Karnataka

Mangalore, Feb 22: A total of 32 nominations have been submitted in Dakshina Kannada district on Thursday with regard to local body polls. Of the total, 21 nominations have been filed for Puttur Town Municipal Council elections alone. Party wise bifurcation shows that 21 nominations were field by Congress candidates, three from BJP, four from JD(S) and 3 were independent nominations. In Bantwal

Mangalore, Feb 22: Eligible voters can register and get their names enrolled in the voters' list for local body polls until Saturday, February 23. Ravichandra Nayak, Mangalore Tahshildar has said that eligible voters can register their names in the voters' list, either by logging on to ceokarnataka.nic.in or by getting in touch with the Mangalore One, Bangalore One, Karnataka One centres

Bangalore, Feb 22: Jailed People's Democratic Party (PDP) leader Abdul Nasir Ma'adani, who was undergoing treatment at the Soukya International Holistic Centre, was discharged Thursday afternoon. Mr. Ma'adani was been shifted back to the central jail at Parappana Agrahara in the evening. Jail superintendent Krishna Kumar said he was admitted to the hospital ward and would be under medication. “We

Udupi, Feb 22: Udupi Block Congress Committee has released the first list of candidates contesting for Udupi City Municipal Council polls to be held on March 7. Udupi Block Congress Committee president Pramodh Madhawaraj told media persons that the second list of the candidates will be out shortly. “Some BJP councilors had approached the Congress for the seat, however we are yet to take a decision

Bangalore, Feb 22: BJP?State president K?S?Eshwarappa on Thursday said the Congress party was indulging in a 'Operation Lotus'-like exercise, by directly making the BJP?MLAs resign. Eshwarappa, who is also the deputy chief minister, said, “The Congress earlier threatened Yeddyurappa by ordering the CBI probe against him. Out of fear, he quit the party and also made some BJP?MLAs resign and join

Moodbidri, Feb 21: A young television journalist from Dakshina Kannada district was killed in a tragic road accident occurred in Chikmagalur on Thursday. 23-year-old Sanath Rao, son of teacher couple Jayaram Bhat and Jyothi Bhat from Kadalakere, near Moodbidri, died on spot due to heavy bleeding when his motorbike met with an accident. Mr Rao was working with TV9 Kannada news channel as a reporter

Mangalore, Feb 21: 'Spandana – 2013', a two-day national-level student social workers' symposium on 'Convergence of Social work methods for social transformation' organised by Roshni Nilaya School of Social Work, Mangalore, was inaugurated in the college premises here on Thursday. The symposium was inaugurated by the chief guest in a unique way by cutting the ribbons which represented the 'chains

Bangalore, Feb 21: Ruling BJP suffered a fresh setback in poll-bound Karnataka with two more Ministers quitting the Jagadish Shettar cabinet today, amid indications that they would join the Congress. Forest Minister C P Yogeeshwara and Small Scale Industries Minister Rajugouda alias Narasimha Nayak tendered their resignations to the Chief Minister today. Earlier, they also met Governor H R

Mangalore, Feb 21: Promising young writer Wilma Lavina D'Souza, widely known as Wilma, Bantwal in Konkani literary circles, selected for Kittall Yuva Puroskar - 2012. Kittall Yuva Puroskar carries a cash prize of Rs 10,000 and a citation. The selection was made by the jury committee chaired by poet-thinker Titus Noronha comprised of Melvyn Rodrigues, Sahitya Academy awardee, Kavita Trust president

Sullia, Feb 21: A wild elephant, separated from its herd, ran amok killing a 45-year-old man near here. The deceased is Ramakrishna Bhat, a farmer. The incident took place on Wednesday night at Hosoli near Harihara-Pallathadka in Sullia taluk. Wildlife officials including ACF Dinesh and Ranger Subbaiah visited the spot. They said this is yet another case of elephants being forced to venture into