Mangaluru : DK District in-charge Minister Kota Srinivasa Poojary witgh BJP MLAs from Dakshina Kannada and Udupi districts met Chief Minister B S Yediyurappa at his office in Bengaluru on December 10, Thursday and submitted a memorandum requesting him to name the Mangaluru International Airport after Tulunadu folk legends Koti Chennaya. Mangaluru South MLA Vedavyas […]

Mangaluru : The Billawa Brigade on Monday, December 7 organised a massive bike rally upto Kenjar demanding to name Mangaluru International Airport after Tulunadu folk legends Koti and Chennaya. The police obstructed the rally at Maravoor, the bikers had to abandon their bikes and walk by foot from Maravoor to Kenjar. All along the participants shouted slogans […]

Mangaluru : Countering BJP district chief’s claim that, Congress using caste politics over Mangaluru International Airport, Harish Kumar said, Congress no need to play caste politics. BJP is exemplary in caste politics. BJP has formed development corporations of all castes, and nearly 20 such corporations are formed but has no office bearers. Such moves are taken only for political […]

Mangaluru : Opposing the privatization  and renaming the Mangaluru International Airport, the District Youth Congress and Mulky-Moodbidiri Block Congress held a torchlight protest rally from Circuit House to Bajpe airport on Wednesday, November 18. The protesters shouted slogans demanding replacement of boards with ‘Adani Airports’ to ‘Koti-Chennaya’ at Mangaluru International Airport. They have neglected the […]

Mangaluru : Chief minister B S Yediyurappa will arrive on a one-day visit to the city to participate in various programmes on Saturday, December 21. The CM is expected to chair the review meeting at zilla panchayat auditorium after his arrival here on Saturday afternoon. Later, he will particpate in the 17th annual floodlit Koti-Chennaya […]

Mangaluru: The Mangaluru’s international airport is now named as Koti- Chennaya international airport’ ?. A whats app message stating ‘has gone viral since a couple of days. However, airport officials clarified that the message is indeed a fake. An official said that once again there were fake forwards being circulated on Whatsapp claiming that the […]

Mangaluru: They were born and raised in Mangaluru and poised for a career in the corporate world. But Sandalwood was where Advithi and Ashvithi Shetty found their calling. Having fetched attention as the ‘Ramachari twins’, the girls went on to subsequently star in other Kannada films. And now one among the Shetty twins is all […]

Puttur: Stone laying ceremony for reconstruction of nine historical sites related to twin cultural folk heroes of Tulu Nadu Koti-Chennaya located at Padumale in Puttur Taluk of Dakshina Kannada (DK) district was held on Sunday. According to the plans made, nine historical places including, Koti-Chennaya Mulasthana Garadi, Bermer Gunda, tomb of Deyi Baidethi, Saroli Saimanja […]

Mangaluru : Koti and Chennaya, the legendary heroes who are dear to the hearts of the people in the district and surrounding areas, were expected get the much-needed attention when the government announced that a project on “conservation and preservation of the footprints depicting their birth and life” two years ago. Official sources admit that […]

Mangalore :  The birth place of Koti-Chennaya  Tulunadu hero’s and twins at birth, as been identified at Padumale in Putturu Taluk recently. Proposals for its multitudinel development were discuss after a lamp was lit in their memory at  Kankanady  Garodi  in City on Sunday, November 9. Dakshina Kannada Minister in-charge B.Ramanath Rai formulated the proposals […]