Karnataka

Mangalore, August 1: The Confederation of Real Estate and Developers' Associations of India (CREDAI) will organize the second Karnataka State level CREDAI Convention – STATECON 2012 on August 25 at TMA Pai International Convention Centre in Mangalore. Speaking at a press conference on Wednesday, here, Chairman of STATECON 2012, K.C. Naik said that the theme for the convention was 'Homes for All'

Mangalore, August 1: St. Aloysius College (Autonomous) will be offering a Post Graduate diploma course called Biotechnology Finishing School (BTFS) in two disciplines 'Plant Tissue Culture' and 'Fermentation and Bioprocessing from this year. Announcing this at a media conference here on Wednesday Fr. Swebert D'Silva, Principal of the College, said that BTFS was sponsored by Government of Karnataka

Mangalore, August 1: Victims of Saturday's homestay attack seem to be feeling the after-effects of the incident. A management college in Mangalore merely gave a verbal communication to a victim of the homestay attack that she will be barred from the internal third semester examinations slated to begin on Wednesday. Attempts by Express to get a response from the college on why she was barred from

Mangalore, August 1: A Mangalore City Corporation notice has been pasted at the entrance of the Morning Mist Home-stay, in Padil, where students celebrating a birthday party were attacked, stating that it is a residential building and does not possess license to carry out commercial activities. The notice dated July 30, signed by the MCC Health Officer, further states that the programmes such as

Kasaragod, August 1: In a major crackdown on Inter-State smuggling of Indian-Made Foreign Liquor ahead of the Onam season, the Excise team on Tuesday seized 414.720 litres of the brew from a car at Manya, near here. On a tip-off, a team of sleuths from the Excise Department, led by Inspector K. B. Binu, seized 2,304 bottles of 180 ML capacity each, kept in 48 boxes from the car. The car sped away

Mangalore, August 1: C Manjula, Chief of the Karnataka State Women's Commission on Wednesday inspected the site of the homestay in Mangalore where the assault on young girls and boys was carried out by Hindutva activists. Speaking to media persons later, she said that the Commission has already condemned the attack. “I have come here to hold and inspection and to seek answers as to why such

Mangalore, August 1: In a heart-wrenching incident, an animal caretaker at a Dr Shivaram Karanth Biological Park in Pilikula, on the outskirts of the city was fatally mauled by an ailing tiger on Tuesday night. The caretaker, Kushalappa Gowda, 36, who suffered severe wounds during the attack, breathed his last while being taken to hospital. This is first time that a caretaker has come under fatal

Mangalore, August 1: Three days after five girls and nine boys were attacked at a homestay by vigilantes, the parents of one of the girls have taken her to their native place in Gujarat. A friend of the victim said she had left for Gujarat and she may discontinue studies in Mangalore. Another female victim, who was slapped by one of the vigilantes, has suffered an injury in her ear drum. “Though

Bangalore / Mangalore, August 1: Home Minister R Ashoka on Tuesday said the State government will book the accused in the homestay attack case in Mangalore under the Goonda Act, and it will not show any mercy to anybody while taking action. In Mangalore, police arrested three more men in connection with the attack on students at a homestay in Padil on Saturday, taking the total number of arrested

Mangalore, August 1: Leaders and workers of Congress party, activists and representatives of various organisations and hundreds other on Wednesday paid their last respects to former District Youth Congress chief Bondala Jagannath Shetty in the city. People in large numbers turned up to pay their tribute to the late leader whose mortal remains were kept in front of District Congress Office, here