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…
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…
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…
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,…
Mangaluru: Citing a fatal landslide in Uttara Kannada in 2024 which claimed several lives, the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) state unit has demanded a stringent law to regulate what it termed as “uncontrolled and unscientific hill cutting” across Karnataka.Addressing reporters on Wednesday, AAP state vice-president Vivekananda Salins said the landslide was triggered by unscientific excavation…
During the investigation, the SIT carried out searches by digging at nearly 17 locations Mangaluru: The Special Investigation Team (SIT) probing the alleged Dharmasthala mass burial case submitted a 7,005-page final report before the court of the additional civil judge and JMFC, Belthangady, on Wednesday. The report was submitted by SP CA Simon before the…
The Karnataka government, through an order dated July 19 last year, transferred the investigation into the Dharmasthala burial allegations to the SIT. MANGALURU: The Special Investigation Team (SIT) probing the alleged Dharmasthala mass burial case on Wednesday submitted a 7,005-page final report before the court of the Additional Civil Judge and JMFC in Belthangady.The report…
Udupi: A man from Ajekar allegedly lost Rs 6.8 lakh to cyberfraudsters after his son downloaded a mParivahan APK file sent through WhatsApp along with a purported traffic violation notice.According to the complaint, he received a WhatsApp message on July 5 from an account named ‘Parivahan’. The message contained a ‘Traffic Violation Notice’ and an…
