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Mangaluru, Aug 29: U T Khader, Minister for Urban Development, Housing and Dakshina Kannada district in-charge today inaugurated 13 completed projects and laid foundation stones for 27 new projects totally costing Rs. 472.41 crore. The 13 completed projects have cost around Rs 12 crore while 27 projects would be taken up at an estimated cost of Rs 451 crore. The completed projects include a public

Mangaluru, Aug 29: Mangaluru’s historic Town Hall was today formally named after social reformer Kudmul Ranga Rao, who had worked for the welfare of the downtrodden in the coastal district. U T Khader, Minister for Urban Development, Housing and Dakshina Kannada district in-charge, launched the new name ‘Kudmul Ranga Rao Purabhavana’ at a programme organised by the Mangaluru City Corporation at

Manipal, Aug 29: India’s foreign policy is geared around security and prosperity of its own people and of people in other countries across the world, according to M J Akbar, Union Minister of State for External Affairs. The journalist turned politician was delivering a public lecture on “India’s foreign policy in the 21st Century” organised by the Department of Geopolitics and International

Bantwal, Aug 29: The police have arrested a person on charge of assaulting a woman and fleeing away with her valuables at Modankap in Bantwal taluk. The accused has been identified as Praveen K G, who hails from Teerthahalli. The police have recovered gold valued at Rs 75,000 from the accused. Police said that Praveen K G along with another person barged into the house of Janardhana Holla, when

Mangaluru, Aug 29: Stating that the capital of Karnataka has already reached the saturation level of industrialisation, chief minister H D Kumaraswamy has vowed to take necessary steps to set up more industries in Tier-II cities like Mangaluru. “It is time to impose restrictions on setting up of new industries in Bengaluru as the city is facing too much pressure. My intention is to incentivise

Bengaluru, Aug 29: In a shocking incident, a youth gouged out his father’s eye with a set of car keys after a clash over a property dispute yesterday in the city. The accused Abhishek Chethan (35) was arrested by the police while his father S S Parameshwar was admitted a hospital after the coldblooded attack. According to police the son had been pressuring his father to sign over a property in JP

Mangaluru, Aug 28: BJP leader and Union Minister for Statistics and Programme Implementation D V Sadananda Gowda has predicted that chief minister H D Kumaraswamy led Congress-JD(S) coalition government of Karnataka would collapse on its own within a month. Speaking to reporters, Mr. Gowda said the Congress and the Janata Dal (Secular) have formed the coalition government not in the interest of

Newsroom, Aug 28: Internationally acclaimed Indian writer Arundhati Roy has termed the current situation “more dangerous” that it was at the time of Emergency imposed by former Prime Minister Indira Gandhi. The comments comes after the Pune police raided the houses of nearly a dozen leading civil rights activists across the country and arrested at least five of them over allegations of Maoist

Shimla, Aug 28: A 46-year-old trekker from Bengaluru has been missing in Himachal Pradesh's tribal Kinnaur district since July 25, a district official said today. Earlier in the day, a body found in Nichar tehsil of the district was thought to be of the missing trekker, Satya Narayan, he said. However, the body was later found to be of someone else, the official added. He said efforts were on to

New Delhi, Aug 28: The United Arab Emirates (UAE) has adopted a powerful stance in empowering women, setting new standards based on a model drawn from the vision of founding father of the Arab country, late Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan. This approach perpetuates in the current leadership's vision for the future, whereby women stand as active partners and contributors in the country's