FIR against (L) BJP MLA Yashpal Suvarna. Rahul Gandhi (R) File Photo UDUPI: Udupi Town police have registered an FIR against BJP MLA Yashpal Suvarna over allegedly inflammatory remarks made during a protest against the Congress and CJP on Tuesday. Udupi SP Hariram Shankar said the remarks were prima facie categorised as hate speech. The…
An initiative to refurbish and upgrade police barricades across Udupi district has been launched Udupi: A major initiative to refurbish and upgrade police barricades across Udupi district has been launched with the support of a private party.SP Hariram Shankar said that as part of the first phase of the project, eight police barricades in the…
Mangaluru: Police have taken a 22-year-old accused into custody in connection with the murder of a 21-year-old woman near the KSRTC New Bus Stand at BC Road in Bantwal on July 16.The accused, Chethan, a resident of Odinala in Belthangady, allegedly attacked and killed Lavanya, a resident of Uli village in Bantwal taluk. He had…
Udupi: Kota police seized 160 quintals of rice, allegedly meant for distribution under the state govt’s Anna Bhagya scheme, while it was being transported without a permit at Manoor village in Brahmavar taluk on Tuesday.Acting on information received around 10am on Tuesday, Brahmavar food inspector Vasanth Kumar, Kota police sub-inspector Praveen Kumar and other personnel…
Mangaluru: The Combined Annual Training Camp (CATC-13) and the group-level selection camp for the Republic Day Camp (RDC-I), organised by the 18 Karnataka Battalion NCC, began at the Mangalore Institute of Technology and Engineering (MITE), Moodubidire, on July 22.The 10-day camp, which will conclude on July 31, has brought together 610 NCC cadets from institutions…
Mangaluru: Repositories preserving manuscripts in Tulu, Kannada and Sanskrit have been identified in Dakshina Kannada under the Union government’s Gyan Bharatam Mission (GBM), the Centre informed the Lok Sabha on Monday.Responding to an unstarred question raised by Dakshina Kannada MP Capt Brijesh Chowta, Union culture and tourism minister Gajendra Singh Shekhawat said the repositories were…
Mangaluru: Two persons have been booked for allegedly obstructing civic officials and staff during an anti-encroachment drive near Town Hall in Mangaluru.According to a complaint filed by Bharathi, she, her colleague Deepika Shalini D’Souza and other Mangaluru City Corporation (MCC) staff were clearing unauthorised vendors from the footpath near Town Hall on Sunday. The drive…
The proposed railway line passes through Bhagwan Mahavir Wildlife Sanctuary and Mollem National Park in Goa and Kali Tiger Reserve in Karnataka Mangaluru: A new study has flagged methodological shortcomings and gaps in biodiversity and social-impact assessments in the Wildlife Institute of India’s (WII) environmental impact assessment (EIA) for the proposed doubling of the Tinaighat–Kulem…
Mangaluru: A student among the 159 college students screened for drug consumption during surprise checks at Kotekar-Beeri and Konaje on Tuesday tested positive, said city police commissioner Sudheer Kumar Reddy CH.The drive was conducted between 4.30pm and 6pm by the assistant commissioners of police of the South and Central subdivisions under the supervision of the…
The accused is Peter Augustine Martis, a resident of Ramasamudra in Karkala Kasaba village Udupi: Karkala Town police have arrested a 60-year-old man who had allegedly been absconding for nearly 36 years in connection with a criminal case.The accused, Peter Augustine Martis, a resident of Ramasamudra in Karkala Kasaba village, was wanted in a long-pending…
