Mangalore: Monsoon arrived with vengeance to Karnataka Coast  ahead of schedule and caught officials unaware of pre-monsoon public works on clogged drainages and road repair works. The officials are totally ill-prepared to face monsoon onslaught due to back to back elections held recently. Any development or repair works were stalled in the name of election […]

Mangalore : Dakshina Kannada Deputy Commissioner N Prakash has directed the Assistant Commissioners and Tahsildars of the respective areas to ensure adequate water supply to several rural areas of the district. Addressing a meeting of district and taluk level officials at his office here on May 22, Wednesday, the DC while drawing attention of the […]

Mangalore : Dakshina Kannada MP Nalin Kumar Kateel has directed the authorities concerned to complete all the pending road works in the district before monsoons. Presiding over the District Vigilance and Monitoring Committee meeting held at Dakshina Kannada Zilla Panchayat, in Mangalore on Thursday, February 7, he also questioned the officials for the delay in […]

Udupi: With the arrival of monsoon in full gust, agricultural activities have picked up in the district. Farmers are seen busy in their farms with smiles writ large on their face. Some farmers say agricultural works have delayed this year due to delay in the arrival of monsoons. In Udupi district about 4.70 lakh hectare […]

Sullia: The DK district, especially hill areas in Puttur and Sullia had copious rains accompanied by thunder, lightning and strong winds, to cool the oven-hot region that needed drinking water for urban and rural areas alike. The flashy bolts in DK took one life, that of Girija(35) in Sullia taluk on Sunday evening when it […]

Mangalore: Has monsoon entered southern state of Kerala on the west coast? Yes. The farmers are getting busy in preliminary agricultural operations, of separating good seeds from the bad, ploughing the fields readied by organic compost manure, and welcoming rains in their regions in glee. Blankets are coming out at night. Rains have already lashed […]

Mangalore: When produce from farms keep on arriving in the market, prices start to come down. Local Vegetables (more of small durability) known as perishable have fluctuating prices depending upon stocks on hand in the shops on a given day. Fresh vegetables come at day break in huge loads, and get snapped up by local […]

(from P. Ramesh Rao) Desk : No one is against the Commonwealth Games. But only it should not be held in India, under Sheila Dixit, Suresh Kalmadi, others like Lalit Modi and Shashi Tharoor as in IPL-3, where sports and games begin with a BANG and end in whimper. We hear presently that many outstanding […]

Mangalore : The programme started at 10am on Monday (Aug 2), with information officer Rohini who gave the presents called Padi (Fruits, arecanuts and Paddy) to the Aati Kalenja Folk dance players. Once the players decorated as ‘Aati Kalenja’ dancers in folk dress, the programme started in a meeting. A foreword for the event was […]

Bangalore : Who says this year Monsoon will play truant? Not in Karnataka. Out of a dozen reservoirs connected to flood waters of rivers in this state, nearly 10 of them are reaching danger mark and sluice gates will have to be opened to allow excess water to flow out. No border dispute on Mahadayi […]