Gopala Krishna Baliga, engineer-turned-businessman, and his wife Radhika,63, from Mangaluru, completed a 12-day road trip across Iceland, driving 2,450 km in June Mangaluru: His first drive outside India was anything but a leisurely spin. At 67, Gopala Krishna Baliga found himself behind the wheel of a left-hand-drive camper van, negotiating Iceland’s windswept roads, narrow bridges…
Ben Stokes has responded to criticism from England great Ian Botham with a tongue-in-cheek social media post after announcing his retirement from international cricket.Stokes, who retired from international cricket during the Trent Bridge Test against New Zealand last month, was the subject of a light-hearted remark from Botham on the Test Match Special podcast. Reflecting…
KPCC Campaign Committee president Vinay Kumar Sorake(centre) addresses the media in Mangaluru on Wednesday Mangaluru: The Congress on Wednesday demanded dissolution of the existing Ram Mandir Trust, its reconstitution with Shankaracharyas and devotees as members, and a Supreme Court judge-monitored CBI probe into alleged theft and financial irregularities linked to the Ram Mandir.Addressing reporters, KPCC…
Boy’s Drowning Karnataka high court Bengaluru: The Karnataka high court has refused to accept a Rs 2 lakh compensation offered by three accused persons over the drowning of a toddler in a water tank.In a tragic incident this May, the two-and-a-half-year-old boy entered an under-construction building – the premises of the petitioners – in Rajarajeshwari…
Lohith K, a BLO at Inekidu village and primary school teacher at the Govt School in Bilinelebailu in Kadaba taluk, clings to a makeshift ropeway to cross a stream and reach a voter’s doorstep as part of the ongoing SIR Mangaluru: Election duty took an adventurous turn in Dakshina Kannada when a booth-level officer (BLO) hopped…
Mangaluru: A crab-catching trick from the village streams of yesteryear has resurfaced in a new avatar. Two farmers from Kokkada in Dakshina Kannada have redesigned the traditional bamboo crab trap, replacing bamboo with plastic to create a reusable model that can last for years.Dinesh Naik,45, a farmer, and Hemanth K,21, have recreated the traditional ‘koori’,…
Mangaluru: The International Society for Krishna Consciousness (Iskcon) Kulai, Mangaluru, will celebrate its Annual Sri Jagannath Rath Yatra on Thursday.The sacred chariot procession is expected to attract thousands of devotees from Mangaluru, Udupi, and neighboring districts, and the procession will commence at 4 pm from Surathkal Junction, and proceed toward the Iskcon, Kulai temple. A…
Bengaluru: What is in vogue with the engineering aspirants of the state this year? While computer science and allied programmes continue to be the favourite, there is a drastic rise in cutoffs in the other courses like electronics and civil engineering.The provisional cutoff ranks of the first round of counselling in the Common Entrance Test…
The green campaign, Tulasi Yamunodyana, launched at Bharath Group of Institutions, managed by Ullal Mogaveera Sangha in Ullal on Wednesday in memory of Padma Shri awardee Tulasi Gowda and environmentalist Dinesh Holla’s mother, Yamuna, to mark Holla’s 60th birthday. Mangaluru: Planting a sapling takes minutes, but keeping it alive takes years. Taking this challenge head-on,…
India’s Hardik Pandya, right, celebrates with teammate Ishan Kishan (AP Photo) The International Cricket Council’s (ICC) revamped format for the 2027 ODI World Cup has not only increased the possibility of India and Pakistan facing each other three times during the tournament, but it has also reignited criticism over how inclusive cricket’s biggest event really…
