Coastal Districts

Udupi, Aug 24: Family members of a patient who died due to COVID-19 staged a protest at a hospital in Kundapura, Udupi after they allegedly received the wrong body.

Udupi, Aug 24: Chief Minister BS Yediyurappa has ordered the release of Rs 6 lakh compensation each for the families of four fishermen who died in a boat accident, at Koderi, Kirimanjeshwara in Udupi’s Byndoor taluk.

Mangaluru, Aug 24: Benedict Miranda, Konkani theatre activist and playwright popularly known as Benna Ruzai, passed away on Monday. He was 74.

Udupi, Aug 24: In the wake of the parish priest of Mother of Sorrows Church of Udupi testing positive for Covid-19, the Church management has barred devotees from visiting the church up to August 31 as a precautionary measure.

Mangaluru, Aug 24: In a gruesome incident, a youth from Beltangady in Dakshina Kannada district killed his own father over a trivial issue.

Mangaluru, Aug 23: C Ahmed Jamal, a prominent leader of Indian Union Muslim League (IUML) passed away today at his residence.

Mangaluru: Well-known city-based businessman Haji K Khalid Bava passed away at a private hospital here after a brief period of illness on Saturday, August 22. He was 88.

Mangaluru/Udupi, Aug 22: The covid-19 tally in coastal Karnataka’s twin districts of Dakshina Kannada and Udupi today cross 20 thousand-mark.

Kasaragod, Aug. 22: The state-of-the-art Covid19-care hospital that is being completed in a five-acre land in Thekkil in Chemnad panchayat near here, sponsored by the Corporate Social Responsibility division of the Tata Group, will be formally handed over to the district authorities by late this month. Expected to give the much-needed boost to the medical care facilities for Covid19 treatment in

Mangaluru, Aug 22: Unidentified miscreants pelted soda bottles at Taqwa Masjid located at Pumpwell in the city early today morning.