Udupi: Veteran Yakshagana artiste Tonse Jayanth Kumar passed away in Udupi early yesterday morning. He was 78. Kumar is survived by wife and three sons. Kumar had excelled as a Yakshagana Veshadhari and later as a Yakshagana guru and contributed immensely to the field. He was the guru of the Udupi Yaksha Shikshana Trust and…
Udupi: Former Udupi MLA U.R. Sabhapathy (71) passed away here yesterday following brief illness. He leaves behind his wife, two sons and a daughter. Sabhapathy had entered the Vidhana Soudha after getting elected from Udupi Constituency in 1994 on a Karnataka Congress Party (KCP) ticket, a party that was formed by former Chief Minister S….
Udupi: Karnataka Pradesh Congress Committee (KPCC) President D.K. Shivakumar’s temple run for Chief Minister’s gaddi, ahead of the Assembly polls on May 10, has continued with the latest religious ritual at Sri Kollur Mookambika Temple in Byndoor taluk, Udupi district being top of all. Shivakumar along with his wife Usha participated in Nava Chandika Yaga…
Udupi: A First In-formation Re-port (FIR) has been registered at Udupi Town Police Station against senior Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader and Rural Development and Panchayat Raj (RDPR) Minister K.S. Eshwarappa after Santosh K. Patil, a contractor, who had accused the Minister of demanding commission for road construction, was found dead at Shambhavi Hotel in…
Mysore/Mysuru: Udupi’s Sri Krishnapura Mutt Seer Vidyasagar Thirtha Swamiji was accorded a grand welcome under the joint aegis of Sri Krishna Trust and Sri Krishna Mitramandali, on his arrival at Saraswathipuram’s Srikrishnadhama here on Saturday. Speaking on the occasion, Vidyasagar Thirtha Swamiji said that the people of the country were battered by the effects of…
Udupi: Girish Bharadwaj, popularly known as the ‘Bridgeman’ of India, will be conferred Karanth Award by Dr. Shivaram Karanth Huttoora Prashasthi Prathistana (Kota). Bharadwaj, a native of Sullia in Dakshina Kannada, is credited with building nearly 140 low-cost suspension bridges across rivers and streams for rural connectivity. He will be honoured at a ceremony to…
Udupi: Minister for Social Welfare and Backward Classes Welfare Kota Srinivas Poojary on Monday said that the Government will take a final decision on releasing the caste-based socio-economic census report once the report is submitted by the State Backward Classes Commission. Speaking to media he said that earlier when in Opposition in the Legislative Council,…
Udupi: GAIL (India) Limited, in order to increase the availability of medical-grade oxygen, will build an oxygen generation plant at Taluk Government Hospital in Kundapura and nine other places across the country. According to Taluk Government Hospital Covid-19 Nodal Officer Dr. Nagesh Kundapura, the work on the construction of Pressure Swing Adsorption (PSA) medical oxygen…
Udupi: Sixteen-year-old Aniruddha Saralathaya from Nidle village in Dakshina Kannada district was anointed as the 31st Seer of Udupi Shiroor Mutt on the Moola Mutt premises in Shiroor on Friday night by its Dwandwa Mutt Seer Sri Vishwavallabha Tirtha Swami of Udupi Sode Vadiraj Mutt. Saralathaya was given the name of ‘Vedavardhana Tirtha’ before the…
Mysore/Mysuru: Dr. M.R. Udaykumar, Divisional Joint Director, Department of Health and Family Welfare, has said that the anaemic level is little high in Udupi and Kodagu districts in Mysuru Division whereas it was normal in other districts. He was speaking after inaugurating two-day Divisional-level ‘Anaemia Free India’ programme for officials of Child Development and Health…
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