Karnataka

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

Mangalore, September 21: A temporary night shelter for homeless people was inaugurated near Sharavu temple in the city on Wednesday. Inaugurating the shelter, where at least 10 people can be accommodated, MCC Commissioner in charge Dr K N Vijayaprakash said that the civic body has taken this step in adherence to Supreme Court's order. He said the shelter was set up with funds from the city

Mangalore, September 21: Almost 95 per cent of the reported crimes in this country go unpunished due to the poor criminal justice system, lamented S M Jaamdar, Principal Home Secretary, Government of Karnataka. Inaugurating a new post-graduation course -M Sc in Criminology and Forensic Science - at the School of Social Work, Roshni Nilaya, here, on Wednesday, he said overdependence on

Mangalore, September 21: City based KMC Hospital will be conducting the World Heart Day Run for seventh consecutive year. Announcing this to media persons here on Tuesday Maj Gen (Rtd) Dr G Rajagopal AVSM, Dean KMC, said that the Run would be conducted on September 25 and World Heart Day would be observed on September 29 by conducting inhouse awareness programme. He said, the rally would be

Mangalore, September 21: A Tamil Nadu based man allegedly killed his wife and then tried to end his own life at the residential quarters of Karnataka Forest Development Corporation at Mandekara in Aittoor village in Puttur taluk. The victim has been identified as Pandeshwari (27), a temporary worker at a local rubber tapping centre. She was staying at the quarters allotted to her mother Devika

New Delhi, September 21: More people could have lost their lives in June, in a replay of the events that led to India's worst air crash in a decade in Mangalore last year that killed 158 people. On 25 June, an Air India Express flight (IX-208) from Mumbai landed deep into the table-top runway located on a mountain in Mangalore. The captain decided to take off and land again after circling the