Karnataka

Mangalore, July 22: In a tragic incident, a fisherman was drowned and two others were rescued after their boat capsized near Kotepura Kodi in Ullal on Saturday. While Michael D'Souza (40), fisherman from Bunder, was washed away, David and Jayaram swam to safety. According to local fishermen, at around 6 a.m., their boat developed a technical snag and capsized owing to strong winds. Boy drowns

Mangalore, July 21: Several electricity poles were damaged in Yekkur and Police Lane when two trees were uprooted owing to strong winds on Saturday evening. Supply of electricity was snapped in Yekkur and Police Lane. Two electric poles were damaged when a tree near Ganapati temple in Police Lane fell on them. It also damaged a police motorcycle and a portion of a residential quarters in Police

Kasargod, July 21: Municipal and Health and Food department officials carried out raids in various hotels and food outlets, including bakeries, for the third day on Saturday as part of the State-wide searches being made in the wake of the recent death of a youth who consumed contaminated food items in an outlet in Thiruvananthapuram. Health officials inspect a restaurant in Kasaragod The

Bangalore, July 21: Four long months in prison under charges of waging a war against the Indian State, having to face the humiliation of being made to write an examination in chains and being denied permission to enrol into the third year of his journalism course at the Mangalore University, have evidently not dulled Vittal Malekudiya's resolve. Weeks after he was released, the 22-year-old shared

Mangalore, July 21: A decision with regard to banning plastic in Dakshina Kannada district would be taken soon, said C T Ravi, District In-charge Minister, Dakshina Kannada. He was speaking to media persons after participating in a review meet held at the Deputy Commissioner's office in Mangalore on Saturday. Responding to a query on plastic ban, Mr. Ravi admitted that at the moment, the

Mangalore, July 21: The Federation of Indian Rationalist Associations has strongly condemned the “unconstitutional behavior” of the government of Karnataka in ordering poojas to be performed at temples for rains. The condemnation comes a day after the BJP government sought “divine help” for rain and asked 37,000 temples in the state to conduct 'special poojas' that will cost Rs 18.5 crore. Muzrai

Mangalore, July 21: C.T. Ravi, the new Dakshina Kannada district in-charge Minister had to face protesters during his maiden visit to Mangalore after assuming the new office on Saturday, but the agitators turned out to be his former colleagues, the members of Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad. The protesters, who pitched tent outside the Deputy Commissioner's office, of submitted a memorandum to

Mangalore, July 21: A 20-year-old youth allegedly committed suicide on Friday at his at his sister's home in Kavoor Katte on the outskirts of the city. The deceased has been identified as Dhanush, a college student. It is learnt that Dhanush took the extreme step after failing to clear his examination. According to a case registered at Kavoor police station, Dhanush was enrolled at Sunkadakatte

Kasargod, July 21: Kasargod MP P Karunakaran has said that around 30,000 Marathi-speaking people residing in remote hamlets in the district would be re-enlisted as a Scheduled Tribe. The National Commission for Scheduled Tribes (NCST) took a decision in this regard following a meeting of the Union Scheduled Tribe Welfare Department and the Registrar General of India in New Delhi recently, Mr

Mangalore, July 21: The city police have reportedly taken two persons into custody in connection with the brutal murder of Shivaraj, a car mechanic, whose dead body was found near Thokur on Friday. The identity of the detained duo was not yet released by the police. Police said Shivaraj was taken by a couple of persons in van on Thursday night saying their another vehicle had developed starting