Mangaluru: Karkala MLA V. Sunil Kumar has been booked for “making inflammatory speech” at a meeting of the Bharatiya Janata Party in Kalladka near Bantwal on Monday evening. In the meeting, Mr. Sunil Kumar reportedly told people that the ensuing election in Bantwal Assembly constituency will be a fight between Allah and Ram and not […]

Mangaluru: Harikrishna Bantwal, a Congress leader who joined the BJP recently, reiterated here on Monday that district in-charge Minister B. Ramanath Rai should appear for a truth test before Lord Manjunatha at Dharmasthala if he has not abused Congress and Billava community leader B. Janardhana Poojary in Mr. Poojary’s absence at a function last year. […]

Mangaluru: The district administration will decide about complete or partial closure of Shiradi Ghat during its Phase 2 reconstruction after a personal visit by the Deputy Commissioner and Public Works Department engineers, said district in-charge Minister B. Ramanath Rai on Wednesday. National Highways division of the PWD is expected to commence the reconstruction work from […]

Mangaluru: More Congress leaders, including K.C. Venugopal, party in-charge for Karnataka, will arrive here on Monday to promote the party’s Mane Manege Congress programme. The Congress has begun its house connect programme in the city to counter the Bharatiya Janata Party’s Vistarak programme launched sometime ago to face the next year’s Assembly election. Addressing presspersons here […]

Mangaluru:Former Congress leader Harikrishna Bantwal, who recently said he had explosive news, on Saturday, alleged that district in-charge Minister B. Ramanath Rai has grabbed government land in his wife’s name. Speaking to reporters here, Mr. Bantwal said he kept quiet all this while because he was in the Congress and is a confidant of senior […]

Mangaluru: In addition to the strengthening of the special police wing for economic offences and narcotics, there will be regular interaction among different enforcement wings for effective action against persons involved in cannabis sale and consumption in the district, said Minister in-charge for the district B. Ramanath Rai on Thursday. Speaking to reporters after a […]

Mangaluru: Minister for Forest, Ecology and Environment B Ramanath Rai on Friday regretted that continuous efforts to check air pollution have failed to bring desired results. Speaking after flagging off of the mobile smoke emission inspection unit procured by Karnataka State Pollution Control Board (KSPCB), Rai, who is also the district in-charge minister, recalled the past experiments […]

Mangaluru: Minister in-charge of Dakshina Kannada and Minister for Forest, Environment and Ecology B. Ramanath Rai said here on Friday the district administration would seek Rs. 10 crore from the State government to construct a stadium in Benjanapadavu, Bantwal taluk. After a review of development works in the district, the Minister told reporters that about […]

Mangaluru: To mark the completion of three years of Congress government and to educate the people about the schemes that were implemented by the government, ‘Jana Mana’ programme was inaugurated by the district in0charge Minister Ramanath Rai, on Tuesday at Mangaluru Town Hall. In his inaugural speech Minister said that CM Siddaramaiah has made Karnataka […]

Mangaluru : Minister in-charge of Dakshina Kannada B. Ramanath Rai on Monday instructed officials of the Mangaluru Division of the National Highways under the Public Works Department not to close down the Shiradi Ghat stretch on Mangaluru-Bengaluru National Highway while taking up second stage upgrading works after this September. Speaking at a Karnataka Development Programme […]