Udupi: With the government releasing the list of reservation for urban local bodies (ULBs), the race for the posts of the president and the vice-president of the Udupi City Municipal Council (CMC) has begun. The post of the president is reserved for Backward Communities ‘A’ woman, while that of the vice-president is reserved for the […]

Udupi: Pramod Madhwaraj, Minister for Fisheries, Youth Empowerment and Sports, said on Monday that all arrangements were being made to provide water to water-scarce areas in Udupi city and in the rural areas of Udupi Assembly Constituency through tapping various water sources or through water tankers. Speaking to presspersons after a meeting of engineers, Panchayat […]

Mangaluru: With increasing space shortage on its current premises, the Udupi City Municipal Council (CMC) has drawn up a 15-crore plan to construct a new office on the land where the old taluk office was located. The departments in the municipality have been suffering due to space shortage. The present one-storey CMC office was built […]

Udupi: The Udupi City Municipal Council (CMC) adopted a surplus budget of 1.06 crore for 2018-19 at its general body meeting here on Monday. The budget, presented by CMC president Meenakshi Bannanje, showed the total receipts at ₹91.3 crore and expenditure projected at 90.24 crore. The CMC expects to get 27.31 crore from grants of […]

Udupi: The issue of getting water from the Varahi river to meet the drinking water needs of the city figured prominently in the general body meeting of the Udupi City Municipal Council (CMC) here on Monday. During the presentation of the CMC’s annual budget, council president Meenakshi Bannanje said a ₹270-crore plan had been drawn […]

Udupi: Pramod Madhwaraj, Minister of State for Fisheries, Youth Empowerment and Sports, said on Thursday that it was essential to create more awareness about consumer rights. He was speaking after inaugurating the National Consumer Rights Day function organised by the district administration, the zilla panchayat, and other organisations, here. Mr. Madhwaraj said that school and […]

Udupi : CMC is all set to tackle water shortage in the next three months and also take up repair works of damaged linkages and provide uninterrupted water supply for at least two to three hours in a day, CMC Environment Engineer Raghvendra said. Elaborating over the measures taken to overcome water scarcity in the […]

Chikkamagaluru: The district police, who are investigating into the cricket betting racket, seem to have stumbled upon explosive information that may cast aspersion at the integrity of investigation officers attached to criminal investigation department (CID). The CID personnel were earlier tasked with the probe into DySP Kallapa Handibag’s suicide case, following a kidnap case linked […]

Udupi: To deal with increase in garbage collection, the Udupi City Municipal Council (CMC) has started constructing a second inertisation yard to process it at the Solid Waste Management Plant at Alevoor village, near here. The city generates about 68 tonnes of garbage daily. The garbage collected from different parts of the city is taken to […]

Mangaluru: The issue of drinking water dominated the general body meeting of the Udupi City Municipal Council (CMC) here on Tuesday. Raising the issue, Ramesh Kanchan, councillor, said that there was water shortage in some parts of the city and demanded to know the measures taken by the CMC to mitigate it. Narismha Nayak, councillor, […]