Nearly 400 students of Milagres College, took out a two-wheeler rally focusing on the importance of wearing helmets while riding two-wheelers here on Thursday. There were about 200 two-wheelers, including motorcycles and scooters, in the rally. The Udupi District Police is promoting voluntary wea

BENGALURU: Chief minister Siddaramaiah has been issuing confusing statements on the location of IIT. More than a week after he wrote to centre seeking change in the location to Dharwad from Raichur, Siddaramaiah on Tuesday made another U-turn saying he never demanded that the IIT be set up in Rai

MANGALURU: The Tulunadu Rakshana Vedike on Wednesday staged a rasta roko demanding the district administration to set right the problems arising due to the Jeppu - Mahakalipadpu manual railway crossing and the potholes on the road leading to Jeppu via National Highway 66. Yogish Shetty Jeppu, fou

BENGALURU: Unscheduled power cuts in Bengaluru and other major cities are still the norm despite a grand announcement of curtailing power cuts after September 20 came from energy minister D K Shivakumar, about a fortnight ago. In his defense, Shiva Kumar on Tuesday blamed the indifference of the

MANGALURU: Manipal Hospitals, a part of Manipal Health Enterprises, entered the 'India/ Asia Book of Records' by organizing largest free heart screening event by a hospital chain on a single day assessing 10,732 people across its units on the account of 'World Heart Day'. The screening was conduc

BENGALURU: Satish U R, a native of Tumkur district landed early morning in the city to meet his kins in NIMHANS hospital. "I thought I would get a bus early in the morning before the protestors even wake up to obstruct the city's functioning. There was none. Auto rickshaws charged a bomb of Rs 500 t

The Home Department has made elaborate security arrangements to ensure law and order across the State on Saturday in view of a Karnataka Bandh call given by over 1,000 associations. " We have ensured necessary measures to thwart any attempts of violence and there will be tight security in place,"

A permanent solution for travelling public on the notorious Shiradi Ghat road on the Bengaluru-Mangaluru national highway will come at a high cost. An estimated Rs 10,000 crore is the cost of the four-lane, 23-km-long pass planned at the Ghat, which includes 12.41 km of tunnel. The feasibility st

BENGALURU: A 6 year old boy kidnapped by a relative was rescued in the nick of time by Ashok Nagar police. The police arrested two persons- 25 year old Gagan and Clinton for the kidnap, just as Clinton had reached the City Railway station with Jishnu (the victim) to get away from Bangalore. On We

BENGALURU: The city has seen the first successful simultaneous pancreas-kidney transplant in the state on 23-year-old Shakeer D, a resident of Bengaluru. Shakeer, who had been suffering from Type 1 Diabetes since the age of 12 years received the organ five weeks back from a deceased donor. The

September 22, 2015 | Correspondent | Bhatkallys News Bhatkal: Following complaints of sand being sold at exorbitant prices in Uttara Kannada district, Deputy Commissioner Ujjwal Kumar Ghosh has issued a directive to issue fresh guidelines over fixation of sand price within a week. He announced

Addressing the principals and management members of private colleges in the annual general body meeting held at Besant Women's College on Monday, Shantharam stated that the government has unscientifically fixed the fee tariff for colleges imparting specialized education. Where a formula for calculat

MANGALURU: Former Union minister and Congress leader B Janardhan Poojary alleged that there is a big scam in handing over the work of Yettinahole project to partner of Meghana Constructions Kapil Mohan, who is a corrupt IAS officer and had been earlier raided by enforcement agencies. Poojary told

U.T. Khader, Health and Family Welfare Minister, said on Saturday that people of Dakshina Kannada should show their large heartedness and allow water from Yettinahole Project to flow to the parched districts of South Karnataka. Speaking to presspersons here, Mr. Khader said that districts includi

The Bangalore Metro Rail Corporation Limited (BMRCL) will borrow around Rs.12,000 crore of loan from various international banks and investors for completion of the second phase of the Bangalore Metro Rail Corporation Ltd. The second phase of the project will cost Rs. 26,400 crore and is expe

MANGALURU: The woes of victims affected by alleged endosulfan poisoning continues with State Government still unable to give them timely assured relief. Now the Endo Virodhi Horatta Samiti, Kokkada, is planning to hold a protest in front of Deputy Commissioner's office here on September 28 if the

MANGALURU: Long arms of the law caught up with Shivanna alias Puttayya, 58, when DK district police re-arrested him in connection with a case registered against him in Bantwal rural police station. Shivanna, arrested by then Bantwal rural PSI K U Beliappa on March 17, 2002 while attempting to smuggl

UPPINANGADY, DK district: Despite heavy rain, more than 10,000 people blocked the Mangaluru-Bengaluru National Highway (NH-75), some 60 km from Mangaluru, for more than five hours on Tuesday. The protesters, including students and senior citizens from Dakshina Kannada district, were objecting to the