• Traffic police have asked two-wheeler riders to wear helmets without fail. This advisory comes after 9 motorists, riding without helmets, were killed on the spot following head injuries in January alone.

  • Construction of a multi-level car parking facility near the LH is in limbo now. The high court issued an interim direction to the authorities not to prune or fell trees without the court’s permission.

  • Construction of a multi-level car parking facility near the LH is in limbo now. The high court issued an interim direction to the authorities not to prune or fell trees without the court’s permission.

  • Six persons have been arrested for allegedly running a thriving prostitution racket. Over the last two years, they’d killed three associates following differences over sharing of the spoils.

  • Both the BJP and Congress have decided to play the caste card in the coastal-Malnad belt, and have pitted a Billava (Idiga) vs a Bunt for the Udupi-Chikmagalur Lok Sabha bypoll scheduled on March 18.

  • The much awaited doubling of railway line between Hubli and Dharwad will be completed in next two years, said Praveen Kumar Mishra, divisional railway manager, SWR, Hubli.

  • People flying Kingfisher Airlines have had a tough time due to sudden revision and cancellation of flight schedule. Many people were stranded at airports in different cities due to last minute cancellation of flights.

  • Now on, liquor will not flow easily in Mooka Basarikatti village and other surrounding villages of Shiggaon taluk of Haveri district.

  • The Hubli-Dharwad Municipal Corporation (HDMC) has decided to conduct an inquiry by a retired district judge into the death of Yakub Yalapati, a pourakarmika inside a cross drain near toll naka.

  • Thanks to a helping hand extended by the Tata Marcopolo Company, residents of Kururbagatti and Belur villages in Dharwad taluk can now have the toilet facility.

  • Tension prevailed in front of the DDPU office following a protest by a group of students attached to different PU colleges demanding admission to write an exam on Tuesday.

  • The century-old government-run Cheluvamba Hospital, which is in the news following the death of a pregnant woman, who consumed toxic liquid, is functioning with skeleton staff.

  • District minister S A Ramdas on Tuesday said benefits worth Rs 500 crore will be distributed to one lakh beneficiaries by chief minister D V Sadananda Gowda in the city in March.

  • The turbulence in Kingfisher Airlines in November had led to cancellation of flight services to Mysore. Now, as the air operator is facing trouble, two other private airlines are preparing to reconnect the tourist hub to destinations like Bangalore, Chennai and Hyderabad.

  • A two-day state-level bamboo convention ‘Bidiru Mela 2012’ has been organized in Mysore from February 22 to 23.

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