Karnataka

Mangalore, March 11: Chairpersons and members of four standing committees of Mangalore City Corporation were elected unanimously on Friday at meeting hall of MCC here. Mayor Praveen conducted the elections for the four committees namely Taxation, Finance and Appeals, Town planning and Improvement, Public health, education and social justice and Accounts. Each committee will have five ruling party

Mangalore, March 11: New Mangalore Port Trust's '40th National Safety Week' programme concluded on March 10. The Week was observed from March 4 to 10. Various competitions like slogan writing, drawing on safety, elocution competition, mock drills by the Port Fire Service and Marine Department of the Port on fire safety, bomb squad operation by CISF personnel etc. were conducted during the week

Mangalore, March 11: A plan to extend the Mangalore airport's tabletop runway, which witnessed the decade's worst plane crash in India, remains stuck 10 months after it was announced as both the airports regulator and the Karnataka government are reluctant to bear the expense. In May, an Air India Boeing 737-800 flying in from Dubai overshot the airfield and crashed into an adjacent hill, killing

Mangalore, March 11: A.J. Hospital & Research Centre, Mangalore is conducting a Thyriod camp from March 14 to 19 at the premises of the hospital. Detecting problems related to hypothyroidism / hyperthyroidism is difficult. This hormone is essential for the effective functioning of all organs. Previously, almost all the patients were of the feeling that surgery is the only solution for thyroid

Mangalore, March 11: Deputy Commissioner Subodh Yadav has directed officials to take stringent measures against the law breakers and book criminal cases against people who dump construction waste in the public places. At a meeting convened to review the development works of MCC on Thursday Yadav said that negligence on part of officials has resulted in continued waste dumping under the limits of

Mangalore, March 11: Possibilities of constructing a fly over at Hampankatta Junction were discussed at a meeting convened by Deputy Commissioner Subodh Yadav to review the development works of the Mangalore City Corporation. However, no specific decision was taken in this regard at Thursday's meeting, said an official press release issued here. Yadav directed the MCC officials to complete road

Mangalore, March 11: A gram panchayat president has been trapped by the Lokayukta sleuths red handed while accepting bribe from a labourer. Kedila Gram Panchayat President Guddappa Rai had allegedly demanded bribe from complainant K Krishnamoorthi Bhat for the release of a bill pertaining to the construction of Rajiv Gandhi Seva Kendra building near the panchayat office. According to the complaint

Kasaragod, March 10: The police arrested Hameed, a native of Cheruvathur in Kasargod district and a resident of Jappinamogaru in Mangalore for stealing the service revolver and five rounds from a police man on a train. He stole the revolver and rounds from Rajesh, a constable attached to the Malappuram Armed Reserve camp in Kannur Express on February 28 while he was going to the AR camp from

Mangalore, March 10: Kemaru Mutt pontiff Eesha Vitaldasa Swamiji on Thursday visited the encampment of job seekers in the project displaced families of the Mangalore Special Economic Zone, whose indefinite hunger strike in front of the office of Deputy Commissioner went on for the10th consecutive day. Expressing his support to the cause of the agitators, Swamiji said that it is the right of the

Udupi, March 10: Udupi district has been witnessing highest ever power cuts since a few days. On an average there is a power cut of 10 hours a day. Thanks to the protests against the coal based power project- UPCL. According to the sources, officials in the KPTCL had been unofficially asked to maximize the power cut in the district to nib the protests against the coal based power plant, causing