Karnataka

Mangalore, June 25: Coming down heavily on the statement of Karnataka BJP president K S Eshwarappa that the CM would not take the truth test as “it is not the BJP's culture”, MG Hegde, State Secretary of JDS wondered as to which party BS Yeddyurappa and Shoba Karandlaje belong “since both have challenged 'truth test in the name of god' several times in the past” Addressing the media persons here

Mangalore, June 25: Until and unless people fight against corrupt officers, violation of Human Rights cannot be eliminated. It is the duty of youth to fight against such officers with courage to have a better democratic society in future, said Seemanth Kumar Singh, Police Commissioner, Mangalore. He was speaking after inaugurating the Human Right Education Cell of St. Agnes College Mangalore, here

Mangalore, June 25: District BJP President Padmanabha Kottari on Saturday confirmed that he has received a copy of resignation letter from B Nagaraj Shetty, Chairman of Karnataka Coastal Development Authority Chairman. Mr Kottari told that Mr Shetty requested to relieve him from the post, citing personal reasons. He said he has not rejected the resignation letter, but, brought the issue to the

Mangalore, June 25: After two days of searching in vain, the dead bodies of all three youth who got drowned in the Arabian Sea at Tannirbavi beach, were found deposited in three different places on the shore on Saturday morning. Panambur police confirmed that dead bodies of Deepak (23) and Santosh (24), were found near estuary here early morning. After a couple of hours, the mortal remains of

Mangalore, June 25: By re-electing U K Monu Kannachur as the president of Ullal Dargah, the two-week long conflict among the members of the Dargah committee has come to an end. Kanachur was re-elected as president on Friday with the consent of all 55 members. The election was supposed to be held last week, which was postponed due to the absence of Ullal Qazi Abdul Rehman Al Bukhari Tangal. In the

Mangalore, June 24: Criticising the move of the Mangalore City Corporation to introduce 24X7 water supply scheme in the City Corporation limits, social activist and documentary film maker Natesh Ullal said the privatisation of water supply would lead to several problems as the entire idea has several loopholes in it. He was speaking at a discussion on the Privatisation of Drinking Water Supply

Surathkal, June 25: Alleging injustice in providing jobs to the youth from the Project Displace Families (PDF) of Mangalore Special Economic Zone (MSEZ), the job aspirants have decided to move the court stating that the district administration and the Company have promised to provide jobs to only those youth who have undergone training at KPT, but the fact is that there are many more youth who

Mangaolore, June 25: Two more unreserved railway ticket issuing counters managed by private agencies will come up in the city within three months. Announcing this at a meeting here on Friday, S.K. Raina, Divisional Railway Manager, Phalghat Division, Southern Railway, said at present only one such counter functioned near the Mangalore Central Railway Station here. It issued 1,000 tickets a day. He

Udupi, June 24: General Secretary of Udupi Zilla Nagarika Samithi Nithyananda Volakad and his team, on behalf of the voters on Friday took out a march on the streets of Udupi to collect 'Tappu Kanike' (expiate), to be submitted to idol of Manjuantha located at Sri Kshethra Dharmasthala, for doing the mistake of electing representatives like CM Yedyurappa and former CM HD Kumaraswamy. They

Udupi, Jun 24: Government has given its technical sanction to the developmental projects to be taken up under the Rs 25 crore grant sanctioned by the Chief Minister as a Diamond Jubilee grant to Udupi Municipality, said Udupi MLA K Raghupathi Bhat. He was speaking after offering bhoomi pooja to the construction of an over head tank at Manipal to supply water to Vijaya Nagara, Vidyarathna Nagar and