Highlights of the Union Budget for 2019-20 presented by Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman in Parliament Friday:
Puttur: Before forgetting a gang rape incident which rocked the district, a married man has been arrested for attemted rape of a girl.
Udupi: Woman and Child Welfare and district Minister Dr Jayamala paid her last respect to Karkala former MLA Gopala Bhandari who passed away on Thursday, at the Kissan Bhavan on Friday.
A Nationalist Congress Party leader Friday handed over a few crabs to the police here after a minister claimed that the crustaceans were responsible for a dam breach in coastal Maharashtra.
A special court here Friday granted bail to Sanjeev Punalekar in rationalist Narendra Dabholkar murder case. Punalekar, a lawyer by profession, and his assistant Vikram Bhave were arrested by the CBI in the case on May 25.
An Indian woman has won a whopping USD 3.2 million in the monthly raffle draw in the UAE and said that she wants to use a part of the money for underprivileged people, especially women, according to media reports on Friday.
Describing the Union Budget as "insipid" and "old wine in a new bottle", the Congress on Friday alleged that Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman belied expectations and gave no "meaningful relief" to any section of society.
The Madras High Court Friday granted one month parole to Nalini Sriharan, serving life sentence in the Rajiv Gandhi assassination case, after she argued her plea in person for seeking the relief to make arrangements for her daughter's wedding.
Mangaluru: The Cybercrime police of Mangaluru, in association with Delhi police have arrested the accused who were collecting money and cheating people on the pretext of providing loan with less interest than Indian Finance.