Coastal Districts

Mangaluru, Dec 22: All those who flew into Mangaluru from the United Kingdom, Denmark and the Netherlands since December 7 this year will have to undergo covid tests again after a new strain of covid-19 with high transmissibility was reported in the UK.

Bengaluru, Dec 22: Karnataka has noted that 531 passengers from the UK had arrived into the state on Sunday and out of them, 138 did not have COVID-19 negative certificates though all of them were asymptomatic.

MangaIuru, Dec 22: K M Shareef, former chairman of Popular Front of India, passed away today at a private hospital in the city following a few weeks of illness. He was 56.

Mangaluru, Dec 21: In the first phase of covid-19 vaccination drive in Dakshina Kannada, around 40,000 medical and paramedical staff are expected to receive the first shot.

Mangaluru, Dec 21: A gang of nine armed robbers struck at a house at Nooji in Kaukradi of Kadaba taluk in Dakshina Kannada in the wee hours of Monday and decamped with valuables after stabbing and assaulting the inmates of the house.

Mangaluru, Dec 20: Senior RSS leader and industrialist Manjeshwara Padmanabha Kamath died at his residence on Sunday. He was 94.

Mangaluru, Dec 20: Mangalore University Vice-Chancellor Prof P S Yadapadithaya said that the University will open a Centre for postgraduate studies at Belapu in Udupi and offer five Postgraduate (PG) courses from the next academic year of 2021-22.

Mangaluru, Dec 20: Union Minister for Road Transport and Highways Nitin Gadkari on Sunday said that the detailed project report (DPR) for a tunnel proposed along the Shiradi Ghat stretch is ready and tenders would be floated for the work in the next phase.

Mangaluru, Dec 19: Railways will run special daily trains between country's commerce capital Mumbai and port city Mangaluru from December 20.

Mangaluru, Dec 19: More than a day after an 8-year-old boy was kidnapped from Ujire in Dakshina Kannada district, the police managed to rescue him and arrest seven abductors.