Karnataka

Mangalore, May 3: A half-naked body of a Dalit woman, suspected to be a rape victim, was found in a private well behind a bus stop at Belvai village near Moodbidri on Wednesday. The body of 44-year-old Uma, wife of Chukuda, resident of Nadugudde, was also bearing several injury marks on her body, according to the eye witnesses. The villagers are of the suspicion that some miscreants may have raped

Mangalore, May 3: Educational activists and representatives of like-minded organisations have decided to appeal to the Chief Secretary and Commissioner of the State Education Department to relax the school admission time limit specified in the state circular in view of the recent developments taking place after the notification of RTE rules by the state government. In a meeting held in the city on

Mangalore, April 3: Second seeded Anurag Mhamal from Goa emerged as champion in the first United Karnataka Chess Association (UKCA) All India Open FIDE Rated Chess Tournament in the city on Wednesday. After a hard fought final round, Anurag was held to a draw by M KUnal of Tamil Nadu. The 17 year old boy had a tough fight with runner up Raghavendra V (Karnataka) and Akash V Thakur(Railways) who

Mangalore, April 3: The fifth indefinite hunger strike launched by Akhila Bharatiya Karmika Sangha (ABKS) in the city demanding the better facilities at ESI Hospital in the city has entered its second day on Thursday. Led by Sudatta Jain, the members of ABKS demanding the government to upgrade basic facilities for ESI Hospital which caters to the working class, staged an indefinite hunger strike

Udupi, May 3: Vishwesha Theertha Swamiji of Pejawar Mutt has one again asked the government to close down 1,200 MW coal-based thermal plant of Udupi Power Corporation Ltd or else take immediate steps to stop pollution caused by the plant. The swamiji told presspersons that the independent technical report submitted by two experts T.V. Ramachandra from Energy and Wetlands Research Group, Centre of

Mangalore, May 2: Activists and residents of Melakoppala and Athrebail on Wednesday laid siege of the Mangalore Special Economic Zone (MSEZ) office demanding removal of mud dumped along the Phalguni river near Kuloor and restore the ecosystem. The protest lasted four hours. The mud had been dumped along the river for the proposed road-cum-pipeline corridor, which will connect the Mangalore Special

Shimoga, May 3: Director-General and Inspector-General of Police A.R. Infant called upon officials of various departments to work with coordination to implement development works in naxal-affected regions. He was speaking at a programme organised here on Wednesday to handover various facilities under the naxal surrender and rehabilitation policy of the State Government to Krishna, a resident of

Karwar, May 3: For persons were killed on spot and many others sustained injuries when the lorry by which they were travelling hit the retaining wall of a bridge on National Highway 17, overturned and fell into a gorge near Mirjan village in Kumta taluk on Wednesday. The police gave the names of the victims as Riyaz (22) of Lakkundi, Jaibullah (46) of Gadag, and Basavaraj (42) and Gangavva (45) of

Karwar, May 3: Manzar Husain Sayed, an engineering graduate, has been appointed new administrator to the Uttara Kannada Wakf Advisory Committee by the Government on Wednesday. Mr. Sayed told presspersons that his priority was to survey the property of wakf board in the district and if any property was encroached upon by any person or organisation, it would be cleared. He would concentrate on the

Mangalore, May 2: Despite the ban imposed by the district administration on all types of manual scavenging, the manual cleaning of the underground drainage has continued unchecked in the city. A media sting operation on Wednesday revealed two workers getting into a UGD to clear the block in two separate manholes in front of Lady Goschen Hospital near Town Hall. However, when the photographers