Karnataka

Mangalore, September 23: Station master of Mangalore Junction ( Kankanady) railway station Rajagopal has been suspended by the Palakkad division of railways based on charges of dereliction of duty. Due to a signal fault, the Mangalore Kabaka Puttur passenger train had run on the tracks towards Surathkal on Tuesday. Following this, the rail traffic was disrupted for some time. A goods train from

Mangalore, September 23: BJP has leveled false allegations against Ullal Town Municipal Council. The Council is ready for any kind of investigation from government or Lokayukta, said the Municipal Standing Committee President Farooque Ullal, addressing a press meet at Congress office on Thursday. BJP is trying to misguide the administration of the municipal council. The opposition party is not

Mangalore, September 23: Right to Education Act (RTE) might have been implemented in the country but the Mysore Regional Level Seminar on the Act questioned whether the children are actually getting the right kind of education under the Act or not. Addressing the gathering during the seminar held at CODP Hall, in Mangalore on Thursday, District Institute for Education and Training (DIET) Principal

Mangalore, September 22: An outing at Tannirbavi beach near here proved fatal for a student of a city college as he met watery grave on Thursday at 3.15 pm. The deceased has been identified as Soreiwung (19), a second year BSc student of St Aloysius College. The police said about five students of the College had gone to the beach along with Soreiwung. However, Soreiwung reportedly lost his balance

Kundapur, September 22: A 15 year old boy has ended his life by hanging himself inside his house here on Thursday. The deceased has been identified as Swasthik, a Standard IX student of Venkataramana English Medium School, Kundapura. According to sources, the boy took this extreme step due to the fear of scoring less marks in the mid-session examinations. Kundapura police registered a case and are

Udupi, September 22: Members of Udupi district BJP Yuva Morcha staged a protest against the hike in the prices of petrol on Thursday evening. The protesters pulled a cart carrying the look alike of UPA Chairperson Sonia Gandhi and Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, around the Clock Tower, near Service Bus Stand in the city. District BJP President Uday Kumar Shetty, secretary Shyamala Kundar, Yuva

Mangalore, September 22: Christian youths facing criminal cases in the aftermath of attacks on churches in September 2008 will have to wait for some time before cases against them are dropped. The state government that set up the Justice B K Somasekhara Commission of Inquiry to go into the issues that led to the attacks and incidents thereafter is yet to take a view on the report, said S M Jaamdar

Mangalore, September 22: K Harish Kumar took charge as the Commissioner of Mangalore City Corporation on Thursday. The post of the Commissioner was vacant after the Government transferred Dr K N Vijayaprakash, and posted as Chief Executive Officer of Dakshina Kannada Zilla Panchayat in last July. However Dr Vijayaprakash had continued to manage both the posts due to the delay in new appointment

Mangalore, September 22: M N Rajendra Kumar was unanimously re-elected president of South Canara District Central Cooperative (SCDCC) Bank on Wednesday for the eighth consecutive term. Kumar was elected at the board meeting of the newly elected board of directors chaired by senior director Niranjan Bhavanthabettu. Kumar, who was first elected president of the Bank in 1994, has been at the helm of

Mangalore, September 22: It is the sixth day since the boat mishap at high seas on last Thursday and the chances of recovering the bodies of the five fishermen lost at sea are becoming bleak. Trawl Boat Owners Association committee member Mohan Bengre told TOI that usually bodies are recovered or washed ashore within three days of a mishap. "The chances of finding the bodies after five days are