Karnataka

Udupi, June 30: Unidentified culprits broke into a temple at Kemmundelu Bhandarmane at Yellur village near Padubidri and decamped with an expensive image of a demigod. Sources from jurisdictional Padubidri Police Station said that miscreants gained entry in to the temple the intervening night of Thursday and Friday and stole the portrait of the Eshwar Kumar Daiva. The silver portrait was decked

Mangalore, June 30: Continuing their agitation against hike in fees of seats under Government quota of CET, the activists of Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad staged a protest in the city on Saturday. The protesters warned of intensification of the protest if the government failed to withdraw the recent hike. Addressing the protesters Chinmaya Rai, City Coordinator, ABVP, said that the fee hike

Mangalore, June 30: Citizens under the banner of 'Jana Jala Vedike' organized a march for water as a protest against privatization of water resources and commercialization of water on Saturday. The protestors gathered at Kankanady and procceded to Thumbe Dam site where they took a pledge that they will not allow government authorities to privatize the city's water resource. Prasanna Heggodlu

Mangalore, June 30: The overdependence on machines in the post-industrialization era has changed people's approach towards life. The fast-paced lifestyle is taking a toll on the modern man's mental health. In the olden days people used to put in lot of hard work to make a living, but still the physical exertion would make them get a sound sleep in the night. But the mental pressure brought about

Mangalore, June 30: Jagotik Konkani Songhotton has condemned the move of Karnataka State Konkani Linguistic Minorities Institutions (KSKLMI), which had recently raised voice against considering Konkani works written in scripts other than 'Devanagari' for Central Sahitya Akademi awards. Addressing a press meet here on Saturday, Eric Ozario, General Secretary, JKS, lamented that despite the fact

Mangalore, June 30: The media in general went overboard in portraying the Nityananda Swami issue said Shashidhar Bhat, senior journalist. He was speaking at a programme organized by the Journalists' Study Centre, Mangalore, as part of the Kannada Press Day celebrations on Saturday. Stating that a majority of media did not speak about Lingayat Swamijis standing in support of former chief minister B

Puttur, June 30: Well-known herpetologist Dr Ravindranath Aytahl, who is kwon for rescuing snakes and treating the victims of snake-bites in Puttur, has added a new feather on his cap by artificially hatching 30 Cobra eggs. Dr Aythal already has the credit of breeding over 5,000 snakes using artificial incubation in the last 30 years. Nearly two-and-a-half month ago Dr Aithal was given 18 eggs of

Mangalore, June 30: A Bantwal based woman was found dead under mysterious circumstances in a well near her NRI husband's house at Kelugudde Chatla in Kasargod. 26-year-old Kriti Shetty had married last year to one Raviraj Shetty who works in Dubai. Even after marriage she had continued her education and was awaiting her CA final year results. Raviraj Shetty had returned home around three weeks ago

Kundapur, June 30: The heavy rains which lashed the district for the last few days, has taken a toll on the national highway, state highway and other roads. All the roads were seen inundated in Kundapur. The road from Herikudru bridge to Hemmadi on NH 66 is in deplorable condition with water logged roads, following artificial floods due to lack of storm water drains. Owing to the negligence of the

Udupi, June 30: The Udupi Zilla Panchayat approved an action plan of Rs. 89.84 crore for 2012-13 at its general body meeting here on Friday. The meeting resolved to urge the government to increase ZP members honorarium to Rs 5,000 and to take a delegation to the CM to press for the same. Raising the issue ZP member Manjunath Poojary said that as the prices of all commodities and traveling expenses