Kadaba : The Hosamutt bridge which provides a link to the famous pilgrim town of Subrahmanya has submerged due to incessant rains on July 3, Wednesday. This is the first time it has inundated this monsoon. No sooner the bridge was submerged, gates on either sides of the bridge have been closed by the Home […]
Mangalore : Houses in Maravoor have submerged after heavy rains lashing the area has left the Maravoor dam across Phalguni river in Gurupur overflowing. People who have been affected by the floods have been evacuated. Locals however allege that the authorities have made no effort to release water from the dam even after the problem […]
Bangalore : A social activist and editor of an Urdu magazine was brutally murdered at his office on Tannery Road in Devarajeevanahalli here on Wednesday. Shamshul Huda (65), a resident of Bamboo Bazaar in Shivajinagar, was also running the Al-Quds Co-Operative Society at the Idgah complex on Tannery Road. Mr. Huda had left home at […]
Udupi : John Martis (34), a person hailing from Malpe Bailakere lost his life in a bomb blast at Afghanistan on July 2. Martis was deputed by the UNO under whom he works, as accountant of North Atlantic Treaty Organisation in Afghanistan and was working there since the past four years. Martis who was scheduled […]
Mangalore : Water levels in various rivers of DK and Udupi districts, has seen a sharp rise due to incessant rains since the past two years. The met department has said 175 mm rainfall may occur in the next 48 hours across the coastal belt. Fishermen have also been asked against venturing into sea for […]
Mangalore : Ashwini Akkunji, the extremely talented athlete who had to face shame after she failed the dope test in 2011 and faced a two year ban, is now full of hopes that her ban period has ended on Wednesday. Ashwini has been training at the NIS facility at Patiala since seven months, She admits […]
Kundapur : Heavy rains have caused problems to residents of Sarkal isle with the only link to the world a bridge getti gn washed away some time back. Recently flood surrounded the isle leaving them in a fix and giving them sleepless nights. About 3,000 acres of paddy fields in Sarkal have now been inundated. […]
Mangalore : A JCB crane which met with a brake failure while at work at Karnad near Mulki on July 3, Wednesday, claimed the lives of two people. The deceased are Nagappa Gowda from Hassan and Somalingappa from Gadag. Both were employees of Ramky Group. They were standing near a house in the area after […]
Kolkata : Observing that setting up one hydel project after another without much thought would hinder the natural river flow, the West Bengal government has taken up the issue with the Centre for consulting the state before setting up any such project.“Out of four hydel projects in state, the National Hydroelectric Power Corporation (NHPC) had […]