A bike rider lost his life while the pillion rider sustained critical injuries after the bike skidded near the Jeppinamogaru Mahakalipadpu Cross on the National Highway 66 during the wee hours of September 19, Monday.
Ullal Police have arrested a notorious criminal in connection with the incident of attempting to murder a fish trader who is also a rowdy sheeter at Ajjinadka, K C Road.
Former union minister and veteran Billawa leader B Janardhana Poojary has said that the Mangaluru Dasara celebrations will be celebrated in a unique way this year. It may be recalled here that the Covid-19 pandemic had prevented grand celebrations during the past two years.
Karnataka on Sunday reported 306 fresh COVID-19 cases and two deaths, taking the cumulative infections and fatalities to 40,61,463 and 40,234 respectively so far, said the Health Department.
An incident of a boy allegedly beaten up by a Madrassa teacher is reported from Derikatte of Harekala village on Sunday, September 18.
Over 1.58 lakh people in Karnataka have been bitten by dogs this year, according to the State Health Department. Another 2,677 people have been bitten by animals such as cats and monkeys that can also potentially spread rabies.
An elderly man who fell from a KSRTC bus in Peruvayi died on Saturday, September 17. The deceased has been identified as Inas D’souza, a resident of Keduvaru.
New Delhi National Zoological Park assistant veterinary officer Dr Sanath Krishna Muliya, who was part of the delegation that flew down from Namibia with the eight cheetahs to India, hails from Puttur.
The Mangaluru East police booked two students on charges of assaulting a second year PU student near Nantoor junction on September 15.
Members of Hindu Jagarana Vedike and Bajrang Dal, on Friday evening, handed over to the police a Muslim youth, who was staying at a lodge in Puttur with a young Hindu woman and her parents.
Karnataka recorded 476 new Covid-19 cases on September 16 taking the state’s active caseload to 3,735, according to the state government’s official bulletin released on Saturday.
Two artists from Brahmavar and Sastan in Udupi district have designed a 12-feet long rangoli portrait dedicated to Prime Minister Narendra Modi on his 72nd birthday on Saturday.
Hundreds of volunteers actively took part in a cleanliness drive at the Panambur Beach on September 17, Saturday as part of the Clean Coast- Safe Sea initiative under the Swachha Amrita Mahotsav.
Seeking to guard his children against stray dogs, a man carries an air gun while escorting young ones to their school in the Kasaragod.
An ambulance driver-owner from Moodbidri has won praise for taking an Uttar Pradesh based worker who was in a state of coma to his hometown from Moodbidri by travelling 2700 kms in just 41 hours.