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Mangalore, June 17: The CRZ unit of Mangalore has been in the news of late owing to the mud dumping issue along the Phalguni River at Kuloor. The change in its stand on the issue had angered the activists and villagers who have been demanding that the mud be removed. Now, in what appears to be a similar case of river encroachment due to mud dumping at Adyar behind the Sahyadri College campus, the

He comes across as someone ‘different’, as is every Guinness World record holder. Playing the mouth organ and performing mimicry for long hours is his forte. Trichur Nazir, the Guinness world record holder for playing the mouth organ for 101 hours continuously entertains crowds who come to watch his shows. But more than entertainment, the man intends to spread communal harmony in his own way. In a

The delay in the beginning of submersible sea wall project has been hurting people at Ullal’s sea erosion prone areas who are left at the mercy of the raging sea year after year. According to Shanth Kumar, Joint Director, Coastal Protection and Management Project, Department of Ports and Inland Water, Mangalore, the project is still in the tender stage. “We have called for the tender and July 23

B.V.Kakkillaya, the doyen of the Leftist movement in Karnataka and a former Member of Parliament and the Karnataka Assembly, who passed away last week was a political leader of rare qualities. As a young fellow comrade wrote in his tribute to Kakkillaya “he had his heart on the left side and the colour of his blood was truly red.” He was a communist ideologue of high thinking as much as he was an

“I haven’t been able to sleep for the past two days” is what 12 year old Bhavya Shetty says holding her ear which she says was mercilessly twisted by men representing the Mangalore Special Economic Zone Ltd. (MSEZL) who came in with JCBs and bulldozers to carry out work on land belonging to the inhabitants of Nallidadi Guttu in Bajpe on May 25. “They twisted my ear and threw me away. All we did

This great personality needs no introduction. Although it is five years (death 27th May 2007) that my chacha (Ibrahim Sayeed) has left this world after completing a successful journey here, he still continues to inspire the thoughts and actions of many. He personified humility, modesty, patience and compassion. He earned respect for his sincerity, simple living and utmost dedication towards the

Mangalore, May 22: Tuesday marks a somber anniversary especially for Mangaloreans, who witnessed India’s third deadliest aviation disaster in its civil aviation history on May 22, 2010. It was on this day two years ago that Air India Express flight IX812 from Dubai to Mangalore overshot the runway on landing, fell over the cliff, caught fire and scattered wreckage across the surrounding hillside

You see them with the typical African phenotype. But when you hear them speak and go about their daily chores, you are left with no doubt about the fact that they are Kannadigas at heart. Up in the villages of the coastal district of Uttara Kannada, lives the Siddhi tribe. Spread across Haliyala, Yellapura, Ankola, Mundgod, Joida, Karwar and Sirsi, one finds Siddhis having got accustomed to the

India is all set to witness a different kind of class war as the Supreme Court has upheld the 25 per cent reservation for children from economically weaker sections (EWS) in private schools. Already some schools have reluctantly implemented this reservation under the Right to Education Act-2009. Others challenged it in the court. Now that the apex court has upheld the constitutionality of this

The Right to Education (RTE) Act has been haunting private schools ever since it was passed by the union government in 2009. However, the latest notification of the Act in the state gazette by the Karnataka government wherein it has been made clear to the schools that they cannot charge any donation from the parents, not even ‘voluntary donation’, is likely to come as a bigger blow to them. At the