Karnataka

Mangalore, April 11: Eight activists of Popular Front of India have been acquitted of the charges of ransacking the office of a two prominent newspapers in the city in the year 2010. The third Additional District and Sessions Court exonerated all the eight accused from the case for lack of evidence. It can be recalled that a group of masked miscreants had stormed into the office of 'Kannada Prabha

Mangalore, April 11: Unidentified thieves broke into a house and decamped with with valuables worth Rs. 2 lakh at Tallur village near Kundapur. According to police, thieves gained entry into the house of Arun Mendonca at Tallur between 5 a.m. on April 7 and 4 a.m. on April 10. They made good with gold ornaments, whose value is estimated at Rs. 2 lakh and cash Rs. 3,000. A case had been registered

Mangalore, April 11: The Department of Environment and Ecology has issued a notice to the Mangalore Special Economic Zone Limited (MSEZL) asking it to remove the mud it has dumped in the Phalguni River. Over the last two months, the MSEZL had been dumping mud for a stretch of around 1 km along the Phalguni river to widen the KIOCL-Jokatte railway gate road for a special road-cum-pipeline corridor

Mangalore, April 10: Dozens of students of a prestigious private college on the outskirts of the city on Tuesday evening staged protest on their college premises, alleging that relentless harassment by a lecturer of the institution drove a female engineering student, Mehnaaz, to her death. Mehnaaz, 20, a student of BE second year (biotechnology batch) at the PA College of Engineering, near here

Mangalore, April 10: Privatisation of water is financially imprudent, ecologically unsustainable and socially unjust and a strong public opposition is required in Mangalore as authorities have planned to implement it in the coastal city, said Kshitij Raj Urs, Karnataka People's Campaign for Right to Water. He was speaking at a discussion organized by Citizens' Forum for Development, Mangalore, at

Mangalore, April 10: The Summer Camp on Golf Coaching for Children got underway on Monday at Pilikula near here. The camp is being organised by Corporation Bank in association with Pilkula Golf Club. Inaugurating the Camp, Ajai Kumar, Chairman and Managing Director, Corporation Bank, said playing Golf does not only provide physical exercise but it also improves concentration. The game helps the

Mangalore, April 10: Compared to certain other banks, retired officers of Canara Bank get lesser medical facilities, said B.S. Hegde, Chairman, Reception Committee, VIII Biennial Conference, of the Canara Bank Retired Officers' Association (CBROA), Mangalore. He was speaking to media persons on the initial day of the two-day meeting, which began in the city on Monday. “There are many anomalies,”

Mangalore, April 10: Dakshina Kannada Zilla Kannada Sahitya Parishat President Pradeep Kumar Kalkura was conferred with 'best social worker' award at the 29th national Kannada conference recently organized by New Delhi based 'Dehali Kannadiga' magazine. Prof B Hanumaiah, the Vice Chancellor of Babasaheb Bhimrao Ambedkar Universit, presided over the conference held at Delhi Karnataka Sangha

Mangalore, April 10: The activists of the Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad on Tuesday staged a protest here against the Karnataka Government for increasing the fee structure for engineering, medical and dental courses. The protesters, who were demanding the immediate withdrawal of hike in admission fee for the professional courses, formed a human chain at KPT Circle in the city, which led to

Mangalore, April 10: Supporters of Sarvottam Anchan who is contesting the Kannada Sahitya Parishad presidential elections, have alleged that rival candidate and President of the Parishad for the past 10 years Pradeep Kumar Kalkura has been acting as a dictating authority which is dangerous for Kannada and Kannada literature. Speaking to mediapersons at a press meet in Mangalore on Tuesday, MG