Mangaluru: The Budget 2018-19 presented by Chief Minister Siddaramaiah on Friday has paved way for the construction of a vented dam-cum-bridge across the Netravathi between Harekala and Adyarkatte to provide drinking water to areas on the southern bank of the river, including Ullal. Mr. Siddaramaiah has earmarked ₹ 174 crore for the project to be […]

Mangaluru: The Southern Railway will take up work to double the railway line between Netravathi Cabin and Mangaluru Central Station as well as construction of an additional platform in the coming fiscal after the Union Budget provided about  21.4 crore for the project. Line doubling work between Netravathi Cabin and the Central Station (1.5 km) […]

Mangaluru : Heavy rain in the Western Ghats and the Kukke Subrahmanya area since two days has resulted in the Puttur-Kaniyoor-Panja- Kukke Subrahmanya Road submerging under the Kumaradhara water near the temple town on Wednesday. As a result, traffic on the road between the temple town and Balpa has come to a halt. People from […]

Mangaluru: A team of police officials busted an illegal sand mining racket at Adyar village in the wee hours of Saturday; they seized three lorries but the accused managed to escape. The accused were mining sand on the banks of the Netravathi behind Sahyadri College of Engineering at about 1.45 am. The police, apart from […]

Mangaluru: The Mangaluru City Corporation has plugged the leakage in one of the two main pipelines bringing water from the Thumbe Vented Dam to the city on Thursday afternoon and resumed pumping. Mayor Harinath told that several parts of the city did not get water since Wednesday. However, supply has been restored now. The corporation […]

Mangaluru : Minister for Forests, Environment, Ecology and in-charge of Dakshina Kannada B Ramanath Rai said here on Monday that the government has ordered survey of land which will be submerged by storing water in the new vented dam being built across the Netravathi at Thumbe. Addressing media, he said that the new dam was […]

Mangaluru : Mayor Harinath said here on Wednesday that water storage at the Thumbe vented dam will be enough for a day’s supply to the city. In a release, he said that inflow in the Netravathi had stopped and hence it would be impossible to lift water from the dam. The river has completely dried […]

Mangaluru : Two medical colleges in Dakshina Kannada district have decided to partially shut down hostels. They have asked several boarders to return home, till the water situation improves. While Kasturba Medical College (KMC) has sent back about 400 MBBS students from the second and third year batches in their hostels till May 15, Father […]

Mangaluru : The water level at Thumbe vented dam depleting to 6.6 feet on Friday evening, against the maximum level of 13 feet, the only hope for Mangaluru City Corporation (MCC) is the 2 mcm (million cubic metres) of water available at Disha Hydel Power Project dam across the Kumaradhara, a tributary of the Netravathi, […]

Mangaluru : Scarcity of water in the Netravathi, the main source of water for drinking and industrial purpose, has forced the Mangaluru City Corporation to supply water once in two days from April 20. Announcing this, B. Ramanath Rai, Minister in-charge of Dakshina Kannada and Minister for Forests, Environment and Ecology, said that water would […]