Mangalore: Oscar Fernandes, MP and PV Mohan, AICC member met Salman Khurshid, Union external affairs minister and gave a memorandum and discussed the need for establishing a passport issuing office in Mangalore. Oscar appraised the difficulties and inconveniences for people of coastal Karnataka and adjoining districts like Chikmagalore, Kodagu and Shimoga in getting passport and […]

Mangalore: The District Congress Committee led by Ivan D’Souza staged a protest in front of the Passport office of Mangalore at Kodialbail protesting against the several discrepancies in the office. The protestors demanded better facilities in the office and also that it be shifted to any other ideal location instead of Kodialbail. Addressing the agitators, […]

Mangalore: The Passport office is still not functioning well and three are red-tape delays over issue of valid passports, even under Tatkal (immediate issue) plan for those who applied to obtain quick passport. There are several such persons here who had to change the dates of booked travel abroad, because there was no passport on […]

Mangalore:  Complaints ware made since last Monday (October 17) that in the local Passport office, stamp papers obtained from DK DC Office by applicants were not accepted. About 100 passport applicants were sent back since Monday, it is stated here. An application for passport has to be presented on stamp-paper, but why the rejection for […]

Mangalore: The year was better than 2009 in any ways with considerable rainfall and bumper harvests in many states. There were floods in many states in the north India, but Karnataka had both dry areas and those receiving rainfall, it was in Sept – October 2009, on year ago, that floods had devastated northern regions […]