Mangaluru: Several independent candidates who banked on people to vote for them based on their goodwill and development plans failed miserably. Former deputy superintendent of police, Anupama Shenoy, Uchila in Kaup constituency, resigned from her job to fight against injustice and started her own Bharatiya Janashakti Congress Party. She ended up getting a mere 1,634 […]

Mangaluru: Abuse of the Western Ghats has turned out to be an issue for the first time in an Assembly election in Dakshina Kannada where campaigning ended on Thursday. Environmentalists took out a week-long campaign against the Yettinahole or the Netravathi diversion project, while the government called it an Integrated Drinking Water Project, highlighting all […]

Mangaluru: Greens, led by Sahyadri Sanchaya and the National Environment Care Federation (NECF), have decided to start a campaign to oppose the stand of political parties with regards to environmental issues, pertaining to coastal districts and the Western Ghats. To oppose illegal sand mining, the felling of trees, construction activities on Western Ghats, encroachment of […]

Mangaluru : Sahyadri Sanchaya, a group of environmentalists, has called upon the people to opt for NOTA (None Of The Above) in the upcoming Panchayat elections, to oppose the Yettinahole project. Activist Dinesh Holla, who addressed reporters in Mangaluru on Wednesday, said that both, the Congress and the BJP, had been trying to make fools […]

Mangalore : The Aam Aami Party around 18 office bearers of the Dakshina Kannada unit of AAP announced their mass resignations on Saturday alleging that the party was lacking internal democracy and its leaders were removed from ground realities. “When AAP was launched its philosophy met our aspirations as it promised to represent the interest […]

Mangalore : People in large number were seen queued up outside various polling stations in Mangalore, as the Lok Sabha elections polling commenced in Dakshina Kannada Constituency on April 17, Thursday at 7 am. A total of 14 candidates including Janardhan Poojary of Congress, Nalin Kumar Kateel of BJP, M R Vasudeva of Aam Aadmi […]