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Mangalore University is all set to make its campus fully WiFi enabled from March 28. At present, it is making available internet services through two independent Internet service providers - one is through National Knowledge Network (NKN) which is high speed connection of up to 1Gbps
For the first time in the city’s history, the head of the Catholic Church led a morcha through the streets to express anger with the establishment. Oswald Cardinal Gracias was at the head of a 1,000-strong assembly that walked along Colaba Causeway on Saturday evening...
Torrential rains continued to pour in bad news from north India on Tuesday, with flash floods, cloudbursts and landslips claiming 69 more lives and taking
Soon after announcing that the JD(U) was leaving the NDA, Bihar CM Nitish Kumarspoke exclusively to Diwakar. In a hard-hitting interview, Kumar said the BJP would be dominated by one person and everybody else had been tamed into submission. Excerpts:
Train passengers will be able to use their mobile phones to book tickets through a simple text-messaging-based facility or a menu-based dialling service from July 1.The two non-internet systems developed by the Indian Railway Catering and Tourism Corporation(IRCTC) can be used with
A day after CM Nitish Kumar said the JD-U will soon decide on the issue of continuing its alliance with the BJP, most JD-U leaders were unanimous on Tuesday that time has come to bid adieu to the BJP following the anointment ofGujarat CM NarendraModi as the saffron
Former Union minister VC Shukla, who was injured in the Maoist attack in Chhattisgarh on May 25, has passed away.Shukla, who had received three gunshots and was
Ponty Chadha’s brother was killed and a security guard was injured in a shooting
Union science and technology minister Vilasrao Deshmukh was admitted to hospital in Chennai on Monday in a critical condition.
Shooter Gagan Narang ended India’s medal drought at the London Olympics after clinching bronze medal in the 10 metre air rifle event with an over all score of 701.1.Earlier in the day, Beijing Olympics gold medallist
Gunmen launched multiple attacks in the Afghan capital, Kabul, on Sunday, with blasts and gunfire erupting in the heavily guarded, central diplomatic area and at theAfghan parliament in the west, witnesses and officials said. Gunfire appeared to be coming from various directions in the
A day after polling, both Congress and BJP have started number crunching. While BJP expects to win the seat by a lead
Minutes after being relegated to the status of caretaker chief minister of Karnataka, B S Yeddyurappa (BSY) vented his anger at senior central BJP leader M Venkaiah Naidu, who was trying to pacify him. BSY flew into a rage and grabbed Naidu’s laptop and smashed it on the floor
In return for relinquishing the Karnataka chief ministership, BS Yeddyurappa is bargaining with his party, the BJP. He has asked the party to make him the state president of the BJP and Shohba Karandlaje as his successor. BJP leaders Arun Jaitley and Rajnath Singh are in Bangalore to oversee
A 35-year-old man, doubting his wife`s fidelity, beheaded her and his 18-month-old daughter at their Nalasopara (E) residence on Thursday, July 28, 2011. He stayed put with the bodies till the police arrived.The accused, Chandrakant Ahire, was living in Bilalpada with his wife Sanchita (25)
Bangaloreans have to live with a new threat. If you go by The Energy and Resources Institute’s (TERI) recent study on increasing ozone pollution across the country, the city is likely to be one of the worst affected. Pollutants like nitrogen oxide gases (NOx)
One of the early spells of heavy pre-monsoon showers brought the city to a grinding halt on Friday, June 4,2011 evening, throwing the rail and road transport systems out of gear, and even disrupting air traffic. As the downpour, coupled with high tide, rose the level of water,
Karnataka Tulu Sahitya Academy is all set to introduce Tulu as an optional language for eighth standard on trial basis from the next academic year. The Academy, which has already introduced Tulu for sixth and seventh standard has plans to print about 8,000 text books, titled Tulu Esal 3,
Trains will be cancelled and diverted due to re-girdering of a major bridge near Kottayam and to attend maintenance works in other minor bridges in the Kottayam Ernakulam section. The list of trains which will be diverted from October 1 to 13 are
In the latest wave of terrorist attacks, at least 20 people were killed and 170 injured when three suicide bombs ripped through a Shia procession
Infosys Technologies Ltd gave cheques worth Rs 10 lakh to 50 select meritorious students of Alva’s PU College who hail from flood-affected families
A move by Karnataka Fisheries Development Corporation (KFDC) to start exclusive buses for fisherwomen of Mangalore and Malpe has got the nod from its board. These buses will shortly operate from Mangalore old port and Malpe harbour and help fisherwomen come to the respective ports, collect the fish
Come September 1, international passengers from Bajpe airport will have to shell out an additional Rs 825 as user development fee (UDF). The UDF for domestic passengers will be Rs 150. The UDF was approved by the ministry of civil aviation on May 15 this year and will be in force for 10
Fishermen have decided to court arrest by berthing their boats inside the New Mangalore Port, if the port authorities refuse permission for temporary halts during inclement weather