Karnataka

Udupi, Jan 3: An important road here will be named after Vishvesha Tirtha Swami, the chief pontiff of Pejawar Mutt, coinciding with the seer’s fifth Paryaya. The official announcement of the renaming of the road connecting Kalsanka to Vadiraja Road road will be made during the civic reception for the seer by the Udupi City Municipal Council (CMC) at Car Street at 7 p.m. on Monday. The ‘Horekanike’

Mysuru,?Jan 3: Prime Minister Narendra Modi has said that knowledge and information are the new ammunition in the new age and India’s sages had realised this thousands of years ago. Inaugurating the centenary celebrations of the late seer of Suttur mutt Shivaratri Rajendra Swami at Maharaja’s College grounds here on Saturday, the prime minister said that one cannot run a nation with just money and

Bengaluru, Jan 3: The Karnataka State Election Commissioner P N Sreenivasachary said on Saturday that the Zilla Panchayat (ZP) and Taluk Panchayat (TP) elections will be held across the State in a phased manner in February. Speaking to media persons here after a meeting with deputy commissioners, police chiefs and excise officials from the Belagavi Revenue Division, he said that election for ZP

Udupi, Jan 2: Parents sending their children to an anganwadi at Moodu Vaaltur were angry after worms were found in one of the rice bags supplied to the centre under Kavaradi Gram Panchayat limits in Kundapur taluk on Saturday. The date of packaging was mentioned on the bag as November 2015, and it had been supplied to the anganwadi centre in December. The parents immediately brought the matter to

Mangaluru, Jan 2: The five-day old strike by bullet tanker drivers at Katipalla, on the outskirts of the city appear to have ended with tankers transporting gas out of Mangalore LPG Import Facility being operated by Hindustan Petroleum Corporation Ltd., at Katipalla on Saturday. A HPCL official said that 360 loaded tankers transported the gas till evening on Saturday. As many tankers had already

Mangaluru, Jan 2: Tulu movie ‘Chandikori’ by Bolli Movies entered the 100th day of its screening on Saturday. Bolli Movies will celebrate at Town Hall on January 4, with the patronage of the people, said Director and Actor Devadas Kapikad. Briefing mediapersons on Saturday, he said that only a few of the 60-odd Tulu movies released have achieved this feat. All stakeholders of the movie will be

Mangaluru, Jan 2: As far as Yettinahole water diversion project is concerned both BJP government at the Centre and Congress government in Karnataka are trying to fool the people, accused former union minister B Janardhan Poojary. Speaking to media persons in the city on Saturday the Congress veteran said that on the one hand BJP leaders in coastal Karnataka led people’s march against Yettinahole

Riyadh, Jan 2: Saudi Arabia executed 47 prisoners convicted of terrorism charges today, including a Shiite cleric who was a central figure in 2011 Arab Spring-inspired protests in the kingdom. The killing of Sheikh Nimr al-Nimr may spark new unrest among Saudi Arabia's Shiite minority, largely concentrated in the kingdom's east, and in Bahrain, which has seen low-level violence since 2011 protests

Udupi, Jan 2: After a long delay the Udupi Power Corporation Ltd. (UPCL) has transferred Rs. 3.02 crore to the district administration to be given as compensation to 302 “Kairampani” or traditional seashore fishermen for the problems suffered by them during the laying of a pipeline for the thermal plant. Yellur Bharat Kumar, head of the Six Traditional Seashore Fishermen’s Associations, said that

Karkala, Jan 2: A man was arrested by the police on charge of sexually assaulting a bedridden woman in Karakala. The police gave the name of accused as Ganesh Nayak (36), a resident of Kukkundooru Kallabettu. He is a pick-up vehicle driver by profession. It is learnt that Nayak, father of a nine-year-old son, used to visit the home of bedridden woman claiming to be a social worker. He also