Mangaluru: Bajrang Dal has successfully organised various campaigns across the country for the protection of Sanatan Hindu Dharma. It has been at the forefront of all struggles related to the construction of the temple of Lord Ram in Ayodhya, said Bajrang Dal’s national coordinator, Kishan Prajapat.Speaking at the inauguration of the two-day Regional Coordinators Conference…
Mangaluru: A forest fire that broke out Saturday in the Kudremukh National Park (KNP) area was brought under control the same night following a swift response by forest department.The blaze was reported from a grassland patch in Belthangady, damaging around 6–7 acres. Officials said no wild animal was harmed.Deputy conservator of forests (DCF), Kudremukh wildlife…
Bengaluru: A 23-year-old engineering student died by suicide inside his hostel room in Tumakuru Monday night. The deceased is GE Venkatesh, a third-semester engineering student with SIT College and native of Davanagere.He lived in the BCM hostel at Upparahalli, where he was found hanging, police said. “We recovered a death note left behind by Venkatesh…
NEW DELHI: Just days before delivering his biggest political move yet, Raghav Chadha struck a cinematic note, invoking a Bollywood line from Dhurandhar: “ghayal hoon, isliye ghatak hoon” (I am wounded, therefore I am dangerous).In hindsight, the dialogue and its metaphor now read very differently. The “wounded” leader Raghav Chadha has not just walked away…
Belly dance: Sharlaine Sequeira, founder of ShimmyLaine, during a belly dance performance Mangaluru: Pole fitness, aerial arts, and belly dance are entering Mangaluru’s dance vocabulary as residents look beyond the familiar terrain of classical, Bollywood, and folk forms to move, express themselves, and stay fit.For Susan Misquith, a certified aerial artist and probably the first…
KALLAKURICHI: The quiet village of Koovagam in Kallakurichi district transformed into a vibrant epicentre of culture and devotion as the annual Arulmigu Koothandavar temple festival reached its highly anticipated climax on Tuesday. The 18-day festival, symbolising the 18-day Mahabharata war, draws participants not only from across India but also from several countries, including Singapore, Malaysia…
Karnataka’s latest push to curb underage drinking has become the latest talking point across Bengaluru’s pub circuit. Following the State’s Minister of Home Affairs, Priyank Kharge’s announcement that pubs, bars and breweries will have to strictly enforce a “No ID, no entry” policy, reactions have ranged from support for stricter checks to questions about whether…
Union finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Friday said externally aided projects (EAPs) should not be seen merely as financing tools but as instruments to help local products from the Northeast access global markets, strengthen livelihoods and turn the region’s geographical challenges into economic opportunities.Chairing a conference on “Leveraging externally aided projects in the northeastern states”,…
Mangaluru: Only 15,000 of the 1.5 lakh textbooks required for govt pre-university (PU) colleges in Dakshina Kannada have been supplied, over a month after classes began, officials said.Private PU colleges also said that despite sending indents, they have not received any supply.Bharath S, director of the department of pre-university education, Bengaluru, said dispatches were in…
Apple CEO Tim Cook will step down from his role after nearly 15 years, the company said. After the announcement, Apple shares declined less than 1% in late trading on April 20. Cook, 65, will hand over the role to John Ternus who has been leading the company’s hardware division. The decision comes as Apple…
