According to reliable sources, out of 191 trips made by Home Minister V S Acharya outside the state capital during the past 16 months since the BJP came to power in the state, he has made 159 trips to his home districts – Mangalore, Udupi.
The Mangalore Rural (Kankanady ) Sub-Inspector Prakash has been accused of committing atrocities on three youths after detaining them illegally in the station.
The barge mounted power project that had commenced operations at the Tannirbavi here on behalf of the GMR Energy Limited eight years ago, is all likely o be shifted to Kakinada in Andhra Pradesh next year.
A tragic incident wherein a young couple ended their life by consuming poison, has been reported from Gundmi village. The deceased have been identified as Chandra and Mallika. It is suspected that the couple chose the extreme step over the agony of being issueless.
An incident wherein some anti-social elements made a futile bid to create communal tension taking undue advantage of a road accident, has been reported from near KC Road in Bantwal police station limits on Sunday night.
The challenge posed by Opposition Congress leader in the MCC Harinath to Mayor Shanker Bhat to make public the names of the Congress corporators in Dharmaraj’s pay-roll, in retaliation to the mayor’s earlier remark that ‘`Most of the Congress corporators’ are in Dharmaraj’s pay-roll,†has naturally given rise to a hot topic of debate. All this stemmed from a recent allegation levelled against the Mayor by Congress leaders
It has been alleged that Praveen alias Baba, a VHP leader, has abused and threatened Monappa Gowda a local flower merchant near Mahalingeshwara temple.
A woman who was standing on the roadside near Maddadka was knocked down by a KSRTC bus bound for Belthangady from Mangalore on Sunday.
It has now come to light that the officials concerned who are required to visit the site to inspect the civil works connected with new electric lines have been issuing clearance straight from their offices without complying with any of these requirements.
The solid waste treatment plant set up a year ago in Pachchanady with a view to provide a garbage disposal system on the outskirts of Mangalore city has so far failed in its purpose.