Karnataka

Mangaluru, Dec 15: Karnataka Beary Sahitya Academy on Monday announced the list of honorary awardees and recipients of awards for the year 2014. These awards would be conferred to the recipients at an award ceremony held by the Academy, in cooperation with Chikmagalur District Beary Okkoota, in Chikmagalur on January 10. Briefing mediapersons at a press conference here on Monday, Beary Sahitya

Mumbai, Dec 15: The state consumer commission last week directed a builder to pay a compensation of Rs 13.50 lakh to a Jogeshwari couple for a five-year delay in handing over possession of a flat in Thane. The couple has paid more than 95% of the flat's price of Rs 30 lakh. The commission also directed the builder and developer Ganaraj Group to hand over the flat within 45 days failing which Rs 1

Mangaluru, Dec 15: The Karnataka High Court on Monday lifted the ban on Kambala sport (Buffalo Race) in Dakshina Kannada District. According to the HC, the Kambala sport needs to be held in the presence of Tehsildar and the police inspector of the jurisdiction. The Karnataka HC also gave instructions to the authorities to prevent all kinds of cruelty meted out to the animals. Earlier, the Kambala

Lucknow, Dec 15: The Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP) Monday announced its plan to organise a 'Ghar Wapasi' (home coming) programme in Rae Bareli, Congress president Sonia Gandhi's parliamentary constituency. VHP's Rae Bareli district unit chief Harish Chandra Sharma said the saffron group has identified 60 families who were ready for 'home coming'. There was no allurement or coercion in the process

Mangaluru, Dec 15: Center for Health and Development (CHD-India) partnered with the Public Health Foundation of Bangladesh to advance conversations in health. The Memorandum of Understanding was signed recently at Dhaka, Bangladesh. Dr Edmond Fernandes, CEO, Center for Health and Development signed the MoU in Dhaka with Dr Sharmeen Yasmeen, CEO, Public Health Foundation of Bangladesh. Members of

Mangaluru, Dec 15: œEducation has now been commercialized. Earlier, children were sent to schools and madrasas to gain knowledge. Today, materialism is being given more importance than education,  lamented former Karnataka education minister B A Moideen. He was speaking at the launch of 'Shikshana-Tarabeti Kale' a Kannada book on art of educational training published by city based Shanthi

Udupi, Dec 15: Three men fell to their deaths in separate but similar tragedies in different parts of Udupi district on Sunday. A 32-year-old person died after he slipped into a well at Senapura in Gangolli on Sunday. Police said, Nagesh Naik fell into the well, while he was dropping the pump-set deep inside the well. A case has been registered in Gangolli police station. In the second incident, a

Bengaluru: Dec 15: The Union Cabinet will take a decision on the feasibility of enacting a law to curb conversions after collecting the opinion of religious leaders, legal luminaries, experts and other stakeholders, said Union Minister for Law D?V?Sadananda Gowda. With regards to the œconversion by inducement  of Muslims in Agra, which has rocked the on-going session of the Parliament, Gowda said

Bengaluru: Dec 15: Chief Minister Siddaramaiah?cancelled his visit to Dakshina Kannada at the last minute on?Sunday after apparently receiving reports that several organisations in the coastal district were planning to hold protests opposing the implementation of the Netravathi river diversion project. Siddaramaiah was scheduled to inaugurate a new library computer centre at Sathya Sai Vihar in

Jeddah, Dec 15:The Kingdom has intensified its campaign against foreigners working illegally in the country, with thousands of violators nabbed across the Kingdom in over a month. From agriculture businesses to jewelry shops, law enforcement agencies are conducting inspections and apprehending workers in a wide range of trades. Expats working for more than one sponsor are the majority of those