Mangaluru: Terming the demand from legislators of Dakshina Kannada and Udupi districts under the leadership of Minister U.T. Khader to get sand extraction norms relaxed as a move that would facilitate illegal sand extraction from rivers in the Coastal Regulation Zone (CRZ) area, the National Environment Care Federation (NECF) has invited them for an open […]

Mangaluru: The poor performance of banks in lending to priority sector in Dakshina Kannada, known as the cradle of banking, in the first quarter of the current financial year came to the fore at a meeting here on Monday. Selvamani R., Chief Executive Officer, of Dakshina Kannada Zilla Panchayat, presided over the meeting. It was […]

Mangaluru: Selvamani R, a 2013 batch IAS officer has been appointed as the Dakshina Kannada Zilla Panchayat chief executive officer (CEO). An order to this effect was issued by the state government on Thursday. Selvamani R, who has served as Zilla panchayat chief executive officer of Bidar for the last 22 months will be replacing […]

Mangaluru: After our neighbouring state Kerala witnessed unexplainable instances of rivers getting dry, it is now the turn of undivided Dakshina Kannada district, wherein the flow of water in most of the rivers is said to be decreasing when compared to last year. Due to this, social activists, environmentalists and civilians are worried about the […]

Mangaluru: Urban Development & Housing Minister U T Khader, ordered the Dakshina Kannada (DK) administration, to present a proposal to shelve the conditions in the separate sand mining policy for coastal districts. This was being done to improve sand availability for constructions across the state, Khader said. He spoke after inspecting the new market complex […]

Mangaluru: Alleging major corruption in the Rafale deal, Dakshina Kannada district Congress Committteee (DKCC) staged a protest in Mangaluru on Tuesday. The protesters demanded a probe into Rafale deal to bring out the truth. A protest march was taken out from Ambedkar Circle to the deputy commissioner’s office in Mangaluru. The protesters shouted slogans against […]

Mangaluru: The mid-term holidays for students of primary and high schools in Dakshina Kannada district, originally scheduled between October 7 to 21 has been reduced by seven days i.e from October 14 to 21, to make up for the deficit in the school studies, resulting out of the holidays granted owing to the torrential rains. […]

Mangaluru: Dakshina Kannada district in-charge Minister U T Khader, on Monday, informed that a help desk would soon be set up for those people, returning from Gulf countries, having lost their jobs or having quit the same due to the enactment of the Nitaqat’ scheme in Saudi Arabia and prevailing job crisis in Gulf nations. […]

Udupi: The Bharatiya Janata Party continued its sway in its stronghold, coastal Karnataka, by winning 193 seats out of 386 seats of different urban local bodies that went to polls on August 31. The Congress came second by winning 145 seats, followed by 12 seats by the Janata Dal (Secular), 11 seats by the Social […]

Mangaluru: The Konkani Catholics in Karavali will be celebrating Mother Mary’s birthday as Monti Fest on September 8th and in preparation to the feast have already begun the 9 day novena and prayers since Thursday, August 30th. During these 9 days novena, little children take flowers with them to the church daily and dedicate it […]