Karnataka

Mangalore, May 30: To give hands on experience to law students, SDM Law College and Centre for Post-Graduate Studies and Research in Law has come out with a law laboratory, which is first of its kind in the country. The lab will be beneficial not only for the law students but also for the general public. Speaking to presspersons here on Tuesday, Principal Dr B K Ravindra said the law students are

Mangalore, May 29: Karnataka Tulu Sahithya Academy Chavadi on Tuesday organized a discussion on 'Growth of Tulu Yakshagana' at its premises here. Senior Yakshagana artistes, who shared their experiences, voiced their concern over the existing situation of Yakshagana and unanimously agreed that something concrete needs to be done in the direction of bringing the art form to its pristine form. They

Bidar, May 29: Hundreds of students from Bidar go to Mangalore every year to seek admission to pre-university colleges there. Hasina Banu and Mohammad Jazeel, however, have reversed this trend. Students of Shaheen PU College here, these two are from Dakshina Kannada district and have excelled in the II PU examination. Haseena's father, P. Mohammad, who runs a roadside tea shop at Bantwal in

Mangalore, May 29: The Bharat Bundh announced against the petrol price hike by the central government is unnecessary, said B Janardana Poojary, Congress leader. Addressing media persons at Press Club in Mangalore on Tuesday, Mr. Poojary said that no government likes to trouble people by raising prices but in view of maintaining India's economy, the step was necessary. Lashing out at the critics of

Mangalore, May 29: Members of the Congress party staged a protest against the detention of party activist Lokayya Poojary by police on charges of possession of illegal liquor on Tuesday. Addressing the protestors B Ramanath Rai, MLA, and District Congress President, said that the police, Excise department officials are hand in glove with BJP which has instructed them to arrest the Congress

Kundapur, May 29: A 21-year-old Kundapur based girl was stabbed to death by an unidentified man as she was walking home from work in BTM Layout 2nd Stage in Bangalore on Monday evening. The victim has been identified as S Divya, daughter of Shantha from Kundapur in Udupi district. She worked as an office assistant with a shoe manufacturing company in Bangalore. Divya's neck was slashed with a

Mangalore, May 29: Ahmed Anwar, senior photographer of 'Coastaldigest.com' and 'Coastal Mirror', has secured two prizes in a recently held dirt track photography competition. . The competition was conducted at Fisheries College grounds in Yekkur by Sportscraft in association with Mangalore Motorsport Club during Gulf Dirt Track National Championship-2012'. Mr Anwar bagged fifth prize in both group

Bangalore, May 29: Brinda Karat, Polit Bureau member of the Communist Party of India (Marxist), on Monday said that Chief Minister D.V. Sadananda Gowda told a delegation of CPI(M) Members of Parliament who met him that “justice will be done” in the case of Vittala Malekudiya, journalism student of Mangalore University and a tribal activist of the Democratic Youth Federation of India, and his

Manipal, May 29: A veterinary doctor was robbed of his chain, money, and a car at Herga coming under Manipal police station limits. According to the Manipal police, Jayaprakash Shetty, a veterinary doctor, was asked by his acquaintance Rohan to visit Udupi. Dr. Shetty came to Manipal with Rohan and another person Rajesh at 8.30 p.m. on May 27 and checked into a lodge at Herga on Manipal-Parkala

Manipal, May 29: A 21-year-old student studying at the Manipal Institute of Technology committed has allegedly ended his life in his hostel room here. The deceased has been identified as Preetam Banerjee hailing from Kolkata in the state of West Bengal. He was a student of sixth semester in Mechanical Engineering. Police said that he committed suicide by hanging himself in his hostel room in the