Gold coins of 24 k purity with a discount of 7 per cent will be sold at selected post offices by India Post in association with World Gold Council and Reliance Gold. In DK district gold coins will be available at head post office, Balmatta and Suratkal post offices.
Senior Congress leader VS Ugrappa has claimed that a fact-finding committee headed by him had exposed the looting of the state’s resources by the mining mafia as early as November 2008.
Kannada actress Bhavana attracted the crowds through her road show as part of election campaigning for Bantwal’s Congress candidate B Ramanatha Rai on May 2, Thursday.
A total of 180 couples entered into wedlock at the 42nd annual mass marriage ceremony held at Sri Kshetra Dharmasthala on May 2 in the presence of several dignitaries including Dr D Veerendra Heggade, Dharmadhikari of Dharmasthala
A telephone exchange and three other shops were gutted in a major fire that broke out at Punacha in Bantwal taluk in the early hours of May 2, Thursday.
A youth identified as Krishnan (28) hailing from Putttariadka in Chattanchal was found dead under mysterious circumstances at an isolated spot at Mahinbad in Chattanchal on May 2, Thursday. Police suspect this to be a case of murder and have taken into custody Nawaz (28), said to be a friend of the deceased.
Senior Congress leader and former MLA Vijay Kumar Shetty said that BJP government takes the credit and try to fool people with their manifesto without doing any development in Suratkal Constituency.
If it is widely believed that it was a challenge posed by senior Congress leader Janardhan Poojari that forced Gujarat CM Narendra Modi to come down to Mangalore for an election rally
“Congress challenged me and I came, whatever they predict goes wrong; they said I will not come and I came, they are saying that BJP will not gain victory, but we will,” said Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi.
“Only Congress can give a stable Government in Karnataka” said Ooman Chandy, Kerala Chief Minister while addressing a press conference held at Congress election office in Kadri on Thursday, May 02.
A woman named Shashikala from Neermarga was arrested by the Bantwal Police at BC Road on May 1, Wednesday on the charges of snatching chains of children mostly at wedding ceremonies.
A KJP candidate of Karkala, fell ill all of a sudden and had to be hospitalized on May 1, Wednesday. It is learnt, the candidate who had spent almost Rs 12 lakhs from his own pockets, was dejected when the party failed to release funds for campaigning purposes.
Several Yuva Morcha workers took part in a procession organised by the BJP Yuva Morcha from Mangala Stadium to Hampankatta on May 1, Wednesday.
CPI(M) Politburo Member Brinda Karat launched a frontal attack on the BJP and t he RSS and charged the RSS of polarizing the society and creating bloodshed.
Deputy Commissioner Harsh Gupta, has in a press communiqué informed that the HPCL has extended a total amount of Rs 17 lakh as an intermediate ex-gratia of Rs 1.5 lakh each to the next of kin of deceased in the Perne LPG tanker tragedy that took place on April 9. It has also provided Rs 50,000 as compensation to the injured.