Mangaluru: Mangala swimming pool is going to be upgraded and Mangaluru City Corporation (MCC) has already begun the work on it. In the same way, the little children in the city are showing much interest to learn swimming and hence, the corporation is thinking of creating a separate swimming pool dedicated for the children. The […]

Mangaluru : Mangaluru City Corporation (MCC) will rename Mangaluru Town Hall after social reformer of yesteryears, Kudmul Ranga Rao, who worked for the welfare of the downtrodden in the coastal district decades ago. Kudmul Ranga Rao was a social reformer from Kudmul village in Dakshina Kannada district who established the Depressed Classes Mission in 1897 […]

Mangaluru : MCC served a water bill recently of Rs 1 lakh against their monthly average consumption of Rs 300 at most. A middle-class family in Kodialbail received a shocker bill. Many households have reported such inflated bills; some customers said the multi-purpose workers (MPW) who take the meter reading were overworked, leading to faulty […]

Mangaluru: Street side vendors near the State Bank area were evicted by Mangaluru City Corporation on Tuesday, July 31st. This eviction drive by the MCC confronted much resentment from the road side vendors who alleged that the MCC had taken this action without giving any prior notice. They complained that the MCC had failed to […]

Mangaluru: City residents were shocked to see their water bills reading a higher price. It has been gathered that a hotel which used to normally receive a water bill around Rs 1,600, received a bill for Rs 18,000. Similarly, in another case a person who would receive a bill was Rs 80 got a bill […]

Mangaluru : The proposal on pay parking lots has reached the City Police Commissioner. Locations will be identified shortly, said City Police Commissioner T R Suresh. The pay parking lots will be identified in association with the Mangaluru City Corporation. In the weekly phone-in programme here on Friday, a caller told the commissioner:” Pay parking areas […]

Mangaluru : The door-to-door waste collection was disrupted in Mangaluru City Corporation (MCC) limits for two days on Thursday and Friday. While workers of Antony Waste Handling Private Limited (AWHPL) stopped collection of waste, garbage was piled up at various places in the city. Meanwhile, residents in all the 60 wards had no option to […]

Mangaluru : After the civic workers boycotted the work demanding an increase in wages and other issues with the contractor, the city witnessed tonnes of garbage piled up across Mangaluru on Friday . Around 750 workers stopped lifting garbage from Thursday itself pressing for their demands. They alleged that the contractor has not revised their salary since […]

Mangaluru: Even before the sanitation workers strike in Bengaluru causing problem to the city for a couple of days has come to an end, a similar problem has emerged in Mangaluru on Thursday. On Thursday, the sanitation workers of Antony Waste Management Company protested and refused to collect garbage accusing the company of not paying […]

Udupi: Deputy Commissioner Priyanka Mary Francis said on Tuesday that there were 9,78,503 voters in Udupi district — 4,70,730 men, 5,07,754 women, and 19 others — as on February 28. Addressing presspersons here, Ms. Francis said the Election Commission had published the voters’ lists for the five Assembly constituencies of Udupi district (Byndoor, Kundapur, Udupi, […]