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Mangaluru, Jan 7: HNGC Builders and Developers will be launching two new projects in Surathkal, the fastest growing suburb of Mangaluru. ˜Icon City', a commercial complex and'Icon Tower', a residential apartment will be launched on Thursday, January 8. Janab B S Ahmed will formally launch the project in the presence of dignitaries at 10 a.m. Dakshina Kannada MP Nalin Kumar Kateel will release the

Mangaluru, Jan 7: Even as the former union minister B Janardhana Poojary has warned against forming a Hindu outfit to strengthen the Congress party, a party activist from Dakshina Kannada has now sought high command's nod for the Bharatiya Hindu Parishat (BHP). Hemanath Shetty, the Puttur block Congress president, who has floated the BHP, as an alternative to the Vishwa Hindu Parishat (VHP), has

Mangaluru, Jan 7: In yet another embarrassing moment for Congress party in Karnataka, Legislative Assembly Speaker Kagodu Thimmappa has gone on to the extent of launching a scathing attack on veteran party leader and former union minister B Janardhana Poojary. Mr Poojary had earlier accused Mr Thimmappa of waging a war against the government, instead of carrying out the responsibilities of a

Jeddah, Jan 7: The Passport Department has announced that mandatory medical insurance for the dependents of expatriates living in the Kingdom would start on Jan. 21, with no residence permits issued or renewed for those failing to comply. In a statement on Tuesday, the department said the decision is based on Article 3 of the Council of Cooperative Health Insurance (CCHI) regulations, which would

Bengaluru, Jan 7: The State president of National Students' Union of India (NSUI), S V Siddaveer, who had attempted suicide by consuming poison on January 2, died at a private hospital in the early hours of Tuesday. The NSUI is the Congress' student wing. Siddaveer, 29, an active worker of the Congress party for nearly a decade, was a native of Kanakapura taluk in Ramanagara district. On January 2

Bengaluru, Jan 7: State Congress president G Parameshwara has reportedly asked all district and block party heads to submit reports on the style of functioning of the respective district in-charge ministers and party legislators. Parameshwara is learnt to have told the Karnataka Pradesh Congress Committee (KPCC) office bearers as well as district and block Congress presidents that the All India

Mangaluru, Jan 6: At the monthly SC/ST grievance meeting held at the office of Superintendent of Police here on Tuesday, few Dalit leaders raised complaints over the behaviour of a police sub-inspector. Dalit leader S P Anand said that the sub-inspector used abusive language towards a Dalit and had not taken action or responded to the complaint made by him. Meanwhile, few others in the meeting

Mangaluru, Jan 6: Almost two years after launching its maiden flight on Mangaluru-Damamm sector, the Air India Express is now all set to increase its operation between the two destinations from next summer season. Official sources from Air India Express have confirmed that the Dammam-Mangaluru-Calicut flight will operate thrice a week from April this year. Presently it is operating twice a week.

Mudigere, Jan 6: A fresh case of moral has been reported from Mudigere town in Chikkamagaluru district, wherein a group of miscreants assaulted a college student. The student was watching a movie with a girl from another community on Monday. When a group of youth belonging to the community of the girl came to know this they assaulted him. The incident created a tense situation in Mudigere. The

New Delhi, Jan 6: In a dramatic twist to the Sunanda Pushkar death case, the Delhi Police confirmed on Tuesaday that she was murdered, with the medical board calling her death 'unnatural'. According to Times Now reports Delhi Police commissioner BS Bassi has said that a case of murder will be registered soon. A year after the death of MP Shashi Tharoor's wife, the Medical Board said that her death