Karnataka

Mangalore, June 27: Days after setting up a high school in the backward Newpadpu area near Konaje, Hajabba was back in business in the Hampankatta area here on Monday, selling fruit to earn a living. It has been nearly 10 months since the unlettered man from Harekala was seen in Hampankatta. Mr. Hajabba has followed his dream of setting up a primary school and subsequently a high school at

Mangalore, June 26: India's leading Islamic movement Jamaat-e-Islami Hind has termed the success of Muslim Brotherhood candidate Mohamed Morsi in the Egyptian presidential election as an important political event in the present times. In a media release, JIH president Syed Jalaluddin Umari expressed the hope that the new government of Egypt would further strengthen its longstanding relations with

Udupi, June 26: Former president of Udupi Urban Development Authority Alevoor Nagaraj passed away on Tuesday. He was 65. Udupi Congress sources said that he died of cardiac arrest. An active Congressman Nagaraj had also served as the Alevoor Gram Panchayat member. He was one of the founders of the Sarvajanika Ganeshotsava Samithi in Alevoor. He was unmarried.

Mangalore, June 26: The resignation of Suresh Kumar, State Law Minister and a subsequent clean chit being given to him was all a 'drama', B Janardhana Poojary, Senior Congress leader has said. Speaking to media persons in Mangalore on Tuesday, Mr. Poojary said that Chief Minister D V Sadanada Gowda through a wicked plan has rescued Mr. Kumar who had tendered his resignation on Saturday after media

Mangalore, June 26: The attack on the Christian prayer hall at Holy Hill is a pre-planned attempt to ignite communal violence in the region, B Janradhana Poojary, Senior Congress leader, said. Speaking to mediapersons after visiting the prayer hall at Holy Hill on Tuesday, Mr. Poojary said that the attack has been carried out to create communal tension in the region and polarise votes as elections

Mangalore, June 26: “It is a combined responsibility of different sections of society to prevent people from getting addicted to drugs and the drug-addictors should not be treated as 'condemned.' Instead, they deserve the treatment of humility,” opined Mangalore City Police Commissioner Seemant Kumar Singh. He was speaking as a chief guest in a programme organised by Department of Psychiatry

Mangalore, June 26: A team of Mangalore City Corporation on Tuesday morning raided two prominent plastic manufacturing industries located at Baikampady Industrial Area in the city and seized huge quantity of prohibited plastic carry bags. The team comprising of Environmental Engineer Manjunath R Shetty, Madhu, Sanitation Inspectors Yashwanth, Santhosh, Sushanth, Poovappa, Karunakar and Babu

Mangalore, June 26: The Fishermen are the best 'eyes and ears' of the country when it comes to keeping a check on terrorism and sea crime, said R K Sharma, Commandant, Coast Guards. He was speaking at an interactive meet between the Coast Guards and fishermen community at Ullal on Tuesday. Stating that even if the total man-force of navy, Coast Guards and Coastal Police is put together it cannot

Mangalore, June 26: In order to create mass awareness regarding voluntary eye donation, a team of BJP Yuva Morcha activists from Mangalore South unit have embarked on a district-wide campaign under the banner of 'Kamala Jyothi'. The campaign kick started on the occasion of the death anniversary of Syama Prasad Mookerjee, the godfather of modern Hindutva and Hindu Nationalism, with 38 young

Mangalore, June 26: A 22-year-old motorcyclist was killed and his pillion rider was injured when their vehicle was hit by a speeding lorry near Kavoor junction on Monday evening. The Kavoor police said Dayanand (22) and his friend Chetan (23), a sales executive, were going towards Kavoor temple. The driver of the lorry, in his bid to overtake the two-wheeler, hit the motorcycle from behind