Karnataka

Mangalore, July 3: Traffic on the National Highway 66, connecting Kerala and Karnataka, was disrupted for nearly an hour following a landslide at Padupanambur in Mulky near here on Saturday. Vehicles from both sides were stranded as the road was completely blocked when the hillock slipped blocking the road at around 6pm. Police arranged for three earthmover machines immediately to clear the mass

Udupi, July 3: A lepoard created panic in Karkala on Saturday morning. The big cat was tranquillized after a six-hour struggle. A forest official and a policeman were injured in the operation to nab the it. The feline was first noticed by cashew factory workers at Kadulhole Village in Marne GP, 16 km from Karkala town. The animal was already wounded when it came in from the forests. As a crowd

Mangalore, July 2: Two school-going children had a narrow escape early on Saturday morning when a speeding car hit the centre median of a slippery road near St Agnes College, Bendur here. The Alto car landed straight over the road-divider, when the lady-driver lost control over it, while moving towards Bendur from St Theresa School at around 8:30 a.m. While the driver blamed the slippery road for

Mangalore, July 2: All India Postal Employees Union has decided to launch a nationwide indefinite strike from July 5. The Joint Council of Action representing the National Federation of Postal Employees (NFPE), Federation of National Postal Organisations (FNPO), All India Postal Extra Departmental Employees Union (AIPEDEU) and the National Union of Gramin Dak Sevaks (NUGDS) have called the strike

After giving 81 umbrellas to the students of the Gandhi Nagar Primary school to 'induce the rain gods' to give rain which succeeded as it has been raining cats and dogs in Mangalore, we decided to conduct one more of such by giving bags to those of the students who did not have them. Not just any ordinary bags but those with slogans on them to make them think. There were about 68 students needing

Mangalore, July 2: Labeling the draft of 'Prevention of Communal and Targeted Violence Bill, 2011' which has been put in the public domain, as anti-Hindu, the activists of Hindu Janajagruthi Samithi said that a nationwide campaign would be launched protesting the enactment of this bill. Ramananda Gowda, District Convener of the Samithi told media persons here on Saturday that the draft of bill

Mangalore, June 2: Dozens of women under the banner of Dakshina Kannada District Women Congress Committee staged protest against the policies of BJP ruled state government on Saturday. Addressing the protesters gathered in front of the office of Deputy Commissioner here, former Zilla Panchayat President Mamatha Gatti accused the Chief Minister BS Yeddyurappa of conspiring against farmers and poor

Riyadh, July 2: Seven people including a man hailing from Kundapur taluk in Udupi district, were killed in a fire mishap early on Saturday morning at Riaydh, the capital city of Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. The tragedy occurred in a residential room in the upper part of Al-Suvailin Supermarket in Bathha area of the capital. Muhammad Kota The Kundapur based victim, who was working in the same

Bajpe, July 2: Bajpe police nabbed a person for threatening a shopkeeper demanding hafta at Gurpur Kaikamba near here.The arrested is Gireesh (28), a local resident. According to police the accused entered 'Srinivas Enterprises' owned by K Shridhar Rao in Kaikamba and demanded hafta of Rs 2,000. Bajpe SI Anantha Murudeshwar arrested and produced the accused to the court.

Thrissur, July 2: The Cheraman Juma Masjid in Kodungallur, believed to be the country's first and oldest mosque, will soon be restored to its original form. Its management committee was giving final touches to a renovation project that would start in September, according to masjid president P.A. Mohammed Sayed. The 1400-year-old mosque was reconstructed many times to accommodate the increasing