Karnataka

Mangalore, April 18: Hindustan Petroleum Corporation Limited (HPCL) handed over two classrooms, administrative office and a toilet complex to Harkala Newpadpu Zilla Panchayat Samyuktha High School, more popularly known as Hajabba's school. HPCL chief manager Krishna Kutti inaugurated the new building and handed over it to school Development and Monitoring Committee working president Harekala

Mangalore, April 18: The Common Entrance Test (CET), earlier scheduled for May 3 and 4, will now be held almost three weeks later, on May 21 and 22. The Karnataka Examinations Authority (KEA) announced here on Tuesday that a change in the schedule of the examination was inevitable because of the four-day boycott of evaluation of answer scripts by PU lecturers. The boycott was lifted only on Monday

Mangalore, April 17: Yemmekere Friends Circle (YFC) will organise 'Late B Narayana Karkera memorial YFC state-level under arm day and night cricket tournament' at Yemmekere ground near Bolar here from April 20 to 22. Annoucing this at a press Y Abdul Salam, Working president of YFC said that around 30 teams were expected to take part in this eight-over tourney. He said winners in the tourney would

Mangalore, April 17: Expressing concern over the decline in number of females in the district State Child Rights Protection Commission President Nina Nayak said that there is a need to keep an eye on how the scanning machines are used in various hospitals and at the scanning centres. Holding a meeting with child rights activists, NGOs working in field of education and the government officials, in

Mangalore, April 17: The Mangalore City Corporation carried out a drive to remove all the illegal cut-outs in the heart of the City on Tuesday. MCC Commissioner Harish Kumar said that the illegal cut-outs were removed from different parts of the city as part of the clean-up drive launched by Dakshina Kannada Deputy Commissioner N S Channappa Gowda. He said the process on Tuesday was started from

Udupi, April 17: A young couple committed suicide by jumping in to the River Shambavi near Hejamadi in Udupi district on Monday night. The deceased have been identified as Vanitha (19) and Dinesh (18). It is learnt that both were relatives to each other and said to be in love. Vanitha had eloped with Dinesh a three days back from her residence in Kanchinadka. Dinesh was resident of Yermal near

Mangalore, April 17: Vittala Malekudiya, who is in judicial custody on charges of being an alleged Naxal sympathizer, on Tuesday appeared for second semester internal assessment examination conducted by the Mass Communication and Journalism Department of Mangalore University. The 22-year-old student, who was arrested on March 3 along with his father at his house in Kuthlur in Belthangady taluk by

Mangalore, April 18: Deputy Commissioner Dr N S Channappa Gowda promised to allot a piece of land for Prajna Counselling Centre at the earliest. The announcement is likely to give a fillip to the centres activities. Speaking after inaugurating silver jubilee celebrations of Prajna Counselling Centre here on Tuesday, he said “all of us should take a pledge to support the destitutes and orphans in

Mangalore, April 17: The workers employed on contract basis by Mangalore Electricity Supply Company (Mescom) have launched in indefinite protest demanding the fulfillment of their various demands. Dozens of workers under the banner of Mescom Nonpermanent Employees Association, an affiliate of CITU, sat in front of the Mescom head office in the city on Tuesday morning pledging to continue the fight

Mangalore, April 17: The father of a girl student at PA College of Engineering, who allegedly committed suicide last week, has decided not to rest until he gets justice for his deceased daughter. Mehnaaz, the eldest daughter of Kulai based Mohammed Ali and Mumtaz couple, had committed suicide by hanging herself at the college hostel on April 10. She was a second year student engineering student