Bantwal: “The difficulties and the problems faced by the Areca and rubber growers will be discussed in Vidhan Soudha, all the problems will be brought to the notice of the government,” said Mangaluru South MLA J R Lobo. J R Lobo visited Peruvai village near Vittal and listened to the problems of farmers. He inspected […]

Mangaluru: Pramod Madhwaraj, Minister of State for Fisheries, Youth Services and Sports, said on Wednesday that he has urged the Minister for Mines and Geology, Vinay Kulkarni, to formulate a sand policy for the three coastal districts of Udupi, Uttara Kannada and Dakshina Kannada. He was presiding over the tri-monthly Karnataka Development Programme (KDP) meeting […]

Mangaluru : Member of Legislative Council (MLC) Ivan D’Souza on Tuesday urged the State government to prevail upon the Union government to relax Coastal Regulatory Zone (CRZ) norms to boost tourism activities in the coastal region. Mr. D’Souza told presspersons here that because of the restriction on construction of permanent structures within 500 metres of […]

Puttur : The heavy rain and lightening incident have been reported from all parts of undivided Dakshina Kannada claiming two lives at Kumbra near Puttur on Sep 28, Sunday. The deceased have been identified as Kariya (68) and Koragu(65), workers in a cashew estate. It is learnt that, the lightening had struck the duo making […]

Mangalore : Mangalore South MLA J R Lobo urged the state government to revive the existing Non-Resident Indian Forum form a separate NRI cell for the benefit of immigrants of coastal region. Addressing the press meet on Saturday, he said that there s need of working cell of the NRI Forum to address the problems […]

Mangalore :  Newly appointed ministers as well as elected representatives took part in an  interactive session on ‘Partnership and progress of coastal Karnataka’ held under the aegis of  Rachana, a forum of Catholic businessmen and entrepreneurs, at Bishop’s House on July 6, Saturday. The session saw discussion on various aspects pertaining to the development of […]

Mangalore: The Secondary final, tenth standard, annual exams.. have commenced on Monday on the coastal region from April 2, after PUC tests were over. 5141 students of 17 years of age in 45 centres in city and rural areas, appeared for the SSLC tests, of whom 313 are from Government schools, according to the Board […]

Bangalore: Gopal B. Hosur, who worked on Coastal region as IGP(Western Range) before being transferred to Bangalore, a senior rank police officer, had a narrow escape at Kunigal outskirts. When his car had a collision with a truck, at the Chottanahalli by-pass on the national highway, in Tumkur district last Sunday(March11). The former City Police […]

Mangalore: The new office building of Mangalore City Police Commissioner office premises, has been opened with great fanfare and jubilation by local police and the state department. Both CM and DGP-IGP had attended the opening ceremony and addressed the gathering on Saturday. It appears that the Commissioner of Police has been given a posh building […]

Mangalore: Ramnagar MP and JD-S state unit chairman, H.D. Kumaraswamy was in Mangalore at Kuppepadavu, attending his party convention on Sunday afternoon(January 22), to find a foothold in coastal region. Speaking on the occasion, he asked young voters to give up the “Communal” BJP and give his party an opportunity to serve people at large, […]