Mangaluru : The 56th death anniversary of India’s first Prime Minister Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru was observed at Dakshina Kannada Congress Bhavan at Mallikatta on May 27, Wednesday. Many Congress leaders paid tributes to  Nehru’s portrait at the Congress Bhavan on the occasion. Former minister B Ramanatha Rai, Congress leaders PV Mohan, Shashidhar Hegde, Vishwas Kumar Das, Abdul […]

Bengaluru: Holding firmly on to a slice of history, the granddaughter-in-law of undivided Karnataka’s first chief minister K C Reddy, has been camping in the national capital, hoping to fight an election for an Assembly seat in the state. For the last two days, Vasantha Kavitha Shrikar K C Reddy has been waiting anxiously outside […]

Mangaluru : Union Law Minister D.V. Sadananda Gowda said here on Thursday that efforts are on to define sedition, which is in question since booking of cases against Kanhaiya Kumar and other students of Jawaharlal Nehru University for allegedly raising anti-India slogans. He was speaking during the valedictory of a programme on Mahatma Gandhi’s ideologies […]

New Delhi : The Congress party on Saturday celebrated the 125th birth anniversary of the country’s first prime minister, Jawaharlal Nehru. A series of events have been lined up by the party. On Saturday morning, former prime minister Manmohan Singh, Congress president Sonia Gandhi and vice president Rahul Gandhi paid floral tributes to Nehru at […]

Mangaluru : District In-charge Minister B Ramanath Rai said, a statue of Jawaharlal Nehru will be built at Nehru Maidan in Mangaluru. The minister paid a visit to the Nehru Maidan on Tuesday and reveiwed requirements towards developing the ground. Speaking to reporters, he said there are plans to build a statue of Nehru to […]

Mangaluru : Children in the age group of two to five years in Dakshina Kannada district will get an opportunity to collect unlimited puffed rice, groundnuts, banana, chocolates and biscuits of their choice at the ‘Makkala Habba,’ to be held at Shivarama Karanth Pilikula Nisargadhama, on November 14 and 15. Chairing a meeting here on […]

Mangaluru : On the eve of 125th birth anniversary celebrations of former prime minister of India, Jawaharlal Nehru, Mangalore University will organise an international conference on the theme “Rediscovering Nehru’s ideas in contemporary India” at Mangala Auditorium of the university in second or third week of November. Briefing media persons at the university senate hall […]

Bangalore: The funds provided to the State under the Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission (JNNURM) have come as a bonanza for Bangalore enabling infrastructure development in a big way over the last eight years. With the State government recently constituting a Vision Group for Bangalore, experts feel it is time to look back at […]

Bareilly (UP) : Claiming that Congress was portraying Prime Minister Manmohan Singh as “weak”, Samajwadi Party chief Mulayam Singh Yadav on Thursday said the PM “should have resigned” after the ordinance on convicted lawmakers was dismissed as “nonsense” by party Vice-President Rahul Gandhi. “The Prime Minister is being made weak. And those in his own […]

Mangalore  : Union Government would sanction Rs 200 crores to Mangalore under the ambitious Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission. The assurance comes from Union Urban Development Minister Kamalnath after Union Minister for Surface Transport Oscar Fernandes met him and made an appeal. Kamalnath told Oscar that Rs 100 crore would be released immediately while […]