Mangalore: A reporter with Vijaya Karnataka, P.B Hariprasad Rai, is now elected as president of DK Working Journalists Union in a Sunday contest held at Press Club in city. Rai defeated B.N Pushparaj of Vartha Bharathi another Kannada daily. Srinivas Nayak Indaje of Udaya TV was elected as General Secretary. Outgoing President Harsha (Indian Express) [...]

Bangalore: The village girl who ran hurdle and relay races in Delhi (CWG) and Guang-Zhou in China (Asian Games) to win gold medals and baffle the city-bred athletes, has been selected as the “person of the year 2010” by the Bangalore Press Club for their annual award. She was recently in Mumbai, to be honoured [...]

Mangalore : Dakshina Kannada District Working Journalist Union in collaboration with Mangalore Press club has jointly organized a farewell function for Sibanti Padmanabha, reporter of Deccan Herald news paper at Press Club on August 2, Monday. Sibanti Padmanabha, who had earlier worked in Vijayatimes news paper after his post graduation in Master of communication and [...]

Mangalore, July 31: Around 70 schools of Gram Panchayath have implemented the Stand alone water purification system under Drinking water scheme in DK for the year 2009-2010 at the cost of Rs 10.80 lakhs, said Shivaskankar, Chief Executive Officer of Zilla Panchayath. Addressing the media persons at the programme ‘Meet the Press’ held at Press [...]

ಮಂಗಳೂರು : 14ನೇ ಏಷಿಯನ್ ಸ್ಪೀಡ್ ಸ್ಕೇಟಿಂಗ್ ಸ್ಪರ್ಧೆಯಲ್ಲಿ ಕಂಚಿನ ಪದಕ ಗೆದ್ದ ಶರಣ್ಯ ಮಹೇಶ್ ಕುರಿತು ಇಂದು ಬೆಳಗ್ಗೆ ಪತ್ರಿಕಾಭವನದಲ್ಲಿ ಪತ್ರಿಕಾಗೋಷ್ಠಿಯನ್ನು ಏರ್ಪಡಿಸಲಾಗಿತ್ತು. ಪತ್ರಿಕಾಗೋಷ್ಠಿಯನ್ನುದ್ದೇಶಿಸಿ ಮಾತನಾಡಿದ ಡಾ||ಜೆಸ್ಸಿ ಮರಿಯಾ ಡಿ ಸೋಜಾ, ಮಂಗಳೂರು ರೋಲರ್ ಸ್ಕೇಟಿಂಗ್ ಕ್ಲಬ್ ಸದಸ್ಯೆಯಾದ ಶರಣ್ಯ ಮಹೇಶ್ ಜುಲೈ 19 ರಿಂದ 25 ರವರೆಗೆ ಚೈನೀಸ್ ತೈಪೇ ಯಲ್ಲಿ ನಡೆದ 14ನೇ ಏಷಿಯನ್ ರೋಲರ್ ಸ್ಕೇಟಿಂಗ್ ಚಾಂಪಿಯನ್ ಶಿಪ್ ನಲ್ಲಿ ಭಾಗವಹಿಸಿದ್ದರು. ಈ ಸ್ಪರ್ಧಾಕೂಟದಲ್ಲಿ 15 ಕ್ಕಿಂತಲೂ ಹೆಚ್ಚು ದೇಶಗಳು ಭಾಗವಹಿಸಿದ್ದವು. [...]

Mangalore : A ten – year old, school going girl, Anwitha, celebrated her birthday at the city’s Patrika Bhawan, by planting a fruit – yielding tree today. This nature – loving young girl had already planted 300 vegetable – yielding plants and creepers in 5 years, and distributed the vegetables among her neighbours in city. [...]