Udupi: Udupi Town police arrested two men for allegedly producing a fake Aadhaar card before a court to impersonate another person and stand as a surety for an accused seeking bail.The case came to light after Abbas, administrative officer of the Udupi district and sessions court, filed a complaint on Aug 13. According to the…
WALK-O-METER RATING: 1/5 Roadside parking, narrow carriageways and heavy pedestrian movement create bottlenecks on GHS Road, a key link between Hampankatta and the Central Market area Mangaluru: A busy stretch of Ganapathi High School (GHS) Road between Hampankatta and Shri Mahalakshmi Ganapathi Mandir continues to expose the gap between the city’s commercial growth and its…
Kishore Pai painting a sindhoor Ganesha at his workshop at Pandeshwar in Mangaluru Mangaluru: At first glance, it may seem like just another shade of red. But in a small workshop in Pandeshwar, 48-year-old artisan Kishore Pai patiently applies what he describes as a distinctly different colour: sindhoor.The orange-red hue is currently taking shape on…
Participants in the ‘Prakriti Patha’ study tour, organised by Thotagars Green Group FPO of Thotagars’ Rural Co-operative Agricultural Multipurpose Society Ltd. The tour brought together 28 participants, most of them women interested in cultivating dahlias, locally known as dere hoo Mangaluru: What began as a hobby in the home gardens of Malnad is now evolving…
Mangaluru: Akhila Bharata Tulu Okkoota (All India Tulu Federation) has urged the Karnataka government to declare Tulu an official language of the state.Addressing reporters, Okkoota president AC Bhandary said Tulu, one of the oldest Dravidian languages, is the mother tongue of over 1.8 million people and the cultural language of Tulunadu. Despite its rich literary…
People waiting their turn for the documentation process for notices of SIR, in one of the schools in Mangaluru. Mangaluru: Server glitches and poor internet connectivity are slowing down the special intensive revision (SIR) of electoral rolls in Dakshina Kannada, making it difficult for booth-level officers (BLOs) and assistant electoral registration officers (AEROs) to upload…
Mangaluru: The Mangaluru city police conducted a surprise raid at the district prison, and seized 10 mobile phones allegedly concealed by nine undertrials inside the jail. Police commissioner Sudheer Kumar Reddy CH stated that acting on credible information that prisoners were using mobile phones inside the prison, Barke police registered a case under Section 323…
Accused picked up a fire extinguisher kept inside the ATM premises and struck the display twice, causing it to break and resulting in damage to bank property Udupi: A man allegedly damaged an ATM at the Canara Bank Hoode branch after his transaction was declined due to the use of an unauthorised card on Aug…
Mangaluru: At 72, Gladys Pais is still chasing medals and finding ways to keep herself motivated — even without a stadium or a regular coach. For the retired teacher-turned-athlete from Bantwal, the hunger for sport has only grown stronger with age.Her latest outing at the World Masters Athletics Championships in Daegu, South Korea, fetched India…
Sulaiman,79, of Basrur in Udupi district, who has been making petlas for around 43 years Mangaluru: The sharp ‘tap’ sound of the petla is making a comeback as social media brings the bamboo pop gun back into the spotlight amid Sri Krishna Janmashtami and Vitla Pindi celebrations.Historian Tukaram Poojary said the petla was essentially a…
