MANIPAL : With effect from the month of July, most bars in the student town were obliged to shut down in compliance with the Supreme Court (SC) verdict of December 15, 2016 and since their yearly liquor license expired in June. The SC had passed a...
UDUPI: Three bus drivers/conductors, Raghavendra Prabhakara Badigera (35), Yuvraj Kattekaar (35) and Veeraiyya R. Hiremath (41) were arrested for the alleged gang-rape of a 15-year-old minor from Udupi, Karnataka on July 9. The accused were employed by the KSRTC (Karnataka State Road Transport Corporation) and were arrested...
Udupi: Though here to protest an iftar and namaaz organized by the chief seer of the Paryaya Pejawar Mutt, the Sri Ram Sena and the Hindu Janajagruti Samiti made varying demands at the joint protest prayers held in the town of Udupi this morning. The chief...
The barricaded lane leading to the protest site at Delhi's Jantar Mantar is dotted with makeshift tents, each with colourful placards hung outside them and covered with banners protesting for a cause. From the 2011 India Against Corruption movement to the Nirbhaya gangrape incident, and...
The month of May was a significant one for Poorvaprabha Patil, a student at the Kasturba Medical College (KMC), Manipal as she was selected to attend the 2nd Multi-Stakeholder Forum on Science, Technology, and Innovation for Sustainable Development Goals (STI for SDGs) at the UN...
Last Sunday the town of Birmingham saw the largest crowd it had ever seen gather for a one-day cricket match. The match also saw nearly a billion T.V. viewers, according to The Telegraph. The occasion: yet another clash of the sub-continental giants India and Pakistan. But...
In line with our report on the change in scenery at Kamath Circle and the developments with regards to the new Student Plaza, The Manipal Journal had a chance to interact with Dr. GK Prabhu on issues relating to the move. In this interview, the MIT...
In India, the practice of ‘manual scavenging’, the handling of human excreta has historically been reserved for a particular group of people just because of the accident of their birth into the lowest caste. Bezwada Wilson, born into the same community, broke the barriers of society...
Comedians Aadar Malik, Neville Shah and Kautuk Srivastava from the Schitzengiggles Comedy (SNG Comedy) took center stage here on the penultimate day of the first edition of KMC’s cultural fest ‘Invictus’. In an attempt to have a singular and bigger fest, Kasturba Medical College merged ‘MIST’,...
Amongst the most successful cricketers in India, Shekhar Naik has led India to victories in the T20 Blind World Cup in 2012 and the Blind Cricket World Cup in 2014. The veteran sportsman recently received the Padma Shree award from the President, alongside fellow cricketer...