Coastal Districts

Karwar, Aug 11: Hard-line BJP leader and Uttara Kannada MP Anant Kumar Hegde stirred up another controversy, by dubbing the BSNL employees 'traitors'.

Mangaluru, Aug 10: Abush A L from Dakshina Kannada is one of the six students who scored a perfect 625 out of 625 in Karnataka SSLC examinations, the results of which were announced today.

Mangaluru, Aug 10: Moderate to heavy rain continued to lash across Karnataka’s coastal districts of Dakshina Kannada, Udupi and Uttara Kannada on Monday.

Udupi, Aug 10: Civic workers in Udupi today rescued a newborn girl which was dumped in a garbage bin near Chittaranjan circle in the city. The child was immediately shifted to the district government hospital. "The girl baby is out of danger and is doing well," Legal-cum-Probation Officer at District Child Protection Unit (DCPU), Prabhakar Achar, said. It is learnt that the Pourakarmikas cleaning

Mangaluru, Aug 10: Coronavirus has claimed the life of a senior artist in coastal Karnataka. Shekhar Bhandary, aka Karkala Shekhar Bhandary, a local film actor, limericks writer, humourist was under treatment at a private hospital in Mangaluru. He lost his battle for life on Monday, August 10. Born to Babu Bhandary and Abhaya Bhandary couple from Bettada Mane in Karkala, he had started his acting

Udupi, Aug 10: A powerful explosion at a food products factory at Mabukala near Brahmavar in Udupi district claimed the life of its owner yesterday.

Mangaluru, Aug 10: All private medical college hospitals in Dakshina Kannada should compulsorily allocate 50 % of their beds to the government for treating COVID-19 patients, said district in-charge minister Kota Srinivasa Poojary.

Udupi, Aug 10: A 38-year-old man has been arrested by the Udupi district police on charge of giving triple talaq to his wife through social media. He is now in judicial custody.

Mangaluru/Udupi, Aug 9: The coastal districts of Dakshina and Udupi recorded 414 covid cases in past 24 hours. While DK recorded 132 cases, Udupi reported 282 cases.

Mangaluru, Aug 9: An eight-year-old boy in Dakshina Kannada district choked to death after a piece of chocolate he was eating got stuck in his throat.