The local vegetable market buzzes with activity at Moodbidri town in Dakshina Kannada district almost every day. Last Friday was no different.

The Dakshina Kannada district has recorded 213 dengue positive cases till Sunday from the beginning of this year.

The case of Dr Savita Halappanavar, who died in Ireland following pregnancy complications, was referred to in the council on Monday during the debate on the ill-effects of endosulfan in the coastal

The State government has sought Rs 101.55 crore from the Centre for implementing the National Urban Health Mission (NUHM) in Karnataka.

The proposal is likely to be approved within a month and the first phase of the programme will be implemented in September, a source in the Department of Health and Family Welfare said.

Heavy rains that lashed the State’s coastal districts claimed five lives in Dakshina Kannada and two in Kasargod district on Tuesday.

Four persons of a family were killed when a compound wall at a higher reach collapsed on their tiled roof houses below, in the wee hours of Tuesday, at Dalit Colony, Thottilaguri near Bajpe, in Mangalore taluk.

'Make Karnataka open defecation-free by 2018'

Union Rural Development Minister Jairam Ramesh on Friday expressed disappointment over the poor condition of sanitation in the State and set 2018 as the deadline for the Karnataka government to make state free of open defecation.

‘The project will submerge patches of the riparian forests’

The Ministry of Environment and Forests (MoEF) constituted high-level working group (HLWG) headed by Planning Commission member K. Kasturirangan has said that the government should reassess the impact that the Gundia hydroelectric power project will have on the environment and proceed with it with “extreme caution”. The HLWG submitted its detailed report on the Western Ghats in New Delhi on April 15.

Chief minister Jagadish Shettar has written to Union power minister to consider setting a UMPP in Karnataka

Karnataka has sought to push the Centre to set up an Ultra Mega Power Project ( UMPP) in the coastal Dakshina Kannada district. In a letter to Union Minister of State for Power, Jyotiraditya M Scindia, Chief Minister Jagadish Shettar noted that a team of officers visited four potential sites identified by Central Mine Planning & Design Institute (CMPDI) for setting up thermal power plants in coastal region of the state last year.

Sand miners are digging deep into the embankment of the Konkan Railway bridge across the Udyavara river, 6km from the city, putting it in danger.

Govt conducted unscientific, improper survey of Endo victims, alleges leader

Dakshina Kannada District Congress has decided to stretch a helping hand to more than 5,521 Endosulfan victims from 92 villages of Sullia, Puttur, Belthangady and Bantwal taluks in the district. Addressing a press conference in Mangalore on Thursday, Social Action Group for Empowerment (SAGE) Convenor and AICC Member P V Mohan said that Union Health Minister Gulam Nabi Azad has responded positively for the first hand report sent by district Congress about Endo victims through AICC General Secretary Oscar Fernandes and assured of taking immediate actions.