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…
Udupi Mutt Seer accorded warm welcome in city
November 30, 2021Mysore/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…
Karanth Award to be presented to ‘Bridgeman’ Girish Bharadwaj
October 4, 2021Udupi: 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…
Govt. yet to receive caste census report: Minister
August 24, 2021Udupi: 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,…
After Mysuru and Chamarajanagar… GAIL India to set up Oxygen Plant in Kundapura
May 16, 2021Udupi: 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…
Sri Vedavardhana Tirtha is 31st Seer of Udupi Shiroor Mutt
May 16, 2021Udupi: 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…
Women of Udupi and Kodagu prone to anaemia
January 7, 2021Mysore/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…
Eminent Sanskrit scholar Dr. Bannanje Govindacharya passes away
December 14, 2020Udupi: Renowned Sanskrit scholar and Padma Shree awardee Vidyavachaspati Dr. Bannanje Govindacharya died at his residence at Ambalpady in Udupi yesterday at the age of 85 due to age-related illness. His second son Vijaya Bhushan Acharya had pre-deceased him 12 days ago. He leaves behind four daughters, one son and a host of relatives and…
Upset city businessman commits suicide in Udupi district
October 31, 2020Mysore/Mysuru: Upset over non-repayment of loan by debtors, a businessman from Mysuru has committed suicide by jumping into Souparnika River in Udupi district on Thursday. According to Police, the deceased has been identified as Madhu (40), a resident of Vani Vilasa Mohalla, who was running a petrol bunk in Nagamangala town in Mandya district on…
Puttige Seer recovers from COVID-19
August 2, 2020Udupi: Sri Sugunendra Theertha Swamiji, seer of Puttige Math, who was hospitalised for COVID-19 treatment last week has been discharged after recovery. He was admitted to hospital on July 21 after returning from a tour of Bengaluru. He was admitted to Manipal Hospital. Swamiji has also started to be involved in the daily poojas and…
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