Karnataka

Mangalore, March 16: The Union budget presented by Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee earlier today has attracted more criticism than praise from people of the coastal districts of Udupi and Dakshina Kannada. Following are some responses of people who spoke to Coastaldigest.com: Latha Kini, President, Kanara Chamber of Commerce and Industry: Increase of service tax and central excise tax will hurt

Mangalore, March 16: Senior advocate and former chairperson of Karnataka Women's Commission Pramila Nesargi on Friday demanded enforcement of a Common Civic Code in India to end discrimination of women on the basis of customs and rituals. Delivering key-note address at the two-day national seminar on “Women and Social Reforms” at Besant Evening College here, she said women in India were denied

Mangalore, March 16: Women's Grievance Redressal Committee should not lie down. Instead it should be active throughout, said Zilla Panchayath Chief Executive Officer Dr K N Vijayaprakash. He was speaking after inaugurating a workshop of harassement on women at work place, organized at Netravathi Hall in Zilla Panchayath on Thursday. “If no complaints have been registered in four years, we should

Mangalore, March 16: Youth should take initiative to spread information about consumer rights among the public. It should reach the common man. Consumer should become the king in true sense and not in slogans, said Dakshina Kannada Zilla Panchayat Chief Executive Officer Dr K N Vijayaprakash. He was addressing the gathering at World Consumer Day celebration and Consumer Education Certificate

Udupi, March 16: The expert committee, consisting of environment scientists, appointed to study the ill effects of the coal based Udupi power plant, already submitted its report and made some suggestions to overcome the damage on life and environment caused by the plant, said Power Minister Shobha Karandlaje. Speaking at a press conference she said that unless the promoters of the plant set right

Udupi, March 16: If the former chief minister B S Yeddyurappa does not turn up for the election campaign by Friday evening, the last day for public campaign, count down for Chief Minister DV Sadananda Gowda's exit will begin, said former KPCC President Janardana Poojary. Speaking to press persons Mr Poojary said that Yeddyurappa has decided not to sleep until he makes DVS step down to enable his

Mangalore, March 16: It was a much awaited day for the AIMITians as the inauguration ceremony of 'Insignia-2012 -The Blue Oceanic Quest', organized by the MBA faculty, took place on Thursday morning at the Beeri campus of St Aloysius Institute of Management and Information Technology (AIMIT). Vishal Hegde, Executive Chairman, NITTE group of Institutions and Trustee, NITTE Educational trust was the

Manipal, March 16: Nearly 4,000 students of the Manipal Institute of Technology (MIT), a constituent of Manipal University, went on a protest on the institute's premises and later in front of the university building against the death of a fellow student Ishaan Nilani here on Thursday. The students, who gathered in front of the university building for nearly four hours, shouted slogans against the

Udupi, March 15: In spite of the uncertainty over former CM B S Yeddyurappa joining the BJP campaign for Udupi-Chikmagalur byelection, Chief Minister DV Sadananda Gowda said that former might reach here by flight by Friday. Replying to press persons here on Thursday he said, ``unlike Congress we do not require senior party leaders to campaign for our party. We have a strong force of workers''

Mangalore, March 15: A 17-year old Muslim girl, who had been forced to stay away from classes throughout her second year Pre University Course at Moodbidri based Jains College for covering her head, was finally allowed to appear for final examination on Thursday. Though the College had refused to give admission ticket to Commerce student Hadiya Iqbal to write the all-important examination till