Bangalore, Feb 6: All websites, including social media sites, would have to operate within the India laws and be responsible for hosting any content, Minister of State for Communications and IT Sachin Pilot said Monday.   “Be it a social media website or any other site on internet, they all have to operate within the [...]

Bangalore: The Lokayukta Court Monday ordered a probe by the Lokayukta Superintendent of Police into the private complaint against a BJP MLA for allegedly possessing assets disproportionate to his known sources of income. Judge N K Sudhindra Rao directed the SP Lokayukta to submit his report by March 12. B Eranna, a Pre-University lecturer in [...]

Mangalore: the all India Billavas Union, Kudroli launches its centenary year celebrations on February.12 at 10 AM in local Town Hall premises. CM DV Sadananda Gowda is expected to inaugurate the day-long programme. Ministers Krishna Palemar and Dr. V.S. Acharya, local MP Nalin K. Kateel, city MLA N. Yogish Bhat, MP (Rs) Oscar Fernandes, eminent [...]

Mangalore: Renowned religious writer and Sanskrit scholar of Udupi, Bannanje Govindacharya on Monday conferred the B.Ramacharya Memorial award on five senior journalists at a ceremony held in Lions Bhavan in Brahmagiri, organised by KSC Hegde Green Park memorial centre. The awards were: Two former Kannada Prabha reporters, Damodar Uchil and chidambar Baikampady, Udayavani Mangalore Bureau [...]

Udupi: the immediate past Paryaya Swami of Sirur Mutt, Sri Laxmivara Tirtha went to St. Mary’s isles on Monday where a huge Madhwacharya state was to be installed, but was surprised that a 3-day Rave party of hundreds of foreign and Indian revelers paying Rs. 5,000 each, had spoiled the place with their night-long erotic [...]

Mangalore: Mangalore may be a city of educated persons, but crimes abound here and all over DK district every week. The police have full time work. Four men of one faith and women of another religious belief were arrested from a hotel located opposite Mangalore Nursing Home (Maya?), near Bendoorwell on Monday Feb 6, for [...]

Mangalore: Recalling Ambedkar’s fight for liberation of women in society from being treated only sex objects and working maids at home, Dr. Dharma who is the director of Gandhi Study Centre in Mangalore University released a book, titled in Kannada as the Need for Women’s Emancipation and challenges’, written by Dr. Sulochana Narayan, his disciple [...]

Mangalore : The post centenary silver jubilee celebrations of the Mangalore Diocese will be held on Feb 11 on the grounds of Rosario Cathedral and on Feb 12 on Nehru Maidan, said Rev. Aloysius Paul D’Souza, the bishop of Mangalore Diocese at a press meet held at the Bishop’s House on Feb 6 Monday. Revealing [...]

Mangalore : The University College, Mangalore and Students Union 2011-12 celebrated the ‘Vivekananda Jayanti’ as a part of 150th birth anniversary of Swami Vivekananda at Ravindra Kala Bhavan on Feb 6, Monday. Speaking after inaugurating the event, resource person Chakravarti Soolibele said that the team had organized a torch light rally in most of the [...]

Mangalore : Rahim Uchil takes charge as the new president of the Karnataka Beary Sahithya Academy in the academy office located at Presidium Complex, Attavar on Feb 6 Monday.  Rahim Uchil was the general secretary of the BJP DK District Yuva Morcha unit, the convener of the Veerarani Abbakka Utsava, member of the district Wakf [...]