Mangaluru : Presiding over progress review meeting of Coastal Development Authority held at the auditorium of the office of the Dakshina Kannada district deputy commissioner on Thursday, principal secretary in the department of planning, programme coordination and statistics, and head of Coastal Development Authority, Shalini Rajneesh instructed the concerned to ensure that all the development […]

Udupi : Kota Srinivas Poojary, Minister for Ports and Fisheries, and Muzrai, said on Thursday that he would try to find solutions to the issues concerning fisheries harbours and jetties in the three coastal districts. Speaking to presspersons after offering bagina to the Swarna near the Sri Siddhivinayaka Temple at Shimbra here, Mr. Poojary said […]

Udupi: Former minister Pramod Madhwaraj said that the BJP MLAs should first clearly state the contributions of the Central government for the development of the coastal and Malnad districts before criticising the state budget presented by the JD(S) and Congress coalition government. Speaking to reporters here on Friday, the former minister alleged that the BJP MLAs […]

Mangaluru: The Muslims of coastal belt celebrated Eid-Ul-Fitr with joy on July 6 Wednesday. Muslim brothers of Mangaluru gathered at Idgah Masjid, Light House Hill, Bavutagudde Mangaluru to offer prayers to god Allah. District In-Charge Minister Ramanatha Rai, State Food and Civil Supplies Minister U T Khader, MLA J R Lobo, Deputy Commissioner A B […]

Mangaluru : The south-west monsoon, which had been playing hide-and-seek since its arrival in Karnataka, appears to have gained momentum from Friday with coastal Karnataka, including Mangaluru, receiving an average 100 mm rain. Heavy rain coupled with thunder pounded the Karnataka coast since Friday night and the onslaught continued on Saturday too kindling hopes among […]

Udupi : Urban Development Minister Vinay Kumar Sorake said, Rs ten crore has been released for coastal development projects. Speaking after inaugurating the World Tourism Day celebrations here on Sunday, the minister said that the wisdom lies in chalking out plans that would ensure no harm to the natural bounty and simultaneously utilize plenty of […]

Udupi: The local minister, Dr. V.S. Acharya stated in Katpadi near here, on Sunday that his Govt. had released Rs 45 crores as grant, to construct several mini-vented dams and bridge all over the coastal 300Km. region under the Coastal Development Authority headed by former minister B.Nagaraj Shetty. He laid the foundation stone for a […]

Udupi: A national workshop on ‘Coastal Kannada Dialects’ organised by Central Institute of Indian Languages of Mysore, with Central HRD ministry, and RG Pai Research Centre for Southern regional languages, disclose that there were several dialects of  Kannada quite varying, on west coast in Kanara district, with changes in grammar and even words. These dialects […]

Dr. N.S. Channappa Gowda, new deputy commissioner in 2011, said on Dec 3 at Deepa Hotel on MG Road in a Workshop that he inaugurated, that Mangalore city was growing and changing a lot faster, and basic citizenship amenities also had to grow and expand accordingly, to cover all words and an increasing population. It […]

Mangalore: The Coastal Security Service Personnel near Mangalore at the Arabian Sea region in Ullal, kotepura and Kudroli, on their inspection of all fishing boats moving there, with local fishermen as their eyes and ears, stumbled upon some alien boats on Tuesday which they did not see in the past here. The fisherman in those […]