Bangalore: Nearly 2,500 aspirants took advantage of the ‘Passport mela’ organised across Passport Seva Kendras (PSKs) in the State on Saturday. Such melas have been organised regularly by the Regional Passport Office (RPO) to cater to increasing demand. The Bangalore RPO reportedly issued 68,167 pas

MANGALORE: "Our country faces many challenges, of which none is bigger than poverty and unemployment," said Vice President of India M Hamid Ansari. He was speaking after inaugurating the centenary celebrations - valedictory functions of the Catholic Association of South Kanara (CASK) here on Sund

The State Congress has decided to mobilise party workers to a function where Prime Minister Narendra Modi will inaugurate a mega food park in Tumkur on September 24. This would be the first public function of Mr. Modi in Karnataka after assuming office. Though a Congress MLA opposed the presen

Nearly 2,500 aspirants took advantage of the ‘Passport mela’ organised across Passport Seva Kendras (PSKs) in the State on Saturday. Such melas have been organised regularly by the Regional Passport Office (RPO) to cater to increasing demand. The Bangalore RPO reportedly issued 68,167 passports in A

MANGALORE: After worms, it's a piece of glass in chocolate now. The silk experience wasn't silky for Rachel Thomas of Manipal. In the first week of September, her 27-year-old son Abhishek Thomas took a bite into a bar of chocolate and crunched what he thought was a dry fruit. In seconds, he realized

MANGALORE: A population of 513. That's what Mangalore desperately requires to qualify for the Prime Minister's ambitious Smart City project under which 100 Indian towns are likely to leapfrog into the next league with modern amenities. Guidelines say cities with a population of 5 lakh to 10 lakh,

MANGALORE: The state government will submit a memorandum to the centre seeking assistance for rain damage in eight districts of North Karnataka in the next day or two, minister of state for agriculture Krishna Byre Gowda said. The total estimated damage to standing crops, public property and lives -

Mangalore, Sep 16: Karnataka Health and Family Welfare Minister U T Khader will be representing India at an international level annual conference being hosted by World Health Organization. The annual conference of WHO will be held this year at Cape Town, South Africa from September 28 to October

In an effort to tackle the rise in number of malaria cases in Mangalore city, the Mangalore City Corporation launched a malaria controlling drive on Monday. The drive that will last for three days, aims at inspecting all the construction sites in the city limits and identifying and destroying mosqui

The Customs Department seized 1.6 kg gold concealed behind a mirror in the toilet of a private aircraft at Mangalore International Airport on Sunday. According to a press release, Customs sleuths carried out a thorough check of the Jet Airways flight soon after it landed at the airport from Dubai

Mangalore, Sep 14: Tension prevailed at Mangalore International Airport after suspected "explosive materials" (as per the claims of CISF) were found in possession of a passenger on Saturday night. Unconfirmed sources identified the passenger as Mohammed Abdul Khader from Periye Uppala in Kasargod

BBMP, police told to put end to the ‘menace’ Why criminal cases were not booked against those illegally putting up banners, hoardings, posters? The Karnataka High Court posed this question to BBMP Commissioner M. Lakshminarayana while hearing a petition related to a dispute over erection of an

Bengaluru: On the eve of a crucial meeting of office-bearers and district unit presidents of the Congress party, the crisis engineered by KPCC president Dr G. Parameshwar's persistent demand that he be appointed deputy chief minister and Chief Minister Siddaramaiah's threat to quit rather than conse

Dr S N Mothi, a 62-year-old paediatrician from Mysore, his wife Nalini Mothi, businessman Gururaj K S, his wife Nalini Gururaj, manager of Karnataka Bank in Mysore, Ramachandra D S, his wife Sujatha D S and their friends from Bangalore, Nagaraj and his wife Vasantha, were eager to visit Ladakh after

Minister for Tourism and Higher Education R.V. Deshpande said here on Monday that a Union government committee visited the State recently in connection with the State’s request to relax Costal Regulatory Zone (CRZ) regulations for developing beaches and islands. He was hopeful that the Centre would

With the city police increasingly feeling the need for greater police presence on the ground, they are considering roping in citizens to maintain a vigil against crime and to facilitate their role in patrolling. This new Commissionerate formed out of the Dakshina Kannada police has been facing pr

Gold smugglers have found ingenious ways to smuggle the precious yellow metal into the country through the Kempegowda International Airport (KIA), hoodwinking the Customs. LED flood lights, adaptors of electric hair trimmers, UPS devices, microwave ovens and transformers, and electronic devices are

Many students here will miss the live telecast of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's speech on Teachers' Day. While most government schools lack the facilities for it, many private schools may not do it because of the timing. The speech is scheduled from 3pm to 4.45pm, but classes at many private sch