The annual feast of St. Lawrence Shrine at Attur near Karkala will be celebrated from January 25 to 29.Addressing presspersons here on Friday, George D’Souza, Rector of St. Lawrence Shrine, said that the Celebrations would begin...

It is possible to graft an ordinary variety of brinjal with the famed “mattu gulla” variety and get brinjals that are like “mattu gulla”.Umesh Devadiga, gardener at Father Muller Medical College (FMMC), said he had grafted the “mattu gulla” onto a less superior variety brinjal plant.

A Russian couple has arrived at a village in Mangalore taluk with a desire to learn yoga and meditation. Andrey and Julia are now in Surabhivana, a home for indigenous breed

In a bizarre turn of events, 12 agitating farmers in Karnataka attempted suicide in a tahsildar’s office on Friday by consuming pesticide and reports said that the condition of six of them was serious.

The former Chief Minister of Kerala and veteran Congress leader K. Karunakaran died at a private hospital at Thiruvananthapuram on 23rd December, 2010,Thursday evening. 

The railways has approved construction of a bridge at Ekkur on the National Highway 17 in the city under phase III of the National Highways Development Project. The National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) would widen the highway to four lanes between Kundapur-Surathkal

Chief Minister Omar Abdullah on Wednesday sought to dispel the impression that New Delhi was running the government in Jammu and Kashmir.

Scores of commuters were left stranded on their way to work on Monday morning as MTC drivers went on a flash strike demanding

A noted Telugu Desam party leader from Krishna district, Chalasani Venkateswara Rao, 54, was found murdered in his flat at Madhuranagar-C

Seven elephants of a herd died after being hit by a goods train in the Banarhat area of Jalpaiguri district on Wednesday night.

The area under arecanut cultivation across the State has increased from 1.61 lakh hectares in 2005-06 to 1.84 lakh hectares in 2008-09, according to Directorate of Economics and Statistics, Bangalore. The statistics secured by the Central Arecanut and Cocoa Marketing and Processing Cooperative

With a thick security blanket in place to enforce curfew, a 39-member all-party delegation on Monday began the task of assessing the situation in Kashmir

Sports clubs in the Mahakalipadpu area here have allegedly prevented a higher primary school from constructing a classroom on its own premises.

Leander Paes and Mahesh Bhupathi kept India alive in its Davis World Group play-off with a 6-4, 7-6(5), 6-1 win over Brazil’s Marcelo Melo and Bruno Soares  at the SDAT Tennis Stadium on Saturday.

A large number of Democratic Youth Federation of India (DYFI) activists from Kasaragod district in Kerala and Dakshina Kannada laid siege to the Air India corporate office

A few councillors of the Mangalore City Corporation on Monday expressed concern over some fruits, allegedly ripened with chemicals, being sold at the central market here. Raising the subject during the Question Hour at the monthly meeting of the council, former Mayor M. Shankar

China’s Ministry of Defense said on Saturday defence exchanges between China and India had not been suspended in the wake of the visa row

As many as 18,489 trees will be cut for widening two stretches of 90 km of National Highway 17 between Kundapur and Surathkal and between Nanthoor Circle in Mangalore City and Talapady. The State Department of Forests has given permission to the National Highways

Indeed, Mr. Anand, who is scheduled to play simultaneous chess with 40 mathematicians on Tuesday, arrived in the city on Sunday itself

Members of the Dakshina Kannada District Maxicab and Car Owners and Drivers’ Association blocked National Highway 48 near B.C. Road here for some time on Tuesday urging the Government to stop collecting toll from vehicles for using the bridge across the Netravati.

A team from the Karnataka police backed by a strong posse of the Kerala police entered the Anwarssery camp

“In the case of a mass disaster, we are not supposed to hand over bodies until all the bodies have been identified,” Assistant Commissioner Prabhulinga Kavalikatti said here on Monday. He was speaking at a function organised by Manipal University to felicitate the medical team

It was a hectic day for All India Congress Committee general secretary Rahul Gandhi as he began the first of his two-day trip across the State on a “youth-connect” mission. Starting with Mysore, he went on to Shimoga and then to Dharwad, meeting scores of enthusiastic youngsters in each place

Addressing journalists on Sunday, Mr. Jadhav picked one survivor, Joel Pratap D’Souza, for special mention. Mr. D’Souza, who escaped from the wreck and arrived at the airport in an autorickshaw, provided the ground staff involved in the rescue operations with vital information,