Police in Mangaluru arrested a man on Thursday, three days after he allegedly killed his eight-month-old daughter Mounashree. According to police officials, during interrogation, Laxman who is a construction worker confessed to killing his infant because she was a girl. He had already fathered tw

Kuwait/Mangaluru: The Indian Embassy officials in Kuwait were met by the Indian community leaders here on Tuesday May 28th, urging the embassy’s immediate intervention in connection to the 35 youths from Mangaluru who are stranded in the country after having being allegedly cheated by a placement ag

Bantwal: Bantwal police on Monday arrested three Bajrang Dal activists for allegedly issuing a death threat to Mithun Rai, the Congress candidate for the Lok Sabha elections from Dakshina Kannada. The arrested identified as Sachin (25) and Nishant (23), both residents of Bantwal and Karthik (30)

Mangaluru: High alert has been sounded in Karnataka coast on the basis of intelligence information that ISIS terrorists have left Sri Lanka for Lakshadweep islands. Kerala has already been warned of the threat. A close vigil on the lines of Kerala is being maintained by the state police as there

Mangaluru: Scores of people who had arrived at Panambur beach to enjoy in the sea water returned sadly fearing water pollution as the beach was populated by globules of oil on Saturday May 25. Apparently, black oil started accumulating along Panambur shoreline on Saturday evening and noticing the

Fans of Prime Minister Narendra Modi hosted an all-night Yakshagana show in Mangaluru on Friday for his second thumping victory in the Lok Sabha elections. It was sponsored by ‘TeaMModi’ group for fulfilling their ‘harake’ (wish) to get him re-elected. The show, with the ‘prasanga’ (episode) b

Mangaluru: Mangaluru South MLA Vedavyas Kamath has stepped in to help 35 Mangalorean youths who are stuck in Kuwait following a viral video of them seeking help from Indian authorities to return to their hometown. In the video, the youths are heard saying that a city-based placement agency Maniky

Moodbidri: Sujnan R Shetty from Moodbidri has achieved cent percent marks in the SSLC examination confirmed after revaluation thereby emerging as a state topper. He received his revaluations marks on Thursday May 23rd. Sujnan had attempted SSLC exam held in the months of March and April in 2019.

Byndoor: A woman lost her life in an accidental fire at Mayyedi in Byndoor on Thursday May 23rd. The deceased has been identified as Vasanti (40), daughter of Subraya Sherigar. Apparently, a heap of dry leaves caught fire due to a spark from a beedi and the fire spread to Vasanti’s clothes burnin

Two Indian men have arrived in the UAE on cycles pedalling 3,800-kilometer across three countries, three months after they set out on a cycling adventure to visit Makkah in Saudi Arabia. Muhammed Saleem, 53, and his 42-year-old friend Rizwan Ahmad Khan are from Bangalore and have been cycling und

In what has been an unprecedented mandate for the BJP in Karnataka, Anantkumar Hegde has won the Uttara Kannada seat for the sixth time, with a margin of 4,79,649 votes (after all rounds of counting, Hegde has bagged 7,86,042 votes and Anand Asnotikar, the runner-up, has garnered only 3,06,393). Thi

Karwar: A high-level meeting was convened in Kumta Taluk of Uttara Kannada by the leaders of different fishermen community organisations to discuss the disappearance of Suvarna Tribhuja fishing boat of Malpe. Speaking in the meeting, fishermen’s leader Ganapathi Ulvekar said that the fishermen co

Karwar: The Deputy Commissioner has imposed a ban on opening tattoo stalls during the religious fairs and religious annual events in the district, citing that such stalls do not adhere to rules and may contribute to spread of HIV. DC Dr Harish Kumar has said that the needles used by these stalls

Mangaluru: After a long dry spell, the residents of the city had come together to pray for early rains and as if in answer, the city received pre-monsoon showers in the early hours of Monday, May 20th. The weather in the city and its surroundings is presently cloudy. The late hours of Sunday nigh

Karwar: Keerthi Yallappa Hukkeri, who had been undergoing rigorous training in roller hockey under the Kaiga Skating Roller Club from the past eight years, is now the first female from the state representing Indian Women’s’ Roller Hockey team at the international level. Dilip Hanabar, who is the

The Manjunatheshwara Temple in Dharmasthala has asked devotees to postpone their temple visits due to acute water shortage in the Dakshina Kannada region. In a statement, Dharmasthala Dharmadhikari Veerendra Heggade on Friday said that the water scarcity crisis is worsening in Dakshina Kannada di

  Karwar: (Bhatkallys News Bureau) Union Minister of State for Skill Development and Entrepreneurship and the Member of Parliament for Uttara Kannada constituency, on Friday found himself in troubled waters after one of his tweet supporting Mahatma Gandhi’s killer Nathuram Godse, did not go

Udupi: Chandrashekhar Moger (30), who attempted suicide depressed over his missing brother Ramesh Moger who went missing along with six other fishermen on Suvarna Tribhuja boat, died today as he didn’t respond to the treatment. Both Ramesh and Chandrashekar are resident of Bhatkal’s Bunder Road.