Karnataka

Mangalore, June 21: Dakshina Kannada Deputy Commissioner NS Channappa Gowda has refused to intervene to stop the 'civic tiger'. The DC told the members of Beedhi Badi Vyaparasthara Horata Samiti, who met him at his office on Monday evening that he would discuss the issue of street vendors of the city whenever time permits. “But it is impossible to ask MCC to stop “civic tiger” from evicting street

Bantwal, June 21: Ismaeel Seranthimutt, Assistant Professor with Physics Department of MIT, Manipal has been selected to participate in the International Conference on Materials for Advanced Technologies (ICMAT-2011) at International Science Convention to be held at Singapore from June 26 to July 1. He will present his research thesis in the convention. A native of Vitla Seranthumutt in Bantwal

Kasargod, June 21: Chief Minister Oommen Chandy said here on Monday that Prime Minister Manmohan Singh would visit the endosulfan affected areas of the district. Addressing a meeting of officials and representatives of the people at the Collectorate conference hall here, the Chief Minister said when he visited Delhi last time he had apprised the Prime Minister of the problems caused by the

Udupi, June 21: Politicians today have stooped to such low that if you allege a politician of being corrupt, instead of denying the allegation levied against him he would point at the person who alleged him of being corrupt, said Lokayuktha Justice N Santhosh Hegde. He was interacting with the students at a programme organized by Balakedarara Vedike Udupi at Ambalpady Sri Janardana and Sri

Udupi, June 21: Higher Education Minister V.S. Acharya said on Monday that a mini Vidhana Soudha would be built in place of the present taluk office. He was speaking after laying the foundation stone for the construction of a Circuit House on the premises of the Inspection Bungalow. Dr. Acharya said the Sub-Registrar's office was in a bad shape. Hence, it would be shifted to the district treasury

Mumbai, June 21: Air India seems to have tampered with its pilots' flight roster to keep under wraps a crucial detail about the Mangalore plane crash that killed 158 people on May 22 last year. Capt Zlatko Glusica, who was commanding the flight that overshot the tabletop runway, was initially not rostered to operate the Mangalore-Dubai-Mangalore flight and it wasn't clear when he was informed

Mangalore, June 21: The counselling for admission for medical seats available under government quota began here on Monday at the Mangalore counselling centre set up at the Sahyadri College of Engineering. The day's proceedings were marred by a technical glitch that was corrected by afternoon, coordinator for the Mangalore CET centre Shruthakeerthiraja said. The software application that displayed

Mangalore, June 20: In a shocking incident, a 25-year-old woman employee of a Call Centre in Mphasis in the city was abducted by a group of five persons including her husband on Monday evening on the outskirts of the city. The abducted woman has been identified as Philomena Serrao, a resident of Kelarai. In incident occurred when she was on her way to Mphasis at around 2:30 pm. Yashavanth, the

Mangalore, June 20: Sanitation should be a matter of utmost prominence for all Gram Panchayats, said District-in-charge Minister Krishna J Palemar. He was speaking after inaugurating the Karnataka State Sanitation Award for 2009-10 ceremony organised under the joint auspices of State Water and Sanitary Mission, Department of Rural Development and Panchayat Raj and Dakshina Kannada Zilla Panchayat

Bhatkal, June 20: Confusion prevailed among the residents of Bhatkal town after the police launched door to door survey seeking details of the people and their credentials for the last one week. While the senior police officials referring this as a routine exercise towards crime prevention, the locals suspect something amiss as such exercise has been exclusively kept in the Muslim dominated areas