Karnataka

Mangalore, August 29: As many as 289 houses have been damaged in Dakshina Kannada district up to Tuesday following the onset of South-West monsoon and compensation amount of Rs 7.54 lakh has been provided to the affected families. In Mangalore taluk, 64 houses have been damaged and compensation amount of Rs 1.43 lakh paid. Compensation has to be paid to 10 families whose houses were damaged in

Mangalore, August 28: All necessary arrangements will be made for Hajj pilgrims arriving from Chikmagalur and Hassan districts to stay at Mangalore Airport's cargo terminal, said newly elected president of Karnataka State Hajj Committee M.M. Ahmed. He was speaking to media persons after offering prayers at Syed Madani Dargah at Ullal, near here on Tuesday. Mr Ahmed said that each pilgrim would be

Udupi: The Udupi City Municipal Council has resolved to impose a ban on use of all kinds of plastic bags in its limits from September 15. Presiding over the general body meeting of the CMC here on Tuesday, CMC President Kiran Kumar pressed for the ban saying CMC has every right to impose the ban as the similar ban had already been implemented in cities like Mysore, Ooty which had higher rate of

Udupi, August 29: Three people lost their lives in three separate rain related tragedies reported from three different places on Tuesday. In the first incident, a 61-year-old man, who went to collect coconuts from his garden in the rain, accidentally slipped into a pond and drowned at Matapady village near Brahmavar on Tuesday. According to the police, Anand Rama had gone to pick coconuts which

Karkala, August 29: In a tragic incident, a 25-year-old worker fell to death from the second floor of a building under construction at Banglegudde in Karkala on Tuesday. The deceased has been identified Raghavendra Acharya, who who was doing centring work during the incident. According to the police, a severely injured Acharya was rushed to a local nursing home and subsequently to Adarsh Hospital

Mangalore, August 29: A local court has rejected the bail petitions of 17 persons arrested in the July 28 Padil Morning Mist Home Stay attack case. The first additional district and session's court will pronounce on August 31 the order on the bail petitions of three other accused. Main accused Subash Padil and co-accused Ganesh haven't moved the court for bail. The 17 whose bail petitions were

Mangalore, August 28: H Pattabhirama Somayaji, English Lecturer at University College, Mangalore, said that people should consider what the Indian Constitution said rather than thinking along the lines of communal divide. Speaking at an Eid Milan programme organised by Popular Front of India (PFI) on Tuesday at St Aloysius College Auditorium, he said that the Sangh Parivar had a unique way of

Kasargod, August 28: A woman was killed when an LPG tanker lorry burst into flames after an accident and set her house nearby on fire near the Chala temple, six km from Kannur, police said on Tuesday. Thirty-four people were injured in the accident. The incident occurred when the lorry carrying liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) overturned after hitting a divider around 11.30 pm on Monday. While the

Bantwal, August 28: In a distressing incident, a school girl allegedly committed suicide by jumping off a bridge into the Nethravathi River at Goodinabali near Pane Mangalore on Monday. The drowned student has not yet been identified. However she is suspected to be Sonali Patel (16), a resident of Haradi near Puttur, who went missing after school on Monday. But, so far there has been no

Mangalore, August 28: Dr B R Ambedkar Prathishthana would adopt the backward village of Koyyur in Belthangady taluk for a period of five years and develop it into a model village, according to Prathishthana state president Shivappa Renkadaguthu. Announcing this at a media conference here on Tuesday, Mr Renkadaguthu said that as part of the mission the Prathishthana would provide free electricity