Mangalore : A cheque towards providing medicines to poor patients admitted to Ladygoschen Hospital, was handed over to  the hospital authorities  by Karuna Kiran Foundation, a unit of GT Foundation. The Foundation Managing Trustee Dr V Ravichandran handed over a cheque for Rs 25,000 as a first instalment and added cheque for an equal amount  […]

Mangalore: Girish Putran, the President of the JD(S) Hoigebazar Fisheries Wing was found murdered amid bushes near MRPL D Gate in Bajpe police station limits on the night of December 22, Saturday. Putran (50), an active JD(S) worker was reported missing since the evening of December 21, Friday. With stab injuries found all over his […]

Mangalore : Villagers of Moodapadavu near here were virtually terrified to notice trucks from MRPL dumping chemical wastes in a land near a stream flowing in the area. By the time the dumping of wastes came to light, several truck loads of wastes had been dumped and covered with mud. However, villagers were quick to […]

Mangalore : Eminent Kannada film maker Nagathihalli Chandrashekhar has been chosen for the MRPL Karnataka Rajyotsava Award -2012”. The Award carries a cash prize of Rs 25000 and a citation. This award has earlier been  conferred on several distinguished achievers including Balipa Narayana Bhagavatha, Srinath Marathe, Amritha Someshwar and Jayanth Kaikini.

Mangalore: PP Upadhya, Managing Director of MRPL has said that there were plans to further strengthen the MRPL in the days to come in order to make it environment friendly and also to cause least inconvenience to the local people. He  was giving a talk on future projects of MRPL at a programme organized in […]

Mangalore : The Hydrogen Plant set up at the  MRPL third phase plant was inaugurated by CC Chaturvedi, Secretary of the Union Petroleum and Natural Gas Ministry on Friday. With this  the MRPL has achieved a decisive milestone in  the Third phase expansion projects Speaking on the occasion, he hoped that the third phase works […]

Mangalore: There is yet another mishap in Mangalore Refineries and Petrochemicals Ltd. This time a newly joined employee of the plant lost his life while he was  crushed by a fan in one the chimneys of the plant. The deceased Meghanath (26) from Madhya Pradesh was a contract worker who had joined just a month […]

Mangalore: ‘Water, Water, everywhere, but not a drop to drink, ‘was the Wailing song in DK district in city and towns like Bantwal till yesterday. But the three coastal districts of DK, Udupi and Kasaragod (now in Kerala) had thunders and lightning with winds to accompany good showers on Thursday and Friday, to wipe out […]

Mangalore: The 5th year commencement celebrations at Sri Gopala Krishna Temple in Shaktinagar and the offering of 1 crore Tulsi leaves to the deity by devotees took place as on Thursday morning April 19 at Shaktinagar. Last night, a special pandal erected for visitors was ruined by sharp winds and heavy rains in the area. […]

Mangalore: The giant oil refining company-MRPL, faced closure at least on a temporary measure, as DC ordered stoppage of Netravathi water Supply to run it. The DC has powers to do so. The in take by MRPL had been considerably reduced by last Sunday, and the huge oil Company could not recover from the shock […]