Mangaluru : Orthopaedically handicapped, paraplegic persons/ patients and those with mental disabilities can travel using rail travel concessions without escorts from June 15 onwards. Until now, if they were found travelling alone without an escort, were treated as travelling without ticket and were being charged with penalty. A railway board circular has said that the […]

Mangalore: At an elder citizens ‘meeting held at Vishwas Trust, Valencia on Thursday (April 19), Deputy Commission Dr N.S. Channappa Gowda was present to hear the grievances of few of them. Santosh Kumar Kadri presided. They felt that an old-age monthly pension of Rs400 only, was too meager in view of inflation, and added that […]