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.
Five youths were arrested after being forced to alight from a Patna-Kolkata-Bangalore Indigo flight at the N S C B International airport here tonight on charge of misbehaving with an air hostess.
Villagers of Kadekar in Udupi taluk beat up Keshava Madivala (40) on Monday evening for raping his own daughter.
A senior Arunachal Pradesh minister does not find anything "wrong" with a police officer having a drink while on duty.
Security staff comprising of 13 women staged protest on Sunday, outside District Wenlock hospital, led by DYFI against the decision of the hospital management to sack the security staff from duty.
Mangalore will soon have the night safari that was planned on the Singapore model as the Central Zoo Authority has given its final clearance to the project .
In a clear case of superstition, a man has killed his two children on the words of a soothsayer, at Shanubhoganahalli village in Kolar taluk.
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