Karnataka

Moodbidri, February 17: Renowned spiritual guru and founder of the Art of Living Sri Sri Ravi Shankar on Thursday openly condemned the practice of 'Made Snana' a Hindu religious ritual, saying that it is a callous system. He was interacting with a group of dignitaries including officials, elected representatives and journalists at Anandamaya Resort at Shobha Vana in Moodbidri. Mr Ravi Shankar

Udupi, February 17: Lokayukta Santhosh Hegde has said that the progress achieved in the rehabilitation of flood-affected people in Northern Karnataka is only 10 to 20 percent. He said that the inquiry assigned to the Lokayuktha on the Mining Scam and the KIADB scam would be completed in another five months. Replying to another question from the media he said though there are only 1.2 crore BPL

Udupi, February 17: Lokayukta Justice N Santhosh Hegde on Thursday called upon the students to excommunicate the corrupt in the society. He was speaking after inaugurating M-Battled, the state level inter-collegiate Commerce, Management and Cultural Fest organized by the Department of Commerce, Milagres College, Kallianpur. He advised the people to change their attitude towards the people who earn

Mangalore, February 17: Dharmadhikari of the Sri Kshetra Dharmasthala Dr D Veerendra Heggade was given a warm felicitation by Yoga Federation of India (YFI) on Thursday at the a function in Dharmasthala near here. The felicitation comes ahead of the 36th National Yoga Championship 2011. The officials of the NFI also handed over the logo of upcoming event to Dr Heggadde. Speaking on the occasion

Mangalore, February 17: ING Life India, in its 10th year of operations, on Thursday launched a new traditional insurance product ING ACE (Pension & Life) with features such as high guaranteed additions, limited premium pay and tax benefit under Section 80 of Income Tax Act. Speaking at the launch, Murali L, Executive Vice President (Karnataka & Goa), said the pension variant of this insurance

Mangalore, February 17: Guest lecturers of the Government First Grade Colleges across the state including Dakshina Kannada launched an indefinite agitation on Thursday in support of their various demands. Under the banner of the 'Federation of Government First Grade College Guest Lecturers' they boycotted the classes at all degree colleges across Karnataka. Although, all the first grade colleges

Mangalore, February 17: The Catholic Diocese of Mangalore in association with different churches and secular organisations will take out a mammoth silent protest rally rejecting the report of the Justice BK Somasekhar Commission on Sunday, February 20, from Jyothi Circle to Nehru Maidan at 3 pm.Vicar General of Catholic Diocese of Mangalore Rev. Monsignor Denis Prabhu, told media persons at Press

Mangalore, February 17: The valedictory conference of month long campaign “Hayya-Alal-Falah” (Come towards Success) organised by Jamath-e-Islami Hind (JIH) will be held on Sunday, February 20 at 4.30 pm at Deralakatte City Ground near here.Muhammad Kunhi, District Convener of JIH told mediapersons at Press Club here on Thursday, that the Campaign that began on January 5 at Sullia, is being

Manipal, February 17: The inaugural ceremony of Student Innovation group (SIG), a University Student Initiative under Manipal University Technology Business Incubator (MUTBI) to provide a conducive environment to encourage, nurture and support new ideas, was held recently.The group intends to conduct yearlong activities to foster a spirit of innovation among the student body of all constituent

Mangalore, February 17: Yenepoya Medical College hospital of Yenepoya University organized a CME programme on Management of Paediatric Asthama and Getting even with Baldness for the Integrated doctors (general practitioners) practicing in Dakshina Kannada district.Head of Dermatology Dept. Dr. Manjunath Shenoy made a presentation on baldness. He explained in details its causes, symptoms, treatment