Mangaluru: The Airports Authority of India’s Mangaluru International Airport (MIA) is emerging as one of the fastest growing airports in southern India. MIA has seen a 30% growth of passenger traffic since the last one year. The number passengers handled in this airport has gone up to 23.4 lakh during 2017-18 as against 17.5 lakh […]
Mangaluru: The acceptance of nomination letters for the eight Assembly constituencies will commence on April 17th and the election officials of their respective constituencies will accept the nomination papers from forenoon 11am to afternoon 3pm, informed district election officer Shashikant Senthil at a press meet. H.R. Nayak is the election officer for Belthangady Assembly constituency […]
Mangaluru: The State Government has appointed IPS officer Vipul Kumar as the new City Police Commissioner. The outgoing Police Commissioner T R Suresh has not been given any posting as to yet. Vipul Kumar is presently the IGP and Director of Karnataka Police Academy in Mysuru. An IPS officer of the 1999 batch he will […]
Mangaluru : The Police official with Barke Police launched a surprise search operation on the District Jail at 3 pm today, April 14. More than 20 officers & 30 men & women staff of different ranks take part in the operation, and search of all the barracks & blocks of jail. Restricted items. Cigarettes, Beedies […]
Mangaluru: The Indian National Trust for Art and Cultural Heritage (INTACH) Conservation Institute will complete the ongoing conservation and restoration of ancient wall paintings and oil paintings in St. Aloysius Chapel by April 2019, Nilabh Sinha, Principal Director of the Institute, said here on Thursday. Talking to reporters, Mr. Sinha said the INTACH was restoring […]
Mangaluru: ICGS Vikram, the first in class of seven new-generation offshore patrol vessels (OPVs) built by Larsen and Toubro contracted by the ministry of defence (MoD) in March 2015 under the government’s initiative of ‘Make in India,’ will be based in Mangaluru. Incidentally, Subash Bhamre, Union minister of state for defence, commissioned the OPV at […]
Mangaluru: As the countdown for the state’s Legislative Assembly has begun the Election Commission has taken up concrete measures for the proper implementation of the election model code of conduct. At this juncture, the incident of D.K. district election officer has come forward to take action against dereliction of duty by election officials has taken […]
Mangaluru: A single-window system to get permission from the Election Commission for various activities in view of the model code of conduct has been made operational in the office of the Returning Officer of Mangaluru City South Assembly constituency. The office is in Mangaluru City Corporation building at Lalbagh. The office will deal with the […]
Mangaluru: A day after the Election Commission issued a notice to the management of the Sri Durgaparameshwari Temple Kateel alleging one of their Yakshagana Melas violated the model code of conduct, the body has withdrawn its notice citing lack of evidence. The issue pertains to one of the six Melas, promoted by the temple, allegedly […]
Mangaluru: Mangaluru International Airport has been declared as the cleanest and the best maintained airport in the country in the 15 lakh to 50 lakh passenger handling airport category (B-category) by the Airports Authority of India, among AAI-managed airports. V.V. Rao, director of the airport, told reporters here on Tuesday that the survey was done […]
