Madikeri : Zilla Panchayat members on Wednesday alleged that the selection of students for the sports school at Ponnampet in Virajpet taluk has not been done in a transparent manner. Following pandemonium in the general body meeting of the Zilla Panchayat on the issue, Zilla Panchayat president B A Harish intervened and said the selection process can […]

Mangaluru : Members of the Karnataka Rajya Akshara Dasoha Naukarara Sangha district unit staged a protest on Tuesday, urging the state government to meet their demands, including the implementation of minimum wages for mid-day meal workers. The members protested in front of the Zilla Panchayat office in the city. The protesters said that the Centre […]

Mangaluru : Banks in Dakshina Kannada have been asked to improve their credit-deposit (CD) ratio. Zilla Panchayat CEO Dr R Selvamani, addressing a district consultative committee meeting at the Zilla Panchayat Netravathy Hall on Tuesday, said that CD ratio as on September 30 was 57.96%, showing a decrease of 3.89% when compared to the corresponding […]

Mangaluru : Chief minister B S Yediyurappa will arrive on a one-day visit to the city to participate in various programmes on Saturday, December 21. The CM is expected to chair the review meeting at zilla panchayat auditorium after his arrival here on Saturday afternoon. Later, he will particpate in the 17th annual floodlit Koti-Chennaya […]

Mangaluru : The state government headed by Chief Minister B S Yediyurappa has taken the initiative to develop Kaginele, the birthplace of saint-poet Kanakadasa, said MP and state BJP president Nalin Kumar Kateel on Friday. He was addressing the gathering during the Kanaka Jayanti programme organised by Dakshina Kannada district administration, Dakshina Kannada Zilla Panchayat […]

Belagavi : Housing Minister V Somanna said that Rs 450 crore have been directly credited to the accounts of the flood affected whose houses have been damaged due to floods in the state. Middlemen have been avoided in the process with compensation getting credited to accounts of the beneficiaries. Somanna inspected houses damaged in flood-affected […]

Mangaluru : Chief Executive Officer of the Dakshina Kannada Zilla Panchayat Selvamani R. said on Monday that the panchayat has called a meeting of presidents and panchayat development officers (PDOs) of gram panchayats on September 20 to discuss the maintenance aspects of Reverse Osmosis (RO) plants (safe drinking water units) set up by the government […]

Mangaluru : The Dakshina Kannada zilla panchayat and Public Education department jointly celebrated district-level Teachers’ Day at Town Hall in the city on Thursday, September 5. The programme was inaugurated by former minister U T Khader along with MLC Bhojegowda. Speaking on the occasion, retired principal of Besant Women’s College Dr M Prabhakar Joshi said, […]

Udupi : Kota Srinivas Poojary, Minister for Ports and Fisheries, and Muzrai, said on Friday that a high-level team of departmental officers would check the works belonging to the Ports and Fisheries Departments which were progressing slowly. Chairing a meeting on issues related to the Departments of Ports and Fisheries and Inland Water Transport at […]

Mangalore : The District Sveep Committee is mulling over setting up senior citizen-friendly polling booths to increase voting percentage in Dakshina Kannada. Speaking to reporters here, on Friday, Sveep Committee Chairman and Zilla Panchayat Chief Executive Officer Selvamani R said that around five to 10 such booths would be set up in the areas that […]