Due to heavy rains that has been lashing the district for the last few days, streams and rivers were in spate creating flood situation in many parts of the district. Repeated landslides in various villages have left the people in panic and appealing for help.

Former minister Ramanath Rai said that when he was the forest minister in the previous Congress government, he had written to the government demanding rejection of Dr Kasturirangan report.

Following the closure of Shiradi and Madikeri Ghat roads due to landslides, the Mangaluru KSRTC division would run Volvo bus service to  Bengaluru via SK Border and Kudremukh during day time.

Tamil Nadu will remember former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee as a very humble person who touched the feet of a woman from a village near Madurai.

A four-year-old boy died when the wall of a house collapsed on him at Konandur KEB road in Thirthahalli taluk on Thursday morning.

The Centre on Thursday announced a seven-day national mourning and state funeral for the late former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee, who will be cremated at Smriti Sthal on the banks of river Yamuna on Friday.

Former prime minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee who died after prolonged illness at AIIMS at New Delhi on Thursday, had visited Udupi, the temple town, six times in his lifetime.

The process for receiving claims and objections from the public, including 40 lakh ineligible people who were not included in the complete draft NRC, would begin from Aug 30, as the Supreme Court on Thursday sought views of AASU, AAMSU and Jamiat-Ulama-E-Hind on the Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) prepared by the the Centre.