Karnataka

Mangalore, March 20: Working towards strengthening the relationship between people of different faiths and establishing communal harmony is the need of the hour, said Mangalore MLA UT Khader. He was speaking at the Talent Milad Awards ceremony organised under the auspices of Talent Research Foundation, a city based philanthropic organisation at Town Hall here on Sunday. As many as 92 achievers

Bantwal, March 20: Four persons have been arrested and remanded to judicial custody in connection with the murder of Badruddin in Ramalkatte on March 15. The accused are Ganesh Poojary (49), his son Kishan (19), relatives Pravin (23) and Jeevan (21), residents of Bondel, Mangalore. Police, who are investigating the case, said the accused killed Badruddin because of his affair with the daughter of

Mangalore, March 20: Dr. Vedavyas Srinivas Acharya, State Minister for Higher Education, has urged the media to be positive, factual and a catalyst for development. He was addressing media persons at Press Club here on Sunday after presenting 'Pa Go Memorial Award 2010' to Laxmi Machina, a journalist with Udayavani daily, Belthangady. The award, instituted by the Dakshina Kannada Working

Mangalore, March 20: Justice K.S. Hegde Institute of Management, Nitte emerged overall champions at 'Verve 2011', the B-School meet organised by the MBA dept of AIMIT, St Aloysius College, Mangalore. The MBA team from St Joseph's Engineering College, Vamanjoor were the Runners up. The valedictory ceremony was held at the College Auditorium. Allen Ben Pinto, Student Co-ordinator Verve 2011 welcomed

Mumbai/ Malpe, March 20: A Malpe based entrepreneur in Mumbai was shot dead when unidentified persons fired at him in suburban Goregaon on Saturday. The deceased has been identified as Angara Pujari, owner of a cake shop. According to police, the shooter shot at Angara Pujari from a close range at his Monginis cake shop in the suburb. The shooter was overpowered by a passersby before he could

Dakshina Kannada ZP President KT Shailaja, Vice President Dhanalaxmi Janardan, CEO P Shivashankar and others received the award. Mangalore, March 20: Hosangadi village in Dakshina Kannada on Saturday received the sanitation award in Bangalore, instituted as part of the Total Sanitation Campaign, at the gram panchayat level. Conferring the 'Nairmalya Ratna' and 'Swarna Nairmalya' awards, Chief

Mangalore, March 20: As part of its ongoing campaign seeking sites for the houseless poor and seeking implementation of House Rent Control Act, Dakshina Kannada unit of Democratic Youth Federation of India (DYFI) held a ward meeting of people without housing sites at Kannur on Saturday. Muneer Katipalla, District unit President of DYFI said the organization would continue its agitation till such

Mangalore, March 20: The personality of the writer plays a significant role in writing the literary works, as the words clearly reflect the writer's attitude. If a writer holds an unpleasant attitude, then it weakens his work, said the popular Kannada story writer Vasudhendra. In his inaugural address at the 7th Vidhyarti Sahitya Sammelana jointly organised by the Old Students' Association of

Uppinangady, March 19: The secretary of the Karnataka Pre University Education Board, Kumar Naik, paid a surprise visit to the PUC College here when examination for the second PUC was under way. He reviewed the arrangements made for the examination and told the waiting media outside the premises that the second PUC examinations were going on smoothly and there was no confusion or chaos anywhere in

Uppinangady, March 19: Karnataka State Raitha Sangha and Hasiru Sene on Saturday demanded the waiver of loans secured by areca formers since they have been adversely affected by decline in prices, fall in crop volume due to yellow disease over the last 10 years. A resolution to this effect was passed at the meeting held at Uppinangady, which urged the government to respond to the plight of areca