Mangaluru : Banks in Dakshina Kannada will have to sanction loans to 5,000 domestic solar power installations by the end of this financial year. Stating this at a meeting here on Saturday, the Lead District Manager (Syndicate Bank) Raghava Y. said that the government has considered sanctioning loans to renewable energy sector as priority sector […]

Mangalore, May 7: A total of 962 drinking water projects have been completed in the district at the a cost of Rs 51.79 crores, in order to tackle the drinking water problem, said Zilla Panchayat Chief Executive Officer Tulasi Maddineni. Speaking at the meeting convened at the Netravathi Auditorium of the Zilla Panchayat on Wednesday […]

Mangalore: Citizens’ Forum, represented by Kiran and Joy, Vidyadinakar and S P Ramesh conducted a protest rally of college students who are against privatization of drinking water and their sources in the state and carried out a program of collecting 1 lakh signatures against privatizations of water and presenting the list to the state Govt. […]

Gurpur: An empty Oil Tanker of national petroleum company with a capacity of over 1000 liters of Oil or Gas, lost control on Dec.25 during day time going at high speed in the Gurupur Market on a narrow road where cars had been parked by the road side near a temple, crashing in to a […]

Mangalore: Further to the complaint lodged by a citizen, T S Haneef Saheb this week, the MESCOM sent its Vigilante team led by officer Harishchandra on December 10 along with department officials from Shivmogga, chikkamagalur, Udupi and Kadri to Athavar to check up the document of KMC hospital in Athavar and also of KMC dental […]

Mangalore : The MESCOM Vigilance Dep.’s Sp and DSP conducted surprise raids in Attavar behind KMC in a 7 story building of dental college Manipal, on a complaint lodged by P.S Haneef Saheb in city, a social worker who alleged that the dental college had no permission from MCC to draw the power from KMC […]

Mangalore : State health and family welfare minister UT Khader who participated in a progress review meeting at the Udupi TMC on September 18, Wednesday,  directed the TMC  to complete all taken up projects in a phased  manner. He also directed the TMC to earmark some funds  to enable payment of  MESCOM and MCC arrears. […]

Mangalore : Yajnesh Shetty (20), a second year Engineering Student at Sri Devi College, Kenjar died tragically due to electrocution when he had been to the Ullal Nursing Home at Kudroli in Mangalore on September 15, Sunday night. It is learnt he had been with a friend to visit a person who was being treated […]

Subrahmanya  : The Kumaradhara Bridge a vital link to the famous pilgrim shrine of Kukke Sri Subrahmanya Temple was submerged on July 19, Friday afternoon, landing several people including school going children in trouble. They remained stranded there for several hours. Finally Sullia MLA S Angara made arrangements for special KSRTC buses to drop the […]

Bantwal :  Milan Shetty (19), son of Vasanthi, member of Pudu Gram Panchayat lost his life when he was electrocuted after he came into contact with a live wire that was dangling near Farangipete on July 10, Wednesday morning. The mishap took place when Milan had taken a cow to graze near his house. He […]