A price war between cab and autorickshaw services seems imminent with TaxiForSure, a leading taxi aggregator, launching a new service on Thursday. The Nano Taxi Service will have a fleet of 100 cars. The fares are Rs 25 for the first two kilometres and Rs 10 per km after that, which is comparable

MANGALURU: A proposal to build a park in the memory of the victims of flight IX812, which crashed off Mangaluru International Airport (MIA) at Kenjar near here on May 22, 2010, was mooted at a meeting that was on chaired by deputy commissioner A B Ibrahim. The latest proposal is a slight modifica

Bengaluru: The Kuppegala incident in Mysuru district, where some school children refused to eat midday meals as it was prepared by a dalit cook, is not an isolated event. There's rising discrimination against the scheduled castes/tribes in Karnataka according to government data. Annually, over 3,000

BENGALURU: A Bogota plan is set to be replicated in namma Bengaluru to decongest the city's harrowing traffic. As a first step, all vehicular movement is likely to be banned on Brigade Road and Commercial Street, the two prominent shopping hubs in city's CBD (Central Business District) area. A si

Mangalore: Passengers had a miraculous escape after a sleeper bus travelling from Bengaluru to Manipal caught fire in the wee hours of Monday in Uppinangady police station limits. Speaking to mediapersons, SP Sharanappa said that fire erupted in the Seabird private bus, when it reached Sannampady

BENGALURU: The Kiss of Love event, scheduled to be held in Bengaluru on Sunday, was put off following an order from a magistrate court, directing city police to take strict action against the organizers. A petition was filed by K Shivakumar Reddy, president, Sri Rama Sene, Bengaluru unit, and M V

MANGALURU: Instead of muddy fields, the asphalted streets of Mangaluru will host Kambala buffaloes this Saturday. Kambala committees from Udupi, Dakshina Kannada and Kasaragod districts will walk 200 pairs of buffaloes on Mangaluru roads on Saturday to protest t he ban on buffalo races in Dakshina K

BENGALURU: The transport department has set December 15 as the deadline for schools to schools to implement safety guidelines in their buses. If not, the institutions will have to face legal action. The buses will have to display the names of children, their class, address, phone nu mber, blood gr o

BENGALURU: Is your water connection registered and legal? If not, get it regularized before December 31. Else, the tap will go dry first, and then the Bengaluru Water Supply and Sewerage Board (BWSSB) will lodge a criminal case that attracts imprisonment up to two-and-a-half years. Following a ra

MANGALURU: Suresh Prabhu, union minister of railways on his first visit to Mumbai after taking charge of the Railway Ministry reviewed working of Konkan Railway. Chairman and managing director of Konkan Railway Bhanu Prakash Tayal had a detailed meeting with the minister and all aspects of the worki

MANGALURU: Believe it or not. The permit of auto rickshaws, that is issued for Rs 500, is sold at a whopping sum of Rs 1.75 lakh in black market in coastal city. The matter was raised by members of various auto rickshaw drivers associations at a meeting convened by deputy commissioner AB Ibrahim

Though the Dakshina Kannada Regional Transport Authority (RTA) on Thursday directed the Karnataka State Road Transport Corporation (KSRTC) to operate air-conditioned services between the city and the international airport, the corporation is unlikely to commence the operations. Chairing a meeting

BENGALURU: City-based Manipal Hospitals, which operates over 5,200 beds, has partnered with healthcare startup Portea Medical to expand its reach into the emerging home healthcare space. Manipal had rolled out a specialized at-home healthcare vertical Manipal Homecare in 2010, which will now be o

MANGALURU: Researchers should share their knowledge for the benefit of the masses and their focus should be eradication of diseases from the society, said Minister for Health and Family Welfare. He was speaking at the inaugural of the three day Fourth National conference of Society of Biologica

Karnataka Government has released Rs. 45 lakh to set up Kannada Study Chair at Jawaharlal Nehru University in the national capital, according to President of Delhi Karnataka Sangha Vasanth Shetty Bellare. In a statement, Mr. Bellare said setting up of the chair would provide an opportunity for th

The State government on Friday told the Karnataka High Court that it is planning to re-introduce use of revenue stamps. Advocate-General Ravivarma Kumar made a statement in this regard during the hearing of a PIL petition. He said the State Cabinet would discuss the matter after taking a final de

Four Janata Dal (Secular) leaders met with Governor and Chancellor of Universities Vajubhai Rudabhai Vala here on Friday demanding an inquiry into various irregularities in the Visvesvaraya Technological University (VTU). They alleged that scams worth crores of Rupees had been exposed earlier too

Mangaluru: Meet Chandramouli Shenoy M, Mangaluru's own Super Randonneur (SR). The 43-year-old is back home after clocking 600km in 40 hours on a bicycle in Gurgaon-Rajasthan, earning him this tag. So what is Randonneuring? It is a non-competitive endurance cycling sport that originated in France