MANGALORE: Government school building construction works in the district during the year 2009-2010 have suffered a setback following the failure in effective utilization of the funds sanctioned by the union government for the purpose last year under the Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan scheme.
MANGALORE : With foundation for the Rs 1000 crore Indian Strategic Petroleum Reserves Ltd ‘s crude oil storage project laid recently at Kalavarpadavu, questions are being raised with regard to the safety of this gigantic project. The 1.5 MMT capacity project will be implemented in an 83 acre area in Kalavar Padavu in Bala gram panchayat limits. The crude oil reserves would be stored in underground rock caverns and the project is likely to be completed in the year 2012.
MANGALORE: We often get to read reports of young women being cheated or jilted by their lovers complaining to the police. But here is a case wherein a young man has lodged a police complaint stating that a young woman who had promised to marry him has now ditched him after swindling him of lakhs of rupees.
MANGALORE: Aravind Srivastava, Managing Director of the KUIDFC, has informed that the basic infrastructural developmental projects initiated by the KUIDFC under KUDCEMP (Karnataka Urban Development and Coastal Environment Management Plan) in ten towns of the coastal Karnataka would be completed by March 2010.
MANGALORE: Though the newly elected Dakshina Kannada MP Nalin Kumar Kateel recently aroused much hopes saying he would give top priority towards seeing to it that a day train between Mangalore and Bangalore was introduced, official sources reveal that there is no possibility of this project becoming a reality at least in the near future.
MANGALORE : In what could be termed as a surprise move, various pro-Hindu organizations staged a huge protest in front of the deputy commissioner’s office in the city recently to express their support to the ongoing movement launched by thousands of farmers against the proposed Special Economic Zone.
BANGALORE : The State Human Right Commission Chairman Justice SR Nayak has directed the chief secretary of the state government to order for a probe by an officer of the IGP rank into the recent incident at Dharmasthala wherein CRPF personnel of Andhra Pradesh fired at locals in Dharmasthala killing one person.
MANGALORE : In an interesting case, a rifle that was stolen from the Kankanady police station 17 years ago has been traced in a house at Padil by the DCIB police.
MANGALORE : The widening and concretization of several roads in the city, would surely ease traffic congestion on some of the busy roads. But the road dividers put up at several of the .roads, are now learnt to be causing problems, particularly to the pedestrians to cross the roads.
MANGALORE: Notorious criminal Pandu alias Panduranga Pai was recently hacked to death in an isolated area near the Kankanady railway station, thereby putting a bloody end to the bloody chapter of a dreaded criminal who was wanted by the police in several cases.