The Mangalore unit of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) organised a meet on Alternative Politics at the NGO Hall on November 4, Monday.
The heavy rains accompanied by strong winds, thunder and lightning on November 3, Sunday evening led to the collapse of an electric tower over a house near Killur in Pavoor village. The tower also damaged an electric pole.
Kasargod police have arrested one Hussainar (38) of Mangalpady on the charges of smuggling ganja in a Qualis vehicle. Police have also seized 46 kg of ganja which was found in the car.
It is a tragedy that political parties of the coastal districts have maintained silence on the Sowjanya rape and murder case, said Satishchandra,Kasargod district Secretary of the CPI(M).
Akshaya Patra on Monday celebrated the milestone of providing 2.5 crore meals in the district since beginning its operations here in 2005.
Oil Minister M Veerappa Moily today allowed the sale of 5-kg cooking gas (LPG) cylinders at petrol pumps across the country.
“Shanthigaagi Sahitya” a unique literary campaign organised by Shanthi Prakashana, a noted publishing house of Mangalore, was inaugurated at Town Hall here on November 4, Monday by DK District in-charge Minister and State Minister for Forest and Ecology B Ramanatha Rai.
Thieves who broke into a house at Katapady on November 3, Sunday night have decamped with jewellery weighing four sovereigns and a cash of about Rs 5000.
Air India will have to pay around Rs 8 crore to the family of Captain Zlatko Glusica, the pilot of the Air India Express Boeing 737 that crashed in Mangalore on May 22, 2010, killing 158 people.
A Ratha Yatra organised as part of Swami Vivekananda’s 150th birth anniversary celebrations will be arriving in Mangalore on November 5, Tuesday.
A couple lost their lives while eleven others sustained serious injuries when the Eicher Tempo in which they were travelling hit an embankment and rolled into a gorge on the fifth curve of Charmady Ghat.
The Udupi District and Sessions Court has extended the judicial custody period of Hebri Shubhaker and Sudhir, the prime accused in the case of sexual abuse of a school girl of Manipal.
A physical instructor of a government school at Hejamady Kody has been found dead under mysterious circumstances. He was found hanging near a well close by his house on November 3, Sunday morning.
Subramaniam, Assistant Commissioner of Police has said that autorickshaw drivers will adhere to traffic rules completely provided they are imparted adequate training.
Good writing skill is a God given gift and writers have to put their talents to good use towards the welfare of the society, said Fr Denis Prabhu, Vicar General of Mangalore Diocese.