Karnataka

Mangalore, November 5: In praise of the service rendered by former Mangalore Airport Director M R Vasudeva, president of Kanara Chamber of Commerce Mohammed Ameen said that the standard had been high for his successor as the director of the newly designated International Airport of Karnataka. Speaking at a felicitation programme in honour of the former Airport Director jointly organised by

Manipal, November 5: Manipal University which has tie-ups with a number of overseas universities, broke ground in China last week signing agreements with Shanghai's Tongji and Tianjin Universities. A delegation from Manipal University comprising Vice Chancellor Dr K Ramnarayan, Registrar, Dr Gopalakrishna Prabhu and Honorary Director, UNESCO Peace Chair at Department of Geopolitics, Prof M.D

Mangalore, November 5: The members of Dakshina Kannada unit Karnataka Prantha Raitha Sangha (KPRS) courted arrest after they attempted to picket Mangalore Taluk Panchayat office here on Monday. They were protesting to press their demands such as provision of sites to those who do not have houses, title deeds to those who have constructed houses on government land without charging penalty and

Mangalore, November 5: Even though umpteen measures may be taken to prepare for emergencies, credit or criticism will be solely measured depending on the response system, said Inspector General of Police (Western Range) C H Pratap Reddy. Delivering the inaugural address of a training programme on Incident Response System conducted by the National Institute of Disaster Management, New Delhi, in

Bangalore, November 5: Three eminent Beay personalities- Hamza Malar, Ahmed Bava Bajal and Ismail Moodushedde- were presented with honorary awards of the Karnataka Beary Sahitya Academy for 2011. State Higher Education Minister C T Ravi conferred the awards at a function at the Raveendra Kalashetra here on Sunday. The award comprises a purse of Rs. 10,000 and citation each. The awardees have been

Mangalore, November 5: A mother went into labour and delivered a baby girl in a 108 ambulance near Bellare in Sullia on Saturday. The mother identified as Thayira (28) who was expecting her third child, was admitted to the Kadaba community hospital by her husband Mohammed Latif of Kalara in Kabada. Doctors on duty, suspecting that the delivery would be complex, advised him to shift his wife to the

Mangalore, November 5: Airports Authority of India has decided to upgrade the facilities at Mangalore and few other airports which acquired international status recently, a senior AAI official said. Recently, AAI sanctioned eight airports which will be made into international airports. Among these are airports like Mangalore, Agra, Bhubaneshwar, Coimbatore, Lucknow and even Varanasi. The reason

Mangalore, November 5: A least 10 people sustained injuries after a clash broke out between two groups of miscreants near Ullal Dargah on the outskirts of the city on Sunday evening. Police sources said that enmity between the devotees of two separate Dargahs led to the clash. They said that at around 4 p.m. two groups of men were embroiled in a heated argument after one group, supposedly from a

Mangalore, November 5: Seventeen students were handed student scholarships by the city unit of Jamiyyatul Falah at a programme held at Jamiyyatul Falah Hall here on Saturday. Already 23 students pursuing SSLC, PUC, degree and professional courses had been given student emolument. In the second round, 17 students were offered the same, totaling the amount to 40. Speaking on the occasion, NRI

Chikmagalur, November 4: The internal conflicts, dissidence and chaos in BJP is a result of the curse of Dattatreya, Pramod Muthalik, Chief of Sri Rama Sene, has said. Four years ago, 'Datta' sandals were taken off and kept in the district treasury in the pretext of repair of cave in Dattapeetha. Ever since, no pooja of 'Datta' sandals has taken place which and hence the BJP government is