Mysuru: In view of the forthcoming elections to the Karnataka Legislative Assembly, the Election Commission of India and the District Election Officer (who is also the Deputy Commissioner) have issued directions to the Police Department to check all vehicles carrying cash of more than Rs.50,000. The checking drive will commence from Feb.20 at all the…
Bengaluru: The Joint Session of the State Legislature began here this morning. Addressing the joint session, Governor Vajubhai R. Vala highlighted the State Government’s achievements in the last five years. Stating that the government had taken all measures to ensure law and order, peace and harmony, the Governor said that the Government had taken steps…
Bengaluru: Setting the tempo for the Bharatiya Janata Party’s (BJP) poll campaign in Karnataka, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday remarked that the countdown had begun for the ruling Congress in the State that it was already at the exit gate. Addressing a huge rally at the Palace Grounds here to mark the culmination of…
The Union Finance Minister has just done the annual ritual of presenting the Government’s Budget proposed to generate funds and spending it during the coming twelve months of the fiscal, ostensibly to safeguard the nation’s economic health in particular and welfare of its populace in general. While the effort attracted adoration from some quarters, the…
Sir, It is unfortunate that our city lost three youngsters in a heart-rending road accident that occurred near Dattagalli on Outer Ring Road recently. Most probably it might have resulted due to over-speeding and the youth behind the steering might have forgot the saying that ‘speed thrills, but kills.’ The parents of two deceased youth…
City’s musicologist Prof. R. Satyanarayana, who was conferred Padma Shri in the Music category recently, was felicitated by city scholars recently. Dr. R.S. Nandakumar, Vidu. Rajalakshmi Sridhar, Vid. Manjunath, Vid. Manasa Nayana, Vid. Radesh, Vidu. Srilakshmi, Dr. Radhika Nandakumar, Dr. Sheela Sridhar, Dr. Tulasi Ramachandra, Dr. Jyothi Shankar, T.R. Harish, Prof. G.S. Ramanujam, Vid. K.P….
By Battakalanda Poovaiah Muthanna, Retd. Superintending Engineer Why Railway project is detrimental for Kodagu district and how it may prove fatal to the forests of Kodagu, its environment and its biodiversity; and its further effects on rainfall? The proposed Railway project in the thick forest areas of Kodagu district will have further disasters to the environment…
By Prof. B. Sheik Ali, Founder Vice-Chancellor of Mangalore and Goa Universities One of the suggestions I offered in the very first meeting of the University Centenary Committee in 2014 was the establishment of Gandhian Peace Chair in the University. Subsequently I prepared a Project Report in this behalf and submitted it to the University on…
Ameer-e-Shariat of Karnataka Hazrat Maulana Sagheer Ahmed Khan Sahab was felicitated at his birth place Kaulande, Nanjangud taluk, on the occasion of his visit to Kaulande recently. Seen in the picture are (from left) Taj Mohammed Khan (Hon. Secretary, RMET), Azam Ali Khan (ex-President – Kaulande Panchayat), Syed Rizwan (Vice-President – Jama Masjid) and Khaleel-Ur-Rahman…
Rt. Rev. Mohan Manoraj, Bishop and Chairman of Church of South India-Karnataka Southern Diocese (CSI-KSD), laid the foundation stone for the new OT Block and Cath Lab at Holdsworth Memorial Hospital (Mission Hospital) in city recently. Jenny Knowles, President, FOHA, UK and daughter of Dr. Frank I. Tovey, who had served in the hospital, Rev….
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