Mangaluru: After 78 years of independence, the political system is trying to divide our society again through caste, religion, hatred and fundamentalism. People who divide such society are traitors. Mahatma Gandhi’s grandson and social thinker Tushar Gandhi opined Speaking on ‘relevance of Gandhi’s ideology to today’s youth’ on Friday, September 20 at a seminar organised […]

Bengaluru : Chief Minister Siddaramaiah said that Mahatma Gandhi is a great Hindu. The Ideals of Congress are its guiding lights. He was speaking at the Martyr’s Day programme organized to commemorate Mahatma Gandhi’s death Anniversary at the KPCC office today. Godse is BJP’s deity Assassin Godse killed gandhi on the pretext of bowing to […]

New Delhi : Prime Minister Narendra Modi, President Ram Nath Kovind and other political leaders on Friday paid tributes to Mahatma Gandhi and former prime minister Lal Bahadur Shastri on their birth anniversaries. Modi offered floral tribute to Bapu at Raj Ghat on his 151st birth anniversary. “We bow to beloved Bapu on Gandhi Jayanti. […]

New Delhi : President Ram Nath Kovind on Friday hailed the contentious Citizenship Amendment Act as “historic” in his address to a joint sitting of both houses of Parliament, prompting protests by some opposition members. He also said that debate and discussion on any issue, strengthens democracy while violence during protests weaken it. “The Citizenship […]

Gujarat : Vice President M Venkaiah Naidu on Saturday invoked Mahatma Gandhi’s “suggestion” to disband the “Congress as a platform” after India attained independence from the British in 1947. Naidu also said everybody celebrated the Supreme Court’s unanimous verdict on the Ayodhya dispute, clearing the decks for the construction of a Ram temple. The vice […]

Mangaluru : Mangaluru, on the 150th birth anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi, took the first stride towards having the first of the 50 proposed Miyawaki urban forests with saplings being planted on a small piece of land near the Dakshina Kannada Zilla Panchayat office premises at Urvastore here. To come up on a five-cent triangular-shaped land […]

Udupi : K. Raghupati Bhat, MLA, said on Wednesday that Mahatma Gandhi had given importance to cleanliness and hence, it was necessary to follow his message and make Udupi, a clean and plastic-free city. He was speaking after offering floral tributes to the statue of Mahatma Gandhi at Bhujanga Park, Ajjarkad, during a function organised […]

Mangaluru : Many city-based educational institutions are in uncertainty over the statement of D Vedavyas Kamath, MLA, Mangaluru South, who requested the authorities to advance Dasara holidays to September 28, instead of from October 6 to October 20. The reason is that most of the educational institutions declare holidays after conducting mid-term examinations. These examinations are […]

Mangaluru : English Association of University College, Mangaluru, celebrated Martyrs’ Day by paying tribute to Mahatma Gandhi through music and paintings on the occasion of his death anniversary, at Ravindra Kalabhavan on Wednesday. Principal M.A. Uday Kumar inaugurated the event titled ‘Remembering the Mahatma and martyrdom’. Vidhwan Gurudas Shenoy and troupe paid tribute to the […]

Mangaluru: On one side the city is changing into a Smart City and on the other side, the basic facilities that are vital for a city are inadequate. A good example for this would be the broken down concrete road sign board lying on the ground at several layouts in the city. Most of the […]