Udupi : Rajya Sabha member and AICC General Secretary Oscar Fernandes has said that that the measures of demonetisation and Goods and Services Tax (GST) implemented by the Union government have turned the country’s economy upside down. He was speaking at the “black day’ function held by the district unit of the Congress to protest […]

Mangaluru : The district BJP celebrated three years of Prime Minister Narendra Modi-led NDA government at the centre with ‘Sab Ka Saath, Sab Ka Vikas’ programme at Town Hall here on Wednesday June 7. Speaking after inaugurating the programme, Union Minister of State for Law and Justice, Electronics and Information Technology P P Choudhary said […]

Mangaluru : Dakshina Kannada MP Nalin Kumar Kateel said that in the past three years, the Union government had released Rs 13,000 crore for various development works in the district. His statement came in the wake of third anniversary celebrations of the BJP-led Union government on Friday. MP Kateel yet again noted that the Mangaluru-Bengaluru […]

Hubballi/Raichur: It may take at least 10 days for the central inter-ministerial teams that are on a tour of drought-affected districts of Karnataka to submit a comprehensive report with their observations to the Union government. Split into three teams, the central teams visited drought affected places in the State, and will reach Bengaluru on Monday. While […]

Bengaluru: The Union government on Sunday launched the first phase of the all India Measles and Rubella (MR) vaccine immunisation campaign from Bengaluru for the four states of Karnataka, Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh and Goa and the Union Territory of Puducherry. The campaign is a part of the Central government’s mission to eliminate measles and control […]

Udupi: Minister of State for Fisheries, Youth Services and Sports Pramod Madhwaraj on Saturday directed the engineers of the Public Works Department and National Highways Authority of India to do a survey and submit a report on the widening (four-laning) work completed on the Hejmady-Kundapur stretch of National Highway 66 within four days. He chaired […]

Udupi: “Instead of commenting on the union government on the drought relief funds, the state government should try to utilise the available funds wisely,” said state BJP President B S Yeddyurappa. While speaking to the reporters on Tuesday, he said that the state government should try to release the relief fund and then it should […]

New Delhi: Rubbishing rumours of shortage of salt in the country, the Union government today said there has been no increase in prices of the commodity which is being sold at Rs 14-15 per kg in retail markets. “This is rubbish. There is no truth in this rumour. There is no shortage of salt in […]

Mangaluru: “Central government has directed to form civil protection unit at Dakshina Kannada, Udupi and Uttara Kannada. As per the directions the units will be formed in next six months,” said Home Guard’s ADGP N Shivakumar. He was speaking after visiting the Home Guard’s office at Maryhill. “At present civil protection unit is functioning at […]

New Delhi: The Congress said on Monday that the Union government was sending out confusing signals on Kashmir. Party spokesperson Manish Tewari said that a day after Union Finance Minister Arun Jaitley took a hard line on the continuing crisis in the Valley, Prime Minister Narendra Modi, while meeting a delegation of Opposition parties from […]