Passengers using Bengaluru City Railway Station will no longer have to stand in long queues for unreserved tickets. On Thursday, 10 automatic vending machines were inaugurated. Passengers can use smart cards to get tickets from these machines. In addition to the machines, 20 mobile phone charg

MANGALURU: Even as the strike of drivers continues to hit the services of Ola Cabs, the district administration has taken note of the issue and has convened a tripartite meeting on October 28. Members of Dakshina Kannada District online Taxi Drivers and Owners Association continue to remain offli

BENGALURU: Minister of State for Fisheries and Youth and Sports, K Abhaya Chandra Jain received a death threat call from dreaded gangster Ravi Pujari on Saturday afternoon. Along with him, it is said even Forest Minister B Ramanath Rai also received a similar such call from Pujari. Speaking to

MANGALURU: The Indian Institute of Science (IISc) has officially written to the state government that the Yettinahole project is "unscientific and not feasible". T V Ramachandra, coordinator, Energy and Wetlands Research Group, Centre for Ecological Sciences, Indian Institute of Science (IISc), B

A young Dalit writer was attacked by a group of men for his writings against the caste system perceived to be “anti-Hindu” at Davanagere in Central Karnataka on Thursday. The attack comes barely three months after the shooting of writer M.M. Kalburgi – barely 100 km away – and at a time when nume

MANGALURU: The past 72-hours was quite busy one for officials of department of customs at Mangaluru International Airport in that they seized contraband of diverse nature valued about Rs 30 lakh. The contraband seized include silver coated gold powder concealed in milk powder, saffron and foreign br

MANGALURU: India's first offsite manufactured building gets ready at Yenepoya University campus in the city outskirts. KEF Infra, the infrastructure arm of the Singapore-based KEF Holdings, has completed India's first wholly offsite (factory) made project, a residential project for staff and studen

MANGALURU: In the wake of series of protests and national highway block agitations, chief minister Siddaramaiah has invited people's representatives from Dakshina Kannada district, activists, experts and leaders of various organisations for a discussion on the Yettinahole project. A meet was sche

A soldier (sepoy) working for the Indian Army fell from a running train between Senapura and Bijoor on Sunday. He later died in a hospital in Manipal. The Gangolli police said the station master of Senapura railway station B.T. Nayak told the police that an unidentified person was found injured o

In 15 years, just half of the city’s thirst may be slaked. This grim picture comes from a report by Bangalore Political Action Committee (B.PAC), which says that the current system is incapable of keeping up with the growth of the city. By 2021, the city faces a deficit of more than 1,000 million

A day after senior Congress leader S M Krishna apprised party President Sonia Gandhi of the dissidence in Karnataka, Chief Minister Siddaramaiah has been summoned to New Delhi after Dussehra season. The infighting in the Karnataka Congress came to the fore when the party's vice-president Rahul Ga

Mangaluru,  Oct 17: In a first-of-its-kind initiative in the country, health minister U T Khader on Saturday October 17 launched a malaria control software system which would enable mapping of malaria cases under MCC limits and keep track of reports. Launching the software in a simple ceremony at t

BENGALURU: A 34 year old Police Sub Inspector attached to the Doddaballapur police was stabbed to death by house burglars. On Friday afternoon, Jagdish along with two other constables had come to Nelamangala town chasing two robbers- a father son duo reportedly identified as Raghu and Krishna.

MUMBAI: Eight people were killed in a cylinder blast which occurred on Friday afternoon in a hotel at Kurla. The deceased include seven men and one woman. The blast occurred in City Kinarra hotel located on Gurunath Wadi marg at Kurla. The deceased have been taken to a nearby civic hospital and f

Mumbai, Oct 16, 2015, (PTI) After a period of slowdown, a lot of interest from the investor fraternity is witnessed in the office rental yields with Bengaluru, Mumbai and Delhi topping the list of 20 global cities, a recent survey said. According to a report by property consultant Knight Frank

BENGALURU: Grimacing with pain, M Joseph, 74, sat outside a medical shop in Victoria Layout, Richmond Road on Wednesday morning.Cupping one side of his face, Joseph was desperately waiting for the shop to open so he could buy some painkiller for his toothache. "I stay nearby . I can't walk till t

GUNDYA: The BJP padayatra against the Yettinahole project led by Dakshina Kannada MP Nalin Kumar Kateel reached Gundya after covering over 100km from Mangaluru on Tuesday. The padayatra, launched at Mangaluru city on October 10, was discontinued after Kateel, Udupi-Chikkamagaluru MP Shobha Karand

MANGALURU: Minister for minority welfare Qamar-ul-Islam has directed deputy commissioner A B Ibrahim to start the work on district minority welfare offices complex at Pandeshwar without further delay. The project for which district minister B Ramanath Rai laid the foundation stone on December 13