Karnataka

Mangalore, July 24: Lion J Krishnananda Rao, District Governor 2010-2011 was conferred with the Lions Golden Supreme Excellence Award, during 'Annual District Award Nite' organised by Lions Club International, District 324 D5, at Loyola Hall here on Sunday. After receiving the award, Lion Rao recalled the services provided by the members of the Lion's club in the year 2010-2011. “The Club had

Mangalore, July 24: Sarvothama Pai, Superintendent of Police of Civil Rights Enforcement (CRE) Cell said that the members of SC/ST community do not have awareness on daily bata given to complainants and witnesses deposing in the court pertaining to the cases of SC/ST Prevention of Atrocities Act. Addressing at SC/ST grievance meet organised by the City Police Commissionerate at its auditorium here

Mangalore, July 24: “Please…please… please don't ask me anything. This is not proper time to speak anything,” This was the response of Karnataka BJP President K S Eshwarappa to the questions posed before him over the crisis that gripped the state politics, following the leakage of Lokayukta report on illegal mining. Mr Eshwarappa, who visited the city on Sunday along with party's State General

Mangalore, July 24: Around 220 girls and boys pursuing PUC, graduation and post-graduation courses shared a sum of Rs 12 lakh of scholarship distributed by Dubai based 'Bearys Cultural Forum' at Loyola Hall on the premises of St Aloysius Pre University College here on Sunday. After handing over the scholarship envelops to the students gathered at the 'BCF Educational Scholarship Meet-Mangalore

Kannur, July 24: The mysterious death of Chemibirikka-Mangalore Qazi CM Abdulla Moulavi was suicide, suggests the CBI report after 11 months of investigation. A report was last day submitted before the Chennai area Joint Director of the CBI, according to reports. The local police that investigated the case initially and the Crime Branch which investigated for six months also had reached the same

Mangalore, July 24: In a case of dowry death, a woman breathed her last at a private hospital in the city on Friday, after allegedly attempting to commit suicide unable to bear the physical and mental torture meted out to her by husband and in-laws. The victim has been identified as Sameena, sister of S M Farooq from Goa. She had been married to one Abdul Rasheed, a resident of Kinya village near

Mangalore, July 24: Abhishek Das of South West Railways won the 5th Mangalore International Open FIDE rated Chess Tournament. The 24-year-old commerce graduate from Ranchi was awarded a trophy and Rs 1,11,111 prize money by Indian Overseas Bank CMD M Narendra, the chief guest of valedictory celebrations. Abhishek Das, hails from Jharkand had won nine out of eleven rounds in the tourney with nine

Mangalore, July 23: Minister for Higher Education Dr V S Acharya said that with the single child norm, Dakshina Kannada and Udupi districts have seen negative growth in population and imbalance in sex ratio. The rate of growth of population is -25 in Udupi and -20 in Dakshina Kannada. Speaking at the presentation of a study by Manipal University on the impact of mid-day meals on the school

Mangalore, July 24: Kuduremukh Wildlife Foundation coordinator Niren Jain has urged the Minister for Energy Shobha Karandlaje to undertake Under Ground High Tension Power Transmission cabling system for the Udupi Power Corporation Ltd (UPCL) transmission line from Nandikur to Hassan, passing through high density forests of Western Ghats. In a press release, he said the proposal of Karnataka Power

Kasaragod, July 23: Veteran journalist Padmabhushan T J S George called upon the mass media to continue their fight against endosulfan with the intention of imposing ban on it in the state. He was speaking to media persons after inaugurating a 'Journalist meet' organised to provide financial help to the victims of Endosulfan at Envisage Municipal Conference Hall, here on Saturday. Mr George said