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

BENGALURU: The Karnataka High Court has asked the authorities to be more careful next year so that instances like of errors in the re-evaluation of second PUC results and delay in furnishing photocopies of answer-scripts to students are not repeated. Disposing of a PIL filed by city-based Rajaraj

There is relief in sight for the city as the residents of villages around the S. Bingipura landfill have agreed to allow the Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) to dump waste there for the next fortnight at least. With this, clearing of nearly 4,000 tonnes of garbage piled up across parts o

The garbage nightmare has come back to haunt some parts of the city. With residents near Bingipura landfill preventing trucks from dumping garbage, the sight of heaps of garbage lying uncleared in Bengaluru south and Bommanahalli is back. The residents have locked up the entry to the landfill aft

MANGALURU: Former Union minister B Janardhana Poojary said that no political parties have the rights to decide what people should or should not eat. Reacting on recent ban on meat in Maharashtra, Jammu and Kashmir, Chhattisgarh and Rajastan, Poojary said that the government cannot mandate people

MANGALURU: A novel FISH test for malaria diagnosis has been developed by researchers of the US and Mangaluru using an LED light source which is suitable for malaria-endemic countries which are short on resources. It detects all strains of malaria. Dr Jyotsna Shah and her team of researchers at ID

The power situation in the State is likely to improve by September 22, with the Union government allowing drawing of 200 MW during night from the Central grid and the Bellary Thermal Power Station (BPTS) and Udupi Power Corporation Limited (UPCL) gearing up to supply power to the State grid shortly.

MANGALURU: Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal today appreciated the 'people-oriented' agitational programmes of the Aam Aadmi party's local unit and urged them to reinforce the organisation. Party leaders said Aam Aadmi workers from Sullia met Kejriwal this morning and briefed him about the org

BENGALURU: The CBI late on Tuesday arrested customs superintendant S H Lingaraju at the Kempegowda International Airport on the city's outskirts for demanding and accepting Rs 2.5 lakh as bribe from a complainant, an official said on Wednesday. "The accused was nabbed at the airport under relevan

MOODBIDRI: Shamed after being caught allegedly stealing mobile phones from her hostel mates, an 18-year-old student from Bengaluru committed suicide in Alvas College hostel here on Sunday. According to police, Rakshitha, a first-year BCom student at Alvas College and resident of Jayanagar in Beng

Udupi: Minister R V Deshpande visited the victims of Kumta gas tanker tragedy who are presently being treated at KMC Hospital, Manipal on Friday September 4th. In-charge minister of Uttara Kannada district R V Deshpande, announced compensation of Rs 2 lakhs to the family of the deceased and Rs 1

BENGALURU: As if coping with erratic power supply was not bad enough, Bengalureans could soon have their taps running dry. Scant rainfall in the Cauvery basin has resulted in dwindling water levels in Krishnaraja Sagar (KRS) and Kabini reservoirs, two crucial sources of drinking water for the cit