Udupi : Human Rights Protection Foundation (HRPF) president Ravindrananth Shanbhag, on Tuesday, that the district administration should take steps to protect a senior citizen Bhoja Shetty (77) who had been abandoned by his children. Addressing presspersons here, Dr. Shanbhag said that Mr. Shetty had to give up his studies when he was 12 and work […]

Mangaluru: Ravindranath Shanbhag, president of Human Rights Protection Foundation (HRPF), said on Monday that the Kundapur Civil and JMFC Court has ordered the Passport Office to restrain a litigant, Jagadish alias Jagannath of Nada village of Kundapur taluk, preventing him from fleeing abroad as he had “cheated his lawfully wedded wife by marrying another woman”. […]

Udupi: Ravindranath Shanbhag, president of Human Rights Protection Foundation (HRPF), said on Tuesday that the family of a construction worker had not got any compensation even after four-and-a-half years of his death at Panjimar near Shirva. Addressing presspersons here, Dr. Shanbhag said that this had happened though there was a scheme for payment of  2 […]

Mangaluru: Ravindranath Shanbhag, president, Human Rights Protection Foundation (HRPF), on Tuesday said that a woman student and her mother were being harassed on the pretext of deducting the premium amount from a loan account of the Synd Vidya education loan. Addressing presspersons here, Dr. Shanbhag said that the mother was receiving threat calls demanding the […]

Udupi: Ravindranath Shanbhag, president of the Human Rights Protection Foundation (HRPF), said that he would not accept the Rajyotsava Award as a mark of protest against the “lackadaisical implementation” of the Maintenance and Protection of Senior Citizens Act in the State. Addressing the media, Shanbhag said that many senior citizens who approached him for seeking […]

Mangaluru: Mangaluru resident, Ram Poojary who accused in cheating case remitted the sum of Rs 2, 25,000 to the JMFC court on Thursday. The victim, senior citizen Girija Balegar who cheated by the accused will receive the amount from the court according to the legal proceedings. The JMFC court here on Thursday had issued a […]

Udupi : The 42-year-old Jacinta Mendonca, finally reunited with her family on Friday night, recounted what she went through at her employer’s house at Yanbu in Saudi Arabia, here on Saturday. She was made to work for 16 hours a day in the three mansions where her employer’s three wives and 28 children lived. This […]