KRV men block trains in Tiptur Hundreds of Karnataka Rakshana Vedike activists on Saturday blocked Hubli-Bangalore Inter City and Bangalore-Hubli passenger trains, in protest against the alleged injustice being meted out to Kannadigas in Railway recruitment.
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New office bearers list released Taluk panchayat CEO and Election officer B J Ravindra had released the list of 19 office bearers elected to the 14 departments in the recently concluded Tiptur Government Employees Association's election.
'Vivekananda's ideologies stand testimony to time' The ideologies of Swami Vivekananda which are based on the moral values are still relevant to this day, opined Central Excise Department Department's district officer T N C Sridhar.
'Youth should serve people' The present day youth need to follow the footsteps of the Vivekananda and should be creative and energetic, said BJP Chief Secretary R V Puttakamanna.
University fate in doldrums Though Tumkur University started functioning three years (2004) back owing to the pressure from the educationists, social workers and politicians of the region, it doesn't have its own campus unlike Bangalore, Mysore or Mangalore Universities.
Karnataka Bank Chairman Ananthakrishna inaugurating the Global Aloysian Alumni Reunion at St Aloysius College in Mangalore on Saturday. St Aloysius Institutions Rector Fr Francis Serrao, SIGMA (USA) Chairman Victor Pais, Fr Denzil Lobo and APNA founder Joe Gonsalves are seen.
There is a proposal to set up a commission for reorganisation of states. Is it desirable to have smaller states? Deccan Herald had invited its readers to comment on the topic. While some of the readers believe that it is good to have smaller states as it would help the government machinery to function effectively, others opine that the division of states would affect the already diminishing national unity and could only add troubles to the country.
