Karnataka

Mangalore, July 1: A group of activists protesting for the rights of street-venders near City Bus terminus here on Friday were briefly arrested by the city police, to felicitate the civic tiger squad to continue its eviction drive. Leftist activists Sunil Kumar Bajal, Vasanth Achary, Imthiyaz and seven others, who tried to stop the civic tiger at around 11:30 a.m. were dragged by the police to the

Mangalore, July 1: Introspection, commitment and media-satisfaction should be the main characters of a journalist and, since journalists represent the people in the society, they should have moral responsibility, said Narendra Rai Derla, Lecturer, Shivaram Karanth Memorial First Grade College, Bellare. He was delivering a talk on “Development Journalism” at a programme jointly organised by

Mangalore, July 1: In a gruesome incident, a 12-year old Dalit girl was allegedly raped on the outskirts of the city by two persons including an auto-rickshaw driver, who has been identified as Manjoj Shetty (35), a resident of Sunkadakatte.The incident, which took place last week, came to light very lately as the victim, who is a resident of Kompadavu village, initially hesitated to reveal it to

Mangalore, July 1: The Mangalore City Corporation has acquired 7.23 acres of land at a cost of Rs 7.5 crore for the construction of private bus stand in Pumpwell and the rest of the land will be acquired soon. The project does not aim at building a bus stand or a bus stop, but the Mangalore City Corporation has planned to develop it as a transportation hub. Replying to many queries of the

Mangalore, July 1: An expert committee must be constituted to provide alternative arrangement for the street vendors who have been evicted by the Mangalore City Corporation, said Corporator Appi. Speaking after inaugurating a protest organised by the Beedibadi Vyaparigala Horata Samithi, in front of Mangalore City Corporation building, she urged the MCC to stop Civic Tiger operation against street

Udupi, July 1: A 16-year-old girl was molested and sexually harassed by two drivers of a Tamil Nadu State Transport bus in which she was travelling from Sathyamangalam to Nitte near Karkala, on Wednesday night. The girl, along with her younger brother, boarded the Coimbatore Kollur Tamil Nadu State Transport bus at Sathyamangalam on Thursday evening. The duo were proceeding to Nitte, where their

Udupi, Jun 30: Lokayukta Police in Udupi on Thursday caught a village accountant red-handed while receiving a bribe of Rs 1000. Narayana Poojary, village accountant of Parkala, had demanded a bribe of Rs 1,000 from one Anil Kumar for converting 9 cents of land in Herga village for residential purposes. The village accountant had been postponing the conversion of land quoting silly reasons of rains

Mangalore, June 30: P Tamilvanan, Chairman, New Mangalore Port Trust has been conferred Doctor of Philosophy in Economics by the Department of Economics, Bharathiar University, Coimbatore for the thesis submitted on “A Study of Major Ports of India: An Analysis of Operational and Financial Performance during 1985-86 to 2008-09” under the guidance of Dr RS Dhananjayan, Professor and Head (Retd.)

Mangalore, June 30: Even though the phenomenon of paid news and corruption scrolled into the field of media several years ago, the growing bond between politicians and journalists in recent years has resulted in the disappearance of honesty in the journalism, lamented senior journalist Dinesh Amin Mattu. He was presenting his views on media and corruption at a seminar and interaction programme

Mangalore, June 30: A corpse of a whale measuring an estimated 22 feet in length has been found lying on the coast of Thannirbavi near here on Thursday. The body of the whale was decayed partially and it is yet to be ascertained as the cause of its death, and its age. The masses of people are coming down to the beach to view the lifeless sea creature; despite the fact the corpse is emitting a very