As many as 41 students and 8 faculty members of Crossland College, Brahmavar, handed over their willingness letter to donate their eyes at a function held at the College recently organised by the Youth Red Cross unit of the college.
For SSLC examinees who always find themselves short on time during those nervous moments when the invigilator wants the answer scripts on his table, here is some good news.
A superstitious man, Wang Chaoxu, of Qixian village, Yunnan, allegedly murdered Li Xuetang, whose dead body has been found buried in a grain field in a neighboring hamlet.
Chief Minister B.S. Yedyurappa has said that revenue land will soon be identified for ‘gomala’ or cattle grazing fields across the State.
Many flyovers, subways for pedestrians, truck and bus lay-bys, bus shelters and rest areas have been proposed under the Rs. 674-crore project to widen the 90-km two-lane Kundapur-Talapady section of National Highway 17 to four lanes.
In a suspected case of child sacrifice, five children of a family were killed in a village in Hingoli district. The police have arrested four persons, including three women in this connection. The boys, aged between 4 and 12 years, belong to a family in Digras village in Maharashtra and were killed between December 2009 and March 2010, police said.
A journey on the proposed four-lane National Highway between Mangalore and Udupi (about 60 km), if it gets ready by 2012, will cost Rs. 45 one way, by way of toll.
The Karnataka Konkani Sahitya Academy has chosen three persons for its honorary award for 2009. In addition, it has chosen two persons for its annual book award for 2009.
The 18 contract security guards who were recently dismissed from Government Wenlock Hospital have threatened to go on a hunger strike even as they staged a dharna for the past four days under the banner of the Democratic Youth Federation of India.
The Governor of Maharashtra K. Sankaranarayanan will present the Life Time Achievement Awards to renowned cartoonist R. K. Laxman and veteran journalist and former Chairman of Prasar Bharati M. V. Kamath at the Presidential Ball Room, Hotel President, Cuffe Parade, Mumbai at 7.30 p.m. on Friday, 19 March 2010.
Unfazed by criticism from various quarters over being garlanded with currency notes allegedly worth crores of rupees during a rally of party workers here on Monday, Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) supremo Mayawati on Wednesday accepted another garland of currency notes worth Rs 18 lakh.
The District Crime Intelligence Bureau (DCIB) has arrested 11 persons who are allegedly aides of underworld don Chhota Shakeel.
In response to a report that appeared in these columns on Tuesday, Swebert D’Silva, Principal, St. Aloysius College, Mangalore, and A.M. Narahari, Registrar of the college, have said that Mangalore University has raised two issues: the college is not following the regulations relating to autonomy and the registration fee has not been paid to the university.
If everything goes according to the Udupi City Municipal Council’s (CMC) plans, the Beedinagudde garbage dumping yard will be converted into a playground, a small park and a walking track within a year.
The Government is working on to replace the word "rape" from Indian Penal Code with "sexual assault" to broaden the ambit of crimes covered under the sections and make the provisions gender-neutral.
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