Mangaluru: The demand for inclusion of Tulu in the 8th Schedule of the Constitution echoed strongly on Sunday with Sri Kshetra Dharmastala dharmadhikari D Veerendra Heggade requesting Prime Minister Narendra Modi to fulfill the long-pending demand. At a public function organised to distribute RuPay cards to beneficiaries of Shri Kshetra Dharmasthala Rural Development Project at […]

Mangaluru: Sri Kshetra Dharmastala Dharmadhikari D Veerendra Heggade on Tuesday said spirituality and social service cannot be separated. During the felicitation on the occasion of 50th Vardyantyutsava of his Pattabhisheka in Dharmasthala, Heggade said. “If you ask me how I mix spirituality with social service, my answer is simple — both should be parallel. If […]

Mangaluru: Belthangady taluk in Dakshina Kannada is all set to celebrate 50th anniversary of ‘Pattabhisheka’ of Dr D Veerendra Heggade on Tuesday, October 24, 2017. A number of events have been arranged to mark the anniversary and streets near Dharmasthala Manjunatheshwara temple and nearby areas have been decorated. Special poojas are scheduled to be offered […]

Mangaluru: The muhurat of ‘Kanurayana’, a film on the 35-year journey of the Sri Kshetra Dharmasthala Rural Development Project (SKDRDP), was held at Dharmastala on Friday. D Veerendra Heggade, dharmadhikari, Sri Kshetra Dharmasthala, also the chairman of the SKDRDP, launched the shooting of the film and his wife Hemavathi Heggade gave the clap for the […]

Mangaluru ; Dharmasthala Dharmadhikari D Veerendra Heggade would be the chief guest at the International Yoga day celebrations at Rajpath in New Delhi on June 21. The union government had extended the invitation to Heggade, the hereditary administrator of the Sri Manjunatheshwara temple at Dharmasthala, considering his contribution to promote Yoga, Prashanth Shetty, principal of […]

Manglore:The Central Bureau of Investigation’s Special Branch is yet to make headway in the investigation of the murder of a 17-year-old a pre-university college girl near Dharmasthala two years ago. The girl went missing on October 8, 2012 and the body was found the next day at a secluded place near Dharmasthala. Activists have accused […]

Mangalore : Sri Kshetra Dharmasthala Rural Development Programme (SKDRDP) organized two day national conference on ‘Sustaining small holder agriculture – Issues and challenges,’ at Mahotsava Bhavan in Dharmasthala on September 24, Wednesday. Delivering the presidential address, Dharmasthala Dharmadhikari D Veerendra Heggade said that the merging of agriculture related departments and introduction of single window system […]

Beltangady : A total of 142 couples tied a nuptial knot at ‘Godhooli Lagnam’ on the 43rd customary annual mass marriage ceremony organized under the aegis of Dharmasthala Shree Manjunatheshwara Temple at Dharmasthala on May 2, Friday. Participating as the chief guest, State minister for Sports and Youth affiars K Abhaychandra Jain advised the couple […]

Dharmasthala: Dharmadhikari Dr. D Veerendra Heggade and other dignitaries of the holy town welcomed Mudayi chariot or Tulu Theru here on Saturday Dec.28 when it arrived from Odiyoor Matt with Swami Sri Mohandasa of Manila in attendance. Sri Gurudevananda Swamiji of Sri Kshetra Odiyoor, Sri Lakshman Sapalya, President of Tulu Theru Belthangady Samithi, Ravindra Oppanthaya, […]

Dharmasthala : New minister for Forest, Ecology and Environment B Ramanatha Rai visited Sri Kshetra Dharmasthala on May 23. Thursday and offered prayers t o the Lord. Later he met D Veerendra Heggade, Dharmadhikari of Dharmasthala. Rai who spoke to reporters later, said there were plans to set up an urban eco park near Pilikula […]