Karnataka

Mangalore, July 13: Officials of the Excise department seized illegal liquor worth Rs. 30,000 that was transported in nine bags near Suratkal railway station on Friday. A team comprising of U Hoovappa Gowda, Assistant Commisser, Excise, Vijaykumar, Excise Superintendent, M Shivananda Gatty and others caught Umesh and Premjit of Kasaragod, who were taking care of the illegal liquor that had

Mangalore, July 13: Ibrahim Azhar, a first year BBM student of a college at Ullal, was hospitalised after sustaining injuries when he got off the train fearing harassment by senior students on Thursday morning. The incident occurred onboard Charvattur-Mangalore passenger train while he was on his way to the College. In a complaint filed with the Railway police, Ibrahim Azhar said that he boarded

Udupi, July 13: Upset over being denied a ministerial berth, ruling BJP MLA from Kundapur constituency Halady Srinivasa Shetty on Friday announced his decision to resign from the Assembly. A three-time MLA and a popular leader of Udupi District, Mr Shetty is expected to submit his resignation letter in the office of Assembly Speaker K G Bopaiah. Speaking to media persons in Bangalore he said that

Mangalore, July 13: Members of the district unit of the Students Federation of India (SFI) stayed away from classes and held a protest in front of the Deputy Commissioner's office in Mangalore on Thursday urging the government to fulfill their demands. Speaking on the occasion, Nitin Kuttar, District President, SFI, said that although 25% reservation in private schools for poor and marginalized

Uppinagady, July 13: A group of Muslim girl students of Sri Ramakunjeshwar College at Ramakunja near here on Thursday boycotted classes and staged a protest demanding the College management to allow them to wear headscarf in front of male students and teachers in the classes. The protesters accused the College management of deliberately curbing their religious rights in the pretext of uniform

Mangalore, July 13: Four persons were killed in three separate road accidents reported from Dakshina Kannada, Udupi and Kasargod districts. Two people were killed and nine others sustained injuries in a head-on collision between a private bus and jeep on NH 75 at Perne in Puttur taluk on Thursday. The deceased have been identified as Kamala (60) and jeep driver Jagannath (48), both residents of

Mangalore, July 13: A Jewellery shop Kinnigoli near Mulky was burgled on Wednesday night. Gold and silver ornaments worth Rs.8.2 lakh were taken away, according to a police complaint filed by shop owner Prithviraj Acharya. As per his complaint, the miscreants entered his shop by bending the shutter bars. They took away 8 kg of silver and 271 gm of gold ornaments. The displays were broken and gold

Mangalore, July 13: The Mangalore City Corporation carried out a drive to remove all the illegal hoardings, cut outs and banners at Airport road on Thursday. The illegal hoardings were removed from the roads between Yeyyadi and Mary Hill. As many as six hoardings that are put up in gross violation of civic sense and also the civic law were removed. A team of MCC officials comprising of Joint

Mangalore, July 12: Miffed at no representation to the Bunt community in the Cabinet of Jagadish Shettar, BJP leader B. Nagaraj Shetty has tendered his resignation to the post of Chairman of the Coastal Development Authority (CDA) and as member of the party. He had sent his resignation letter to president of the Dakshina Kannada unit of the BJP Padmanabha Kottari with a request to forward it to

Mangalore, July 13: He has a national level record in javelin throw against his name. He won the second place in long jump in the international athletics sports meet held in 2010 in Pune. He is now preparing for the international sports meet for senior citizens slated to be held in Sri Lanka from July 27. Meet the 72 year old Jonathan Anand Soans, a resident of Mangalore staying in a small house