MANGALURU: The city sizzled on Friday with the mercury shooting up to 38.6 degree Celsius - an all-time high for February. On Thursday, the temperature had was 38.4 deg C. Friday's temperature is 6 degree C above the normal mean max of 31.9 deg C for February. The earlier high for the decade for Fe

BELAGAVI: Inquiry committee of Press Council of India (PCI) upset with the election commission for being reluctant about complaints it registered with the Council against various media houses for allegedly publishing paid news during elections and not pursuing the complaints in further course of tim

Udupi:Toursim in the coastal district got a further boost with the launch of heli-tourism. Deputy commissioner R Vishal on Monday inaugurated heli-tourism in the district, the first joy ride service of the coastal district at Adi Udupi. With the increase in foreign and domestic tourists to Karnat

Mangaluru: The Central government is planning to make impose penalty on those who litter in public places, said Union minister for urban development, housing and urban poverty alleviation and parliamentary affairs M Venkaiah Naidu at the 40th Swachh Mangaluru Abhiyan of Sri Ramakrishna Mission in Ma

MANGALURU: State government has appointed chief of city police units in Karnataka as the member secretary of the District Police Complaints Authority functioning out of police commissionerates in the state. Accordingly, M Chandra Sekhar, police commissioner, Mangaluru city police will be the member

Hme minister G Parameshwara on Friday said the state government would constitute peace committees involving Africans and locals in every locality that has foreign student population.  Parameshwara told media that the government would issue directives to hold these peace committees to discuss and un

Following the advisory from the Centre, the State Health department will intensify screening for Zika virus carriers at the Kempegowda International Airport and the Mangalore International Airport from Thursday onwards. The Health department, which is coordinating with the airport authorities, ha

Bangalore : Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah today urged the global investor community at 'Invest Karnataka 2016' to consider Karnataka as their partner for growth. Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah today urged the global investor community at 'Invest Karnataka 2016' to consider Karnataka

Health Minister U T Khader on Monday said the State government has taken the spread of dreaded Zika virus seriously and precautionary measures are being taken to prevent its spread in the State. Speaking to reporters, he said it is yet to be confirmed whether Zika virus really exists or it is onl

MANGALURU: Monday marked day one of the compulsory helmet rule for pillion riders being enforced across Dakshina Kannada district and as many as 2,642 cases were booked in Mangaluru Commissionerate and Dakshina Kannada District Police limits. While of these 1,517 cases were in Mangaluru Commissio

MANGALURU: Come March, Mangaluru will have a flight to Bengaluru every two hours. At present, the city has nine flights to Bengaluru every day. While six of these flights are operated by Jet Airways, SpiceJet operates two and the latest entrant to the Mangaluru sector - Air Pegasus -one.  JT Radhak

Belagavi: Farmers of Shivamogga district led by Kuruburu Shantakumar, state president of Sugarcane Growers Association, have extended financial assistance to the family of Vittal Bhimappa Arabhavi of Kankanwadi village in Raibag taluk, who committed suicide by consuming poison in the premises of Suv

MANGALURU: Dakshina Kannada District Administration warned Mangaluru City Corporation (MCC) to be alert and monitor strictly all construction sites in the city to control the rising number of malaria cases.  Citing the failure on part of the city corporation in reducing the mosquito source and cont

BENGALURU: City in-charge minister KJ George on Wednesday told reporters he is not a receptionist to respond to every telephone call from mediapersons. The minister, who of late has earned a reputation of being unavailable to the media, claimed: "I have a lot of work to do and if I keep attending to

MANGALURU: New Mangalore Port Trust (NMPT) has given fillip to industrialization in Karnataka by means of offering most comparative rates as compared to other major ports. The port has given all facilities to encourage coastal movement of traffic and now is the first Indian port to start the Ro-Ro s

UDUPI: Malpe beach in this temple town on Sunday became the first beach in the country to provide Wi-Fi facility to visitors 24x7. Courtesy technical expertise provided by BSNL, visitors can access free Wi-Fi. The only rider is that a person can avail this facility for 30 minutes per number at 4G sp

In the wake of the arrest of six suspected terrorists with ISIS links in the state, Karnataka Home Minister G Parameshwara today said that more than 300 places have been identified as "sensitive". "Police department in Bengaluru and in the entire state have identified more than 300 places as sens

BENGALURU: Come February 1, BMTC monthly passes will all be priced uniformly at Rs 1050. BMTC has proposed uniform pass rate and do away with two types of it, one worth Rs 850 and the other 1300. This can be used for all classes/types of bus services. The monthly pass holder will require to get an i