Karnataka

Mangalore, September 25: Former fast bowler for the Indian cricket team Javagal Srinath advice the cricket-loving boys to keep at cricket until the age of around 20, as that is the time their fitness would be at the best. Interacting with media persons in the city on Sunday, the 'Mysore Express' Srinath said that even if boys are not chosen to play in under-15 tournaments they should not lose

Mangalore, September 25: Hundreds of people in the city on Sunday ran for a cause, as medical colleges and hospitals conducted various awareness programmes as part of the World Heart Day. Kasturba Medical College, Mangalore and Nitte KS Hegde Medical College (Kshema), Deralakatte organised awareness runs from Bejai to Attavar and from Pumpwell to IMA hall respectively early in the morning

Mangalore, September 25: Corporate affairs minister M Veerappa Moily backed home minister P Chidambaram saying the minister, who is facing flak from opposition over his stand in the controversial 2G spectrum allocation, need not resign from the cabinet. Chidambaram need not resign based on the details submitted by finance minister Pranab Mukherjee. The opposition's demand for the home minister's

Mangalore, September 25: Make a Difference (MAD), a youth volunteer network that works with underprivileged children completed 'Tour de difference' wherein volunteers cycled to 12 Indian cities, and covered 4,240 kilometers in the months of August and September and were able to raise a sum of Rs 3.60 lakh towards the purchase of Cambridge syllabus textbooks for 300 underprivileged children in

Mangalore, September 24: Congress leaders in city have cast doubt over a move by the district in-charge minister Krishna J Palemar seeking help of local builders under recently mooted 'Sundara Mangalore' project. Former MLA Vijaykumar Shetty and Opposition leader in MCC Lancelot Pinto in a joint press meet here on Saturday alleged Palemar, a builder by profession, of trying to regularise the

Mangalore, September 24: Karnataka State Human Rights Commission Chairperson S R Nayak on Saturday suggested to embark on a legal battle over the 'scarf issues' often being reported from different educational institutions of the state and country, where Muslim girls were not allowed to wear head scarf. Reacting to the case of Hadiya Iqbal, a second year student of Jain PU College, Moodbidri, who

Mangalore, September 24: In a heartrending tragedy, an elderly woman and her middle aged son were found charred to death under mysterious circumstances in their house at Kallandadka village in Bantwal taluk late on Friday night. The deceased were identified as Bhavaniyamma (60) and her son Krishna (32), who were living together. Local sources said that they were leading a poor life. Krishna, who

Mangalore, September 24: City police chief Seemanth Kumar Singh and Dakshina Kannada SP Labhu Ram came in the crosshairs of Karnataka State Human Rights Commission (SHRC) which ticked them off for their failure to keep a check on errant subordinates. SHRC chairperson S R Nayak in particular was peeved at failure of city police in detecting the double murder case of a mother and daughter and a cab

Bantwal, September 24: Property worth several lakh rupees was gutted when a house belonging to a businessman in Vittla near here caught fire early on Saturday morning. However no injury or loss of life was reported. The house owner Shashidhar Pai was not present at the spot during the incident, it is learnt. The fire, which triggered in tile roofed house, situated on Vittla-Kasargod road, also

Mangalore, September 24: City based Reliance TimeOut, presented one of its kind workshop, A Happiness Evening. The workshop was conducted by Dr Rekha Shetty, author of the best seller, 'The Happiness Quotient'. The author demonstrated few happiness mantras from her book, which fueled the thirst of the audience to know more about the book. The workshop was followed by an interactive session and the