Udupi: Kasturba Medical College (KMC), Manipal, and the Department of Paediatric Oncology, Kasturba Medical College and Kasturba Hospital, Manipal, inaugurated the Division of Paediatric Bone Marrow Transplantation & Cellular Therapy, Hematology and Immunology (BHIM) and observed the World Sickle Cell Awareness Day. The inauguration ceremony was held at the Smt Sharada Madhav Pai Memorial OPD…
Mangaluru: A 17-year-old girl allegedly committed suicide and left a death note in Surathkal police station limits on Tuesday.City police commissioner Sudheer Kumar Reddy said that she was found dead around 4 pm. She left a suicide note for her parents. The deceased’s parents filed a complaint at 11pm.Suratkal police registered a case under the…
Udupi: A rowdy element under Udupi City police station limits was arrested under the Goonda Act on Wednesday.The arrested suspect is Charan Raj,29, a resident of Kumdel, Pudu village, Bantwal taluk, Dakshina Kannada. Following a report submitted by the superintendent of police of Udupi, the district magistrate and deputy commissioner issued the order for his…
Mangaluru: A 54-year-old man from Ullal has allegedly been cheated of Rs 5.6 lakh in an online fraud, after attempting to purchase a motorcycle advertised on an online marketplace platform.According to the complaint registered at the Ullal police station, the complainant and his son came across an advertisement on the platform for the sale of…
Mangaluru: Contrary to initial concerns over a decline in passenger traffic after Kerala launched the Priyadarshini scheme on June 15, Karnataka RTC data on the Mangaluru-Kasaragod route indicates an increase in revenue.Data from June 1 to 14, and after June 15 shows that earnings per kilometre stayed almost the same. Before the scheme, buses earned…
The state govt has decided to assign PU college lecturers to high school classes, classes 9 and 10. Mangaluru: The Karnataka State Pre-university College Principals’ Association and the Karnataka State Pre-university College Lecturers’ Association, Dakshina Kannada District Unit, representing the lecturers of govt and aided pre-university colleges, have strongly condemned the govt’s decision to assign…
Udupi: Police have arrested a man who had been absconding for nearly 36 years after securing bail in a case registered at the Udupi Town police station.The accused, Noorulla,66, a resident of Nittur in Hirekerur taluk of Haveri district, was booked under Sections 86 and 87 of the Karnataka Forest Act on June 21, 1990.The…
Mangaluru: Deputy commissioner Darshan HV has directed officials to treat cases of missing children with utmost seriousness and ensure prompt action without delay. Chairing the District Child Welfare and Protection Committee meeting held at the DC’s office on Monday, he said in the past one year, 86 cases of missing children have been registered in…
Mangaluru: Doctors at KMC Hospital, Attavar, have successfully performed a rare thoracoscopic repair of a lung herniation, a significant milestone in minimally invasive thoracic surgery. The procedure was completed without a single large incision.The male patient in his fifties had been noticing an unusual swelling on his chest wall that appeared prominently whenever he coughed….
Deepak Hedge with Giridhar Kamath, partner, Ganesh and Sudhir Chartered Accountants Mangaluru: Determination and consistent hard work have helped Deepak Hegde,23, from Bajire near Venoor secure the 28th all-India rank (AIR) in the recently announced chartered accountancy (CA) examinations, scoring 425 out of 600.Coming from a modest background, Deepak studied at the Govt Primary School,…
