Mangaluru : Notwithstanding favourable toofans [churning of the sea] following last week’s highly active monsoon, fishermen in the coastal region are wary of venturing into the sea as the initial catch may not fetch them a good price with fishmeal factories continuing their strike. The fishermen are apprehensive of not getting a good catch after […]

Mangaluru : All India Fish Meal and Oil Manufacturers and Merchants Association will stage indefinite stir from Thursday, opposing the Central government’s move to slap GST on the fish meal with effect from July 1, 2017. Former minister and All India Fish Meal and Oil Manufacturers and Merchants Association Chairman Pramod Madhwaraj told media persons […]

Mangalore: Hundreds of residents of Kasba Bengre Joined a protest rally to demonstrate against a proposed fish-meal unit near their homes, on Sunday, angered by state offering one acre land on 30-years lease to Someone to set up the production unit. Leaders of JD-S, Congress and other organizations addressed the gathering of protestors, who walked […]

Mangalore: Any vacant ground is not good enough for a bad for a bad smelling industrial unit like a fishmeal unit, them how can a playground be suitable for such a project? Residents of Kasba Bengre are up in protest, led by Moideen Juma Mosque and Super star sports club committees against the potential land-grabbing […]

Mangalore : Karnataka State Pollution Control Board (KSPCB), chairman A. S. Sadashivaiah inaugurated the Common Effluent Treatment Plant (CETP) belonging to the Fishmeal and Oil Manufacturers’ Association (FOMA) at Kotepura Ullal.  Speaking after inaugurating the Plant, Mr. Sadashivaiah appreciated FOMA for its initiative and said that only Doddaballapura, Bangalore, and Mangalore have such CETPs. He […]