Mangaluru : Superintendent of Police Dr Sharanappa has expressed serious concern about the dearth police personnel in Dakshina Kannada. As per the norms there should be 250 police personnel for every lakh people. At present, it is around 100 in the state and just 55 in the district, he said. Speaking on the sidelines of […]
Moodbidri : State Minister for sports and youth affair and MLA Abhayachandra Jain is accused of threatening a journalist for publishing an article on Niddodi Power Project as per the information gathered from RTI. It is said that journalist Yashodhara V. Bangera, working as a time reporter of Vijayavani Daily, Namma Bedra.com and Spandana TV […]
Udupi: Congress leader and RTI activist Vasudeva Adiga who was kidnapped on Monday, January 7 and was found dead at Kadur in Chikmagalur was cremated on January 13, Sunday in the presence of a large number of people including family, friends, well-wishers and political leaders. The body was brought from Shimoga government hospital to Goliangadi […]
Kundapur : The body of Vadudeva Adiga, Congress leader and RTI activist was found in a decomposed state near Emmedoddi in Kadur taluk of Chikmagalur district on January 12, Saturday. Adiga was earlier reported missing while on way to his home at Vandaru on January 7 night. It was found that the killers had tied […]
Bangalore : The City police on Wednesday morning arrested Azadnagar Congress corporator Gowramma from Thanjavur, Tamil Nadu, in connection with the murder of RTI activist Lingaraju. Later in the day, the High Court constituted a special investigation team (SIT) headed by Bangalore’s Joint Commissioner of Police (Crime-West) Pranab Mohanty to probe the murder. Lingaraju was […]
Bangalore: In a major setback to the Karnataka Government, its minister for Law and Urban Developement Suresh Kumar, hitherto known as Mr Clean, quit his ministership and has tendered resignation to the Chief Minister on Saturday morning. The resignation follows a complaint against the minister stating he had purchased BDA site in G Category unauthorisedly. […]
Mangalore : Citizens; Action for Transparency of Dakshina Kannada organized a district level workshop on the topic ‘Strengthening democracy through the instrument of RTI’ at Town Hall on October 13, Thursday. Speaking after inaugurating the event, Justice H R Deshpande, District session court said that the Right to Information Act came in the year 2005, […]
Mangalore: A press meet was called by DKCC new General Secretary M.G. Hegde in Hampankatta office this morning, to inform the media that he had asked for full information under RTI Act as to any denotification had taken place around Vidhana Soudha and Vikas Soudha of the state properties before BJP govt, took over the […]
Mangalore, August 19: The Right to Information Clinic and one day workshop on Right to Information Act was at ISD Hall on August 19, Thursday. The workshop was jointly organized by Federation of Education Resource Centres (SSKO), DK and Padi-Velored. Speaking after the inauguration, J R Lobo, Principal of District Training Centre of DIET said […]
