Karnataka

Mangalore, July 3: The representatives of street vendors in the city, who are agitating against Mangalore City Corporation's eviction drive, are all set to take the issue to Karnataka Governor H R Bhardwaj. A delegation of leaders, including Mangalore City Footpath Vendors Association honorary secretary Sunil Kumar Bajal, JD(S) state general secretary M G Hegde and veteran Congress leader

Mangalore, July 3: The DCIB sleuths arrested one more accused in connection with the murder of KVG Administrative Officer A S Ramakrishna. The arrested has been identified as Vaman, a resident of Polali. With this, the number of accused in the murder case has gone up to six. The arrested include Dr Renukaprasad, son of Kurunji Venkataramana Gowda, founder of KVG Institutions. Vaman was produced in

Mangalore, July 3: A gang of motorcycle thieves was busted by Mangalore City Police on Saturday following the arrest of three of its members. The arrested, who are currently in the custody of Bunder Police, have been identified as Mohammed (41) hailing from Kallapu, Abdul Rahman alias Mustafa (31), a resident of Jalligudde and Ashfaq (22), a resident of Addyar. Four stolen motorbikes have been

Mangalore, July 3: The Southern Railway has changed the departure timings of 12 trains, 11 leaving Mangalore Central Station and one passing through Mangalore Junction. The departure timings of Thiruvanthapuram-Lokmanya Tilak Terminal (Mumbai, train no 16346) has been advanced by 50 minutes. It will leave Mangalore Junction at 11.30 pm instead of 12.20 am. The release said the departure of

Mangalore, July 3: Traffic on the National Highway 66, connecting Kerala and Karnataka, was disrupted for nearly an hour following a landslide at Padupanambur in Mulky near here on Saturday. Vehicles from both sides were stranded as the road was completely blocked when the hillock slipped blocking the road at around 6pm. Police arranged for three earthmover machines immediately to clear the mass

Udupi, July 3: A lepoard created panic in Karkala on Saturday morning. The big cat was tranquillized after a six-hour struggle. A forest official and a policeman were injured in the operation to nab the it. The feline was first noticed by cashew factory workers at Kadulhole Village in Marne GP, 16 km from Karkala town. The animal was already wounded when it came in from the forests. As a crowd

Mangalore, July 2: Two school-going children had a narrow escape early on Saturday morning when a speeding car hit the centre median of a slippery road near St Agnes College, Bendur here. The Alto car landed straight over the road-divider, when the lady-driver lost control over it, while moving towards Bendur from St Theresa School at around 8:30 a.m. While the driver blamed the slippery road for

Mangalore, July 2: All India Postal Employees Union has decided to launch a nationwide indefinite strike from July 5. The Joint Council of Action representing the National Federation of Postal Employees (NFPE), Federation of National Postal Organisations (FNPO), All India Postal Extra Departmental Employees Union (AIPEDEU) and the National Union of Gramin Dak Sevaks (NUGDS) have called the strike

After giving 81 umbrellas to the students of the Gandhi Nagar Primary school to 'induce the rain gods' to give rain which succeeded as it has been raining cats and dogs in Mangalore, we decided to conduct one more of such by giving bags to those of the students who did not have them. Not just any ordinary bags but those with slogans on them to make them think. There were about 68 students needing

Mangalore, July 2: Labeling the draft of 'Prevention of Communal and Targeted Violence Bill, 2011' which has been put in the public domain, as anti-Hindu, the activists of Hindu Janajagruthi Samithi said that a nationwide campaign would be launched protesting the enactment of this bill. Ramananda Gowda, District Convener of the Samithi told media persons here on Saturday that the draft of bill