Udupi: Passenger amenities play a vital role in customer satisfaction. Konkan Railway that is a step ahead in ensuring comfort of passengers travelling over its route therefore has decided to dedicate a new escalator at Udupi Railway station at a cost of Rs 1.30 crore for convenience of its passenge

MANGALURU: Rooman Technologies, training partner of the Union Ministry of Skill Development & Entrepreneurship, is all set to popularize Pradhan Mantri Kaushal Vikas Yojana (PMKVY) in Mangaluru. Dakshina Kannada MP Nalin Kumar Kateel will join hands with Rooman Technologies to hold a mega job

MANGALURU: Auto rickshaw ride in this coastal city is all set to pinch your pockets from this Makara Sankranti day. Regional Transport Authority, Dakshina Kannada district taking note of plea by auto rickshaw drivers to upwardly revise the fare on November 17 last, has done so with immediate effect

BENGALURU: The bypolls to three assembly constituencies in Karnataka on February 13 will have political parties on their toes, with Hebbal in Bengaluru being the hotly contested one. The Election Commission on Tuesday announced bypoll dates to Hebbal, Bidar and Deodurg (in Raichur district). Pollin

BENGALURU: The Karnataka high court has directed both the state as well as the union government to take steps to fill up within four months the vacant posts of judicial as well as administrative members in the Karnataka Administrative Tribunal (KAT) .  This was after the court was told that by Dece

BENGALURU: Dense fog delayed departure and arrival of over 65 flights to and from the Kempegowda International Airport on Saturday morning. Over 1,000 flyers had no option but to wait as heavy fog between 6 and 7am dipped visibility to 100 metres, putting air traffic controllers in a tight spot. Ove

Transport Minister Ramalinga Reddy said on Friday that wearing helmets will be mandatory for pillion riders across the State from January 12 onwards.  Speaking to mediapersons here, Reddy said that the new rule will come into effect from Tuesday. “People of all age groups must wear helmets,” h

BENGALURU: Pillion riders, get set to wear helmets compulsorily from January 12. Transport minister B Ramalinga Reddy announced that the government had notified the rule on mandatory helmet wear for pillion riders on December 28, 2015. There was a grace period of 15 days which will expire on January

MANGALURU: A person acting as ticket examiner in train 22609 Mangaluru - Coimbatore Inter City Express on Wednesday aroused suspicion among the passengers. It was Shafi, passenger from Kozhikode who alerted the Railway authorities about this. The suspect did not have any identity card or uniform of

Even as Chief Minister Siddaramaiah seems to be inclined to have former Karnataka State Human Rights Commission Chairman Justice S R Nayak as the new Lokayukta, his appointment may not be a smooth affair.  While social activists apprehend ‘conflict of interest’ if Justice Nayak is selected, legal

UDUPI: A visit to the famed Malpe beach off this temple town of Udupi from January 15 will give tourists access to free WiFi. This freebie comes courtesy an initiative of the department of tourism, which in association with BSNL has made arrangements for this roll out. The rider is that a user can a

BELAGAVI: CM Siddaramaiah laid the foundation stone of different development projects worth Rs 1,000 crore in Ramdurg taluk on Monday including Veerabhadreshwar lift irrigation scheme estimated for Rs 544 crore. The programme was held in the premises of Shivasagar sugar factory in Udupudi of Ramd

The Indian Science Congress returns to Karnataka after 12 years -and Mysuru after 33 years -on Sunday. The last time Karnataka hosted the ISC was in 2003, when it was held in Bengaluru. The state capital has hosted ISC eight times. In 1982, the then Prime Minister Indira Gandhi inaugurated the 69th

BELAGAVI: Saumendu Mukherjee, a 1988 Karnataka cadre IPS officer took charge as Belagavi city police commissioner on Saturday, following incumbent commissioner S Ravi has transferred with promotion as Inspector General of Police of Karnataka Reserve Police.  Speaking to reporters, Mukherjee said he

BENGALURU: The state government has decided to hike the prices of milk by Rs four per litre from January 5. After a late evening meeting between chief minister Siddaramaiah and minister of state for animal husbandry A Manju, the government decided to hike the prices of milk by the said amount.

Members of Karnataka Rajya Raitha Sangha and Hasiru Sene staged a protest in front of the Bescom office here on Thursday condemning erratic power supply. The protesters alleged that the unscheduled and long power outage has affected agricultural activities and drinking water supply. The students

Mangaluru: Close on the heels of Mangaluru City Police Commissioner S Murugan imposing a temporary ban on Islamic religious speaker Dr Zakir Naik’s proposed visit to Mangaluru on January 2, 2016, the organizers approached the state government and decided to postpone the event by two months after the

The counting of votes for the elections to the Legislative Council from local bodies constituencies will begin at 8 am in 20 counting centres across the State on Wednesday. The polling was held on December 27. Chief Electoral Officer Anil Kumar Jha said that security arrangements were in place an