Mangalore : The Members of a Group of Bank Unions under United Forum of Bank Unions ( UFBU) held a protest meeting on Tuesday evening in front of State Bank of India near DCO and their leader Vincent D’ Souza announced the Bank Strike as on Dec 18 to press for their earlier demands and […]

Mangalore: A reputed Tulu stage and film personality, Macchendranath Pandeshwar, has been awarded the Tulushree prize given by Akshara Foundation of Alapadav, and it will be conferred on him at a function organized on Aug.7 at 3.00 PM at Rayee H.P.School, when DK-KSP chief, Pradeep K.Kalkura will be present to give away this Tulunad award. […]

Mangalore : Vishnu Kamath Shevgoor popularly known as ‘Children’s teacher’ was born on June 16, 1951 to a Mangalore’s first commercial designer L Laxman Kamath Shevgoor and Laxmi Bai Shevgoor.  Shevgoor who hails from Urwa, started his career as an art teacher in the year 1967 in the name of Shevgoor Fine Arts in Carstreet […]

Mangaluru artiste shines in Bengaluru The famous Mangalorean cine star Suresh Manglooru, was born on 14 March 1953 at Attavar. He who was appointed as the senior supervisor at the BSNL Company from 1973 to 2003 had shown interest towards acting. During the course of his profession, he acted in several dramas organized at the […]

Bangalore: The President of 77th Kannada Literacy Assembly now in Bangalore is a 98 year old, short, smiling man called G.Venkatasubbaiah, a lexicographer, also known as ‘Jeevy’ by his friends and fellow journalists. Jeevi (GV) wrote many books but they were not novels, but only dictionaries. Only an expert in a language can produce such […]

Tulunad’s Composer Mangalore : Manikanth Kadri, whose first steps in the field of music were guided by his father Padma Shree Kadri Gopalnath, the internationally acclaimed saxophone player, is now famous in his own rights as a composer of film music. Born in Mangalore on May 28, 1978, Manikanth studied in St. Lawrence Higher Secondary […]

Mangalore City BJP MLA, N. YOGISH BHAT, now Deputy Speaker, elected unopposed Mangalore : It could be a sympathy Vote, may be friendly feeling, that gave N. Yogish Bhat,  four times MLA of Mangalore and never a minister, unopposed support from  all parties in the Karnataka  legislature on Monday to take the high seat as  […]

Mangalore : Prajwal alias Kartik Shetty, son of Vijay Shetty, who basically hails from Nakre – Kedike, Karkala of Dakshina Kannada is a name in Sandalwood film industry. He was born on 4th July 1987 and was brought up in Mumbai. He has done his BA from Jaihind College, Mumbai.  He has a passion of […]

Badminton: Saina Nehwal Wins Gold to be World No.1 Having won 3 open Badminton Tournaments in Delhi, Malaysia and Indonesia in a row, this year the Hyderabad girl Saina (20) had risen to world no.2 position, relegating many a Chinese women star. She brought a last minute Gold medal to India, beating a Malaysian champion […]

Kukke Subrahmanya: Ten years ago, she came with a new husband Jai Mehta, industrialist, to Kukke Subrahmanya to make a vow for children. On Dec.4, a nature-looking mother Juhi Chawla Mehta came with her husband of a decade and 2 children, Jahnavi and Arjun to fulfil the 10 year old vow to the Snake God […]