city on Monday. Acting on a tip off received by excise superintendent H Puttaswami, the sleuths of excise intelligence wing recovered the liquor cans hidden in a cluster of bushes near Padil railway over bridge, sources said. The value of liquor seized is estimated to be

Mangalore, October 17: Mangalore Airport Workers' Association started an indefinite protest outside the entrance to the airport, on Monday condemning sacking of contract workers without any reason. The protesters demanded the airport authorities to re-appoint the workers to their duty at the earliest. Addressing the protesters Association Member Krishnananda said that several local people working

Pilikula, October 17: Minister for Science and Technology Anand V Asnotikar on Monday afternoon inspected the construction work of Regional Science Centre at Pilikula Nisargadhama at Vamanjoor near here. RSC that is under construction at a cost of Rs 9 crore with equal funding from state and central governments is scheduled for inauguration in February next. The government has approved

Mangalore, October 17: As many as 15 helpless construction workers including a woman hailing from remote villages of West Bengal, who were forced to work as bonded labourers for over one and a half month under a contract company affiliated to Mangalore Refinery and Petrochemicals Limited at Porkodi near Bajpe on the outskirts of the city, were rescued in an early morning operation on Monday

Mangalore, October 17: The state government should apologise Peoples Democratic Party leader Abdul Nasir Madani, who is lodged in Bangalore Central Jail since past 14 months, and release him immediately and unconditionally, said 'Dalit Voice' editor V T Rajshekhar. He was speaking after inaugurating Human Rights Protection conference demanding the release of Madani, organised by Karnataka Justice

Mangalore, October 17: The city unit of Jamaat-e-Islami Hind (JIH) on Sunday organised a special lecture on 'Islamic Family and Inheritance Right' at RL Convention Hall here. Delivering the lecture in Urdu Maulana Sayyid Jalauddeen Umri, all India president of JIH, said that Islamic law of inheritance is based on justice. K M Ashraf, State Secretary of the organisation translated the lecture into