Sibanthi Padmanabha K V, Mangalore, DH News Service:
The comprehensive traffic and transportation plan (CTTP) for Mangalore, an ambitious project of the Directorate of Urban Land Transport, appears to take at least three more months to be completed from the stipulated time frame.
All party meeting decided to take a delegation to Centre and State government to urge them to announce special packages for yellow leaf disease and to waive off the loans of arecanut growers.
The farmers and representatives of various political parties discussed in length over the yellow leaf disease affecting arecant in a meeting on Sunday.
Hundreds of students of Manipal University and schools under the Academy of General Education were given talks on having a clean and green environment on the occasion of World Environment Day here on Friday.
Chancellor Dr Ramdas M Pai flagged off a jatha from the University building. The students later planted saplings near the hockey ground of the Manipal Institute of Technology.
Company chokes water supply of 25 families in Karnataka Kamala Shetty, resident of Kuthethoor village in Mangalore, was distressed when she looked into her well on a sunny April morning. The water, she found, was laced with oil. It
Demanding the government to drop the second phase of the Mangalore Special Economic Zone (MSEZ) and the proposed Petroleum, Chemicals and Petrochemicals Investment Region (PCPIR), different organisations of the Sangh Parivar under the banner of the MSEZ Pradesha Samrakshana Vedike held a protest rally in front of the Deputy Commissioner
The Rajya Sabha MP and former Union Minister, Mr Arun Shourie, has stressed the need for India to move ahead in introducing green taxation system.
Addressing presspersons on Tuesday during his visit to Mangalore, Mr Shourie said that India should be a pioneer in introducing green taxation in the world.
The District Health and Family Welfare Department has assured that the possibility of recurrence of Chikungunya this year is nil, and hence, the public need not worry.
