Karnataka

Mangalore, June 26: A team of Mangalore City Corporation on Tuesday morning raided two prominent plastic manufacturing industries located at Baikampady Industrial Area in the city and seized huge quantity of prohibited plastic carry bags. The team comprising of Environmental Engineer Manjunath R Shetty, Madhu, Sanitation Inspectors Yashwanth, Santhosh, Sushanth, Poovappa, Karunakar and Babu

Mangalore, June 26: The Fishermen are the best 'eyes and ears' of the country when it comes to keeping a check on terrorism and sea crime, said R K Sharma, Commandant, Coast Guards. He was speaking at an interactive meet between the Coast Guards and fishermen community at Ullal on Tuesday. Stating that even if the total man-force of navy, Coast Guards and Coastal Police is put together it cannot

Mangalore, June 26: In order to create mass awareness regarding voluntary eye donation, a team of BJP Yuva Morcha activists from Mangalore South unit have embarked on a district-wide campaign under the banner of 'Kamala Jyothi'. The campaign kick started on the occasion of the death anniversary of Syama Prasad Mookerjee, the godfather of modern Hindutva and Hindu Nationalism, with 38 young

Mangalore, June 26: A 22-year-old motorcyclist was killed and his pillion rider was injured when their vehicle was hit by a speeding lorry near Kavoor junction on Monday evening. The Kavoor police said Dayanand (22) and his friend Chetan (23), a sales executive, were going towards Kavoor temple. The driver of the lorry, in his bid to overtake the two-wheeler, hit the motorcycle from behind

Riyadh, June 26: A Talapady-Uchila based expatriate worker died after collapsing in his room at Badia in Riyadh, the capital city of Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. The deceased is Hasainar (55). He was working in the oil rich nation for nearly 32 years. Sources said that he collapsed and died of cardiac arrest last Friday evening while he was making preparations to send home some goods through cargo

Mangalore, June 26: The Karnataka Minorities Development Corporation will be disbursing loan and subsidies under eight different schemes. However, not many applications have been received from Sullia taluk and Christians, pointed out Corporation President A N Aboobaker. Addressing a press meet, Aboobaker said that June 30 is the last date to receive applications. He also said that he shall take up

Udupi, June 26: Chairman of ICICI Bank K.V. Kamath has been selected for the K.K. Pai National Banking Award for 2012-13 in recognition of his outstanding contribution to banking development and his innovations in the field. In a press release issued here on Monday, secretary of K.K. Pai Trust, Ammannaya, said that Mr. Kamath's name was unanimously recommended for the award by the awards panel

Mangalore, June 26: A Muslim boy was allegedly assaulted by members of an organization for being with a girl belonging to Hindu community late on Sunday night. The boy from Bantwal and the girl, a call centre employee from Shaktinagar, were followed by a group of men, allegedly belonging to a local Hindu outfit, around 8 p.m. into a deserted spot where the Muslim boy was assaulted. The Mangalore

Udupi, June 25: In a brutal crime, a middle aged housewife was strangled to death by the miscreants, who tightening a choodidar shawl around her neck, at Gundyam, in Kemmannu village here on Monday. The deceased is Shakunthala (40), wife of Ashok Poojary, a nonresident Indian. The couple has two daughters studying in SSLC and PUC. They had had shifted to Gundyam from Badanidiyoor recently. The

Mangalore, June 25: The online counselling for CET rank holders was commenced on Monday at the Mangalore CET helpline centre set up at the silver jubilee auditorium of National Institute of Technology - Karnataka (NITK), on the outskirts of the city. The hectic process of verification of documents for rank number one onwards is expected to continue till July 11 at 13 Helpline Centres across the