B V Seetharam, Director of Chitra Publications, that brings out the newspaper ‘Karavali Ale’, has appealed to Seemanth Kumar Singh, City Police Commissioner, to take immediate action against those behind the recent attacks on the paper’s vendors in various parts of the city.
Is the mid-day meal served to students in government schools of the district,
proving too hot for students ? Such a question has now definitely arisen. Just recently
several students of the Valalu school near Bajattur were taken ill after they consumed
the Bisiyoota in the school. In another incident, as many as 36 students of the Kalmadka
Government Higher Primary School near Sullia were taken ill on Wednesday after they
consumed the mid-day meal at the school.
Reports of late are suggestive of the fact that the chances of senior
Congress leader and former union minister Janardhan Poojari being elected as the KPCC
President were presently high. Though several names are doing the rounds, the high
command was in all likely to choose Poojari for the post, sources revealed.
Sudarshan Jain, President of the Bantwal Taluk Land Development Bank
has alleged that some organizations including the Kisan Sene, by coming in the way of
recovery of loans advanced to farmers by the Land Development Banks, were trying to
mislead the farmers.
It has come to light of late that a priest had himself stolen the idol of
a temple where he was serving, to pay off his debts. This interesting fact came to light
following the arrest of two persons on the charges of trying to sell the idol of Lakshmi
Narasimha at Haleyangady near Mulki recently.
A recent survey undertaken by the Zilla Panchayat has revealed a
stunning fact that as many as 21,000 houses out of the 2.42 lakh families in rural areas of
DK district which were included in the survey, did not have lavatories. This accounted to
8.5 per cent of the total number of rural families.
In yet another clash in the city sub-jail in the recent times, an under
trial broke his tooth after he was given a punch on his face but another under trial on
September 29, Wednesday. The injured under trial has been identified as Mohammad
Latif (25), a man from north India. He had been arrested on charges of vehicle lifting in
Kadaba of Puttur taluk.
Kalmadi is a small village, four km away from the temple town of Udupi, and
eight km away from Manipal, the hub of education.
The family of Roshan Deepak D’Cunha, a student of Aloysius College in the city, who reportedly died of drowning, has suspected foul-play and has demanded a thorough probe into the case.
The district administration is thinking in terms of equipping as many as 10 gram panchayat offices with facilities that will facilitate online land conversion. According to Deputy Commissioner V Ponnuraj this facility would be available within the next two weeks.