On November 11 every year, India celebrates the National Education Day to commemorate the birth anniversary of Maulana Abul Kalam Azad, a prominent freedom fighter and first education minister of independent India, who played a crucial role in synthesizing Muslims and Hindus of the country by exposing the divide-and-rule policy of the British. In the independent country, the focus on education was...
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"Relentlessly chase your dreams. Think out of the box. Work in a way that success follows you through your actions. Work hard. Work silent." Wording and trotting along these lines is Prof. Dr Priyanka P.V, who went on to become an icon in the area of teaching. Being a passionate educationist, professor, mentor and a guide, she set a mission to impart education to MBA students. In fact, it was her...
Udupi, Oct 21: The huge demand for adventure sports among youth in the district has prompted the state government to make Manna Palla Lake in Manipal a hub of aerosports and aquasports. The lake comprises 60 acres of water with 40 acres of land surrounding it. According to district in-charge minister Pramod Madhwaraj, the sports department is ready to spend Rs 2 crore to promote adventure sports...
The Hajj operations from Mangaluru and a few other Indian airports are likely to be stopped, at least temporarily, as a fresh Hajj Policy drafted by a ministry of minority affairs committee has explicitly recommended reducing the embarkation points for the pilgrimage from 21 to nine. The five-member panel appointed by the by the Prime Minister Narendra Modi-led union government to draft a new...
Mangaluru, Oct 4: A controversial voice message by the leader of one of the coastal Karnataka-based Salafi groups has sent shockwaves in the region after local media gave massive coverage to the 11-minute clip in which the speaker apparently discouraged his followers from joining another Salafi splinter group and claimed that its members dress like ‘ISIS’ terrorists. The audio clip, which contains...
Mangaluru: Even though Mangaluru International Airport (MIA) director V V Rao has rubbished the possibilities of losing passengers to Kerala’s fourth international airport, which is expected to be commissioned within a few months, his counterpart at Kannur International Airport Ltd (KIAL) has spelt out a greater competition. If everything goes as expected commercial operations at Kannur Airport...
King Salman’s recent decree that grants driving licenses to women in Saudi Arabia may snuff out the livelihoods of tens of thousands of NRI ‘house drivers,’ including those from Karnataka and Kerala. The royal order will officially come into force from Shawwal 10, 1439, corresponding to June 24, 2018. Even though the international media hailed the decree as a great “social reform”, for the Saudi...
In what could open up air transport opportunities in Udupi district, a private company has proposed an investment to the tune of Rs 500 crore for the construction of an airport in Byndoor taluk. If the state government and Airport Authority of India (AAI) come forward with a positive response and sufficient land, the establishment of an airport can be facilitated in the next few years. Meanwhile...
Bengaluru: Less than two months after the Income Tax department’s marathon raids on the premises of Congress leader D K Shivakumar, another tycoon from Karnataka has fallen prey to the central government’s powerful agency. Non-NDA political parties often accuse Prime Minister Narendra Modi-led government of using I-T department and Central Bureau of Investigation for political vendetta...
Mangaluru, Sept 15: The activist of Aam Aadmi Party have threatened to launch a legal battle against Mangaluru City Corporation for failing to shift the utility lines before concretizing the roads in the city. Backed by AAP, the members MCC Civic Group, an action committee of people on civic issues in the city, staged a protest at Bendor on Thursday against civic body taking up a road development...