Karnataka

Mangalore, June 19: Dakshina Kannada district police have nabbed eight interstate thieves who had been involved in several, theft, robbery and doctoity cases. Superintendent of Police Abhishek Goyal told media persons at his office on Tuesday that the sleuths of District Crime and Intelligence Bureau have arrested a man in connection with serial theft cases under the limits of Puttur police

Mangalore, June 19: Among the applications submitted this year for Hajj pilgrimage across the state, applications within Sl.No.880 have been disposed of and the concerned applicants are required to deposit their amounts in banks, Naqwa Yahya, DK and Udupi Hajj operations in-charge has informed. 480 applications from Dakshina Kannada district and 73 from Udupi district were disposed of in the first

Mangalore, June 19: Dozens of families were rendered homeless across coastal Karnataka as heavy rains and flash floods have continued to wreak havoc in various parts of Dakshina Kannada, Udupi and Uttara Kannada districts. Several houses were damaged in last 24 hours of rain in Dakshina Kannada. Three families on the banks of Gurupur River were shifted to safer place after their house was

Manipal, June 19: Even though the bodies of two Manipal Institute of Technology students were recovered from Mannupalla lake, the damaged pedal boat which had led to the tragedy in the wee hours of last Saturday is still missing. Udupi district Superintendent of Police M B. Boralingaiah has said that police have not yet traced the boat as the search operation so far was concentrated on recovering

Kundapur, June 19: A fisherman, who went for fishing at the Kubja River at Soukur village in Kundapur taluk on Sunday is reported to be missing. According to the Kundapur Taluk Office, a person Shekhar Poojary (38), a resident of Kandlur in Kavarady village, went for fishing with two of his friends at around 6 p.m. on June 17. He accidentally slipped from the rock on which he was standing and

Mangalore, June 18: In a rainy night serial theft, unknown culprits broke into a jewellery shop and a wine shop at Bantwal near here and fled with cash and jewellery worth nearly Rs 6 lakh. Burglars gained entry into Vaibhav Jewellery in the intervening night of Sunday and Monday and decamped with one-and-a-half kg of new silver ornaments, two kgs of old silver ornaments and a cash amount of Rs 1

Mangalore, June 18: Officials of Mangalore City Corporation conducted a surprise raid at the prominent malls in Mangalore on Monday to check if shops in the mall had been functioning without trade licenses. About 15 officials of the MCC conducted the raid. Shops in City Centre and Singapore City malls were asked to produce their trade licenses. About 15 shops were found to be functioning without

Mangalore, June 18: In a heartrending incident, a pedestrian was knocked down by a speeding city bus in the heart of the city on Monday. The victim, aged 50-55 years, was killed on the spot after being hit by the bus at around 11:00 am, while walking on the sidewalk of the road near Hotel Roopa at Hampankatta. The body was later shifted to the mortuary of Government Wenlock Hospital. However, the

Mangalore, June 18: More than one acre of land in Maravoor near Bajpe on the outskirts of the city has been flooded following the collapse of a retaining wall attached to an under-construction vented dam. Dozens of coconut and other trees have been uprooted and at least three houses in the area also have been partially collapsed due to the flash flood. Oswald, a local resident said that he lost

Mangalore, June 18: The Kali Valley environment awareness campaign and the Save Kali movement on Sunday passed a resolution urging the Union and State governments to take steps to protect the bio-diversity in the valley at a meeting at Keravadi. The meeting, attended among others by Sri Gangadharendra Saraswathi Swamiji of Swarnavalli Math, felt that the big dams built across the Kali river, the