Sullia : In a tragic incident reported, a wild elephant attacked two bikers at Bisile ghat near Kukke Subrahmanya on Friday morning. Pillion rider Ganesh was killed on the spot while rider Sunil suffered severe injuries and was rushed to a hospital. It is said that the duo was from Hassan.

Mangaluru : At a meeting convened by Deputy Commissioner A.B. Ibrahim to review preparedness to face monsoon and its implications, the Tahsildar said that Kasba Bengre, Pandeshwar, Hoige Bazaar, Bokkapatna, Jeppinamogaru and Bajal Kudpu areas in the city are prone to floods. The Deputy Commissioner asked all Tahsildars of the taluk to prepare an action […]

Subrahmanya : The bodies of two II PU students who were said to have drowned in the Kumaradhara at Kukke Subrahmanya on Monday were recovered on Tuesday. The Subrahmanya police said Jitesh A.R. (17) and Stephan Raj (17), students of Kukke Subrahmanya Pre-University College, and eight of their classmates went to the bathing ghat for […]

Mangaluru : The BJP will take out a Jana Sankalpa Yatra from Kukke Subrahmanya to Kateel between November 13 and November 22 to draw the attention of people to the “failures” of the Congress government in the State and to oppose the Yettinahole diversion project. Addressing media here on Wednesday, Pratap Simha Nayak, president, Dakshina […]

Sullia : A 53-year-old man, who had been reported as missing from his house near Kukke Subrahmanya on July 14, was dead in the forests of Peruvaje near Sullia on Wednesday. The Sullia police arrested the wife of the deceased and four others on the charge of murder. The Sullia police said Lalita (38) filed […]

Mangaluru: Karnataka Rajya Hindulida Vargagala Jagriti Vedike, expressed the disaffection over the order of Karnataka High Court on allowing made snana to continue in its traditional form at Kukke Subrahmanya temple. Speaking in a press conference held at Mangaluru K. Shivaramu, president of KRHVJV said, the practice of made snana is ugly and inhuman practice, […]

Mangalore : The Supreme Court has vacated the stay on the proposal of the State government to modify made snana — the controversial ritual of rolling over plantain leaves with leftovers of food partaken by Brahmins — that is practised at the Kukke Subrahmanya temple in Dakshina Kannada. In its November 8, 2012 judgment, the […]

Bangalore: After a humble visit to Kukke Subrahmanya Temple to conduct a special worship recently and make views to redecorate the doors of God’s seat in golden sheets, UB boss Vijay Mallya is drawn back from a precipitous fall in his fortunes, to play a second innings. His Kingfisher airlines, neck-deep in debts is ready […]

Bangalore: Over 65 monks who head various monasteries in Karnataka, spoke against the age-old Kukke Subrahmanya Temple religious practice of ‘Made-Snana’, in an assembly of renunciates at the Freedom Park in city on Monday. Their protest show was to seek a ban on ‘Made Snana’ practice of rolling over plantain leaves left by Brahmins after […]

Kukke Subrahmanya: The Kukke Subrahmanya temple in Dakshin Kannada district (Belthangady taluk) ha not only an ISO mark on its services and administration, apart from made Mahadeshwara Temple in Kollegal taluk in the whole state, but it stands at the top of 10 richest temples patronized or protested by Hindu devotees in Karnataka with current […]