Mangaluru : The Dakshina Kannada Milk Producers’ Union (DKMUL) will add 40 ml to every litre of milk supplied to consumers from June 1. The DKMUL has been procuring more quantity of milk from dairy farmers. However, owing to the closure of hotels, and restaurants, the demand for milk has reduced. Instead of suspending the […]

Mangaluru : The rate of onion is proving a problem for consumers in Mangaluru, with a kilogram of onion now priced at a whopping Rs 100 to Rs 105 in the market. Onion had been selling at Rs 70-80 a kg over the past few weeks. Although onion is imported from Egypt, it has not […]

Mangaluru : Mangaluru City Corporation (MCC) decided to recover pending water bills Rs 20.64 crore from 50,000 consumers. Speaking in a press meet at MCC office on Thursday, Mayor Kavitha Sanil said, that total 166 consumers owe the MCC above Rs 1 lakh and one consumer has an overdue of Rs 7.47 lakh towards water […]

Mangaluru : Consumers and farmers’ representatives have said that people should not have to bear the burden of the failure of Mangalore Electricity Supply Company Ltd (Mescom) in collecting bills and bringing down the transmission and distribution losses. They were participating in a public hearing by the Karnataka Electricity Regulatory Commission on Tuesday over Mescom’s […]

Mumbai : Private utility Tata Power yesterday said it has added nearly 85,000 low-end consumers in its network in the city between August 2012 and June 2013.“Tata Power has added over 85,000 low-end consumers since August last year resulting in an addition of around 8,000-9,000 consumers per month,” it said in a statement. The Maharashtra […]

New Delhi :  The consumers are likely to be  in for more shocks after the recent shocker of a steep hike in petrol prices.  A high level committee meeting led by Finance Minister Pranav Mukherjee  to be held on May 25, Friday, is expected to discuss about a probable hike even in diesel and LPG […]