MANGALURU: Dakshina Kannada recorded 74% polling in the election held for 227 gram panchayats in the district on Friday. While there are 3,399 seats in the district, 109 candidates were elected unopposed. Hence, the election was held for 3,288 seats and the number of candidates in fray was 7,619.

In a traditional ceremony, Yaduveer Krishnadatta Chamaraja Wodeyar, the adopted son of Pramoda Devi Wodeyar, was on Thursday crowned as the titular head of the erstwhile Mysuru royal family. The coronation took place at Kalyana Mantap in Amba Vilas Palace here at an auspicious hour amid Vedic cha

BENGALURU: A 102-year-old woman from Doddahalasuru in Kollegal taluk of Chamarajanagar district and a 91-year-old man from Gandabomanahalli in Kudligi taluk in Ballari district are among the 2 lakh-plus contestants for the 85,661 gram panchayat seats in the two-phase polls on Friday and June 2. C

Bengaluru, May 28: Regional passport officer from the city, Kartikeyan, announced that the time taken for police verification in case of issuance of passports has been reduced to 23 days from the previous 43. This has been done to simplify and hasten the passport distribution process, he clarified.

Bengaluru: When the national tiger census report was released in January this year, Karnataka had every reason to feel proud. The state is now home to 406 tigers, the highest in the country. There is 35% rise in the number of big cats compared to the previous 2010 census. And the credit mainly goes

Bengaluru: A fee hike is on the anvil for private engineering, medical and dental colleges. A day after the state government incorporated the consensual agreement in Karnataka Professional Educational Institutions (Regulation of Admission and Determination of Fee) Act, 2006, college representatives

BANGALORE: No one in Bharathnagar, KGF, is ready to talk about the town's suddenly infamous son, Rajan Natarajan aka Pari Rajan, 54, who is suspected to be the kingpin of an illegal lottery racket that threatens to ruin the career of more than one IPS officer.Rajan's neighbours say they don't know a

BENGALURU: BJP leader and Union minister DV Sadananda Gowda on Sunday demanded a CBI probe into the lottery racket, alleging "some ministers are involved in it". The demand came even as the Congress government sought to downplay official collusion in the scandal. "Contrary to media speculation th

Bengaluru: It was meant to be vacation time for Rupashree K. After slogging for months, the girl deserved a break. But instead of unwinding at home, the student of Christ Junior College was lined up outside the BangaloreOne Centre in Koramangala. She wanted to apply for a photocopy of her PU answers

BENGALURU: A monthly salary of Rs 50,000 and long weekends... the life of a techie suited Deepak Shanmugam, 33, a resident of Halasuru, but he felt he could do more. That restlessness and the urge to strike out on his own drove him to a profession that is fast catching on in Bengaluru. He is now a d

MANGALURU: The United Muslim Organisation DK District has decided to up the ante against the private school in the city where a 3-year-old LKG student was allegedly abused sexually by the school van driver on March 13. The organization, alleging bias on the part of the authorities concerned i

BENGALURU: Pulling up the state government for failing to fulfill the assurance given to court in relation to constitution and functioning of district police complaints authorities(DPCA), the Karnataka high court has directed for filing of an affidavit by senior official by Thursday. This was aft

MANGALURU: People of Dakshina Kannada have two reasons to cheer for with regard to the II PU results that was announced on Monday. The district has not only maintained its top ranking in the state, but also has improved its pass percentage from 86.04 in 2014 to 93.09 this year. Deputy director

BENGALURU: While Karnataka transport department continues to press for paying of road tax for vehicles registered in other states, if plied in here for more than 30 days, there is hope that the Centre might amend that rule. The campaign—One nation, one road tax has reached the tables of the Union

HUBBALLI: The "Sarvodaya Samavesh", organized by the Congress in Davanagere on Saturday, inconvenienced thousands of bus passengers, particularly those travelling to neighbouring cities like Belagavi, Gadag and Haveri. With 511 buses of the North West Karnataka Road Transport Corporation (NWKRTC) hi

Chief Minister Siddaramaiah on Saturday declared that he would make Karnataka free of BJP and communal forces.  He said this at the Congress rally organised at Davangere to mark the completion of two years of his government. The rally, attended by scores of party workers atBapuji College groun

MANGALURU : Dakshina Kannada district administration has served a notice to the department of health and family welfare and Mangaluru City Corporation (MCC), directing them to come up with an effective plan to curb malaria. At a review meeting on Thursday, deputy commissioner AB Ibrahim instructed t

Dharwad: A nine-year-old boy out on the street playing a game with friends was electrocuted when he came in contact with a live wire in the district's Benakanakatti village on Thursday morning. The Hubli Electricity Supply Company (Hescom) had cut off power supply in the village and restored it arou