Udupi: Coastal Security Police (CSP) has instructed all watersports boat owners to obtain permission from the respective departments mandatorily. Officials said that while there are 227 watersports boats under nine CSP limits, 151 have obtained permits and they have warned all remaining boat owners to register themselves before legal actions are initiated.It is mandatory to…
Bharathesha Alasandemajalu has been selected for the International Wikimania 2026 conference to be held in Paris, France, from July 21 to 25 Mangaluru: Bharathesha Alasandemajalu has been selected for the International Wikimania-2026 conference to be held in Paris, France, from July 21 to 25.An executive member of the Karavali Wikimedians User Group in Mangaluru, he…
Mangaluru: Mangaluru City South MLA D Vedavyas Kamath congratulated the police department and police commissioner Sudheer Kumar Reddy on the arrest of 11 illegal Bangladeshi immigrants in the city. He stressed that it was entirely a police operation and that the Congress govt in the state had absolutely no role in it. Kamath alleged that…
Mangaluru: Puttur MLA Ashok Kumar Rai has urged minister for rural development and panchayat raj Priyank Kharge to sanction Rs 101 crore to implement an inclusive drinking water distribution network in the Vitla town panchayat limits under Bantwal taluk.The MLA, who met the minister and submitted a memorandum, said that once the government approves the…
Dakshina Kannada MP Capt Brijesh Chowta (second left) attends the inauguration ceremony of the redeveloped Bantwal railway station Friday Mangaluru: Prime Minister Narendra Modi Friday inaugurated the redeveloped Bantwal railway station under the Amrit Bharat Station Scheme at a cost of Rs 26.1 crore through video conferencing from Jalandhar Cantonment railway station in Punjab.Bantwal was…
Mangaluru: Bantwal town police have registered three separate cases against multiple social media accounts and WhatsApp groups for allegedly circulating edited photos and spreading fake, provocative content aimed at disrupting communal harmony in connection with the murder.A case has been registered under sections 196 and 353(2) of BNS against an Instagram account and five WhatsApp…
Mangaluru: A month after the Kerala govt rolled out the Priyadarshini scheme offering free bus travel for all women including those from Karnataka, private bus operators from Dakshina Kannada on the Talapady and Kinya routes have reported a sharp fall in passengers, especially women commuters.Operators said women are increasingly opting for Kerala buses, which has…
Gold and silver seized from arrested suspects Mangaluru: Mangaluru City police arrested three notorious house burglars from Nepal and recovered stolen gold and silver ornaments valued at approximately Rs 10 lakh on Friday.The arrested are Thilak Kumar Khadka alias Tilak Khadka,36, a resident of Khetkot, Masta Rural municipality, Chainpur; Ashok Raj alias Ashok Singh alias…
Mangaluru: Dakshina Kannada police on Friday arrested the man accused of hacking a 21-year-old woman to death near the KSRTC New Bus Stand at BC Road in Bantwal. Dakshina Kannada SP Arun K said the accused, identified as Chethan,22, a resident of Odinala in Belthangady, had allegedly consumed rat poison before he was traced and…
A 22-year-old suspect has been arrested in connection with the machete murder of a nurse, who he was distantly related to MANGALURU: A day after a 21-year-old nurse was hacked to death at a crowded bus stand in Karnataka’s Dakshina Kannada district, the accused was admitted to hospital after allegedly consuming rat poison during interrogation,…
