Karnataka

Mangalore, February 18: The Vishwa Hindu Parishat (VHP), Bajrang Dal and Maruti Seva Samiti will organise a mass marriage ceremony at Mosaru Kudike Katte of Attavar on Sunday, February 20 at 4 pm. Addressing the media persons at Press Club here on Friday, Jagadish Shenava, VHP leader said that as many as 12 couples will tie the knots on the occasion. The brides will get 'Mangalsuthra' of one pawan

Mangalore, February 18: Duleep Mendis, Former Captain of the Sri Lankan team and CEO of Sri Lanka Cricket will be in the city on Saturday to inaugurate the indoor sports complex 'Yendurance Zone' of Yenepoya University at its premises in Deralakatte near here. Farhad Yenepoya Kunhi told media persons at Press Club here on Friday that the complex is 34,000 sq ft in area and has a seating capacity

Mangalore, February 18: A woman along with the support of her son killed her daughter-in-law in a fit of rage at Apperipade village in Vittal Kasba Hobli of Bantwal taluk near here and surrendered herself at a police station on Thursday. The victim Saraswathi (27) breathed her last on the spot after being fatally attacked by her mother-in-law with a sickle. Her body bore more than 20 injuries

Mangalore, February 18: Within one hour, more than a thousand people voted against the name “IndiCommandos” for the Kerala IPL cricket team on Facebook on Wednesday. By Thursday, the number increased to 3,000. Group Jacob Joseph Puthenparambil, a publisher of trade journals, who started the group on Facebook, said: “Yes, 500 people supported (the page) in less than 30 minutes and about 1,300 in

Mangalore, February 18: Jeppinamogaru ward Congress and Youth Congress in association with AJ Institute of Medical Sciences have organised free medical checkup camp at the auditorium of Ballyaya Mahajana Sangha near Adimaye Temple road recently. Local corporator J Nagendra Kumar inaugurated while Ivan D'Souza, Congress leader presided over the programme. Dr Kavitha Ivan D'Souza, Associate

Mangalore, February 18: A team of officials from Southern Railway said on Thursday that the overpass across national highway 17 at Baikampady was weak and posed danger to its users. At a meeting here, they refused to take up the responsibility of maintaining the overpass stating that it was neither constructed by Southern Railway nor owned by it. However, S.K. Raina, Divisional Railway Manager of

Moodbidri, February 17: Renowned spiritual guru and founder of the Art of Living Sri Sri Ravi Shankar on Thursday openly condemned the practice of 'Made Snana' a Hindu religious ritual, saying that it is a callous system. He was interacting with a group of dignitaries including officials, elected representatives and journalists at Anandamaya Resort at Shobha Vana in Moodbidri. Mr Ravi Shankar

Udupi, February 17: Lokayukta Santhosh Hegde has said that the progress achieved in the rehabilitation of flood-affected people in Northern Karnataka is only 10 to 20 percent. He said that the inquiry assigned to the Lokayuktha on the Mining Scam and the KIADB scam would be completed in another five months. Replying to another question from the media he said though there are only 1.2 crore BPL

Udupi, February 17: Lokayukta Justice N Santhosh Hegde on Thursday called upon the students to excommunicate the corrupt in the society. He was speaking after inaugurating M-Battled, the state level inter-collegiate Commerce, Management and Cultural Fest organized by the Department of Commerce, Milagres College, Kallianpur. He advised the people to change their attitude towards the people who earn

Mangalore, February 17: Dharmadhikari of the Sri Kshetra Dharmasthala Dr D Veerendra Heggade was given a warm felicitation by Yoga Federation of India (YFI) on Thursday at the a function in Dharmasthala near here. The felicitation comes ahead of the 36th National Yoga Championship 2011. The officials of the NFI also handed over the logo of upcoming event to Dr Heggadde. Speaking on the occasion