Mangalore : The Ramadan fasting has begun in DK and Udupi districts on July 10, Wednesday following the sighting of the New Moon at Wayanad in Kerala on July 9, Tuesday. Due to the cloudy weather moon could not be sighted in the district. The Qazis of both the districts have said Ramadan fasting will […]
Mangalore : The Akhila Bharatha Karmika Sangha (ABKS) members who are on a hunger strike in front of the Deputy Commissioner’s office since seven days protesting against the discrepancies in the District ESI Hospital have adopted an adamant stand that the DC should meet them at the protest venue and hear their plea. The protest […]
Belthangady: During Lent of 40 days fasting on the last Friday(on March 30) before Good Friday(of Crucifixion of Christ on Golgotha hill by Romans), Catholic devotees offering service at various stations here of the bearing of Cross on Gadaikallu hill(or Jamalabad) in Nada village, in Belthangady taluk, were tested by angry wild Bees that attacked […]
Mangalore: The esteemed Pejwar Math Swami Vishwesha Tirtha (81) has declared on Friday that he would go on 3 days fast at the Padubidri temple to protest against removal of 2 experts chosen by him for a committee appointed to study the have created by Udupi Power Corporation Ltd. (UPCL), while producing 250MW of power […]
Mangalore: Four members of ABKS (Sudatta Jain, Santosh Kaptar, Raju Kulal and Chandrahasa Shetty) who went on a sympathetic 3-day fasting, supporting Anna Hazare’s similar performance in Bandra Kurla grounds of MMRD Authority in Mumbai on Dec 27, had to cut short the fast on second day itself, as Hazare was sick and had called […]
Mangalore: Four members of All India Workers’ Union (ABKS) have started a 3- day fast on a platform built near DCO gates in front of SBI here, in a token of sympathy towards the 3-day fasting declared by Anna Hazare at Bandra-Kurla (MMRDA) grounds from Tuesday morning, Dec 27. The fast is undertaken for a […]
Mangalore: The Ramzan, a fasting month in 1432 of the Islamic calendar, has begun with Muslim across coastal Karnataka, Kerala spotting a lean crescent moon with eagle eye, in the midst of rain bearing dark clouds on Sunday evening at Kasargod. The holy month has also begun in the middle-east countries and south/coastal western India […]
Mangalore: Roadside/footpath vendors demanded appropriate facility to carry on their trade in city and conducted a day-long fasting in front of Palika buildings on MG road, in city on Monday shouting slogans al9ong with some sympathizers. JDS leader M.G Hegde lashed out at MCC to fulfill the simple demands of poor groups of roadside vendors. […]
Bangalore: Pejavar Mutt pontiff Visvesha Thirtha Swami today threatened to go on an indefinite fast in Mangalore from tomorrow if the ruling BJP failed to honour its promise of withdrawing notification on acquisition of land for SEZ in that city by this evening. “Chief Minister B S Yeddyurappa met me three days back and promised […]
Bangalore: It’s official now. The senior (JD-S) CM HDK will fast unto death on July 9,to force an enquiry into the Junior (BJP) CM Yeddy’s charge that Gowda family has illegal wealth amounting to Rs1,500 crores. The former JD-S CM threw a challenge at present CM(BJP)to choose one of the 2 venues suggested, either in […]
