A 24-year-old young man, known for his prowess in kabaddi and employed at a private company in Ujire, has tragically taken his own life by hanging himself at his residence in Puduvettu Kubala, Belthangady taluk.

Mangaluru: An incident of an unknown team falsely extracting a whopping amount of Rs 10.88 Lakhs from an individual on the pretext of providing a part-time job has come to light on Wednesday.

Mangaluru: The Deputy Director of the Department of Public Instructions (DDPI) of Dakshina Kannada has declared that, starting the first week of September, classes will be held for the whole day on a total of 14 Saturdays through the year in all schools in the district.

A 23-year-old conductor of a city bus in Mangaluru met with a tragic accident wherein he fell from the moving bus on Tuesday afternoon, resulting in his untimely death.

Bhatkal: The forest department officials on Tuesday arrested a man for hunting the national bird Peacock and illegally transporting it near Behalli under the Muttali Grama Panchayat limits.

A case was booked at the Bantwal Traffic Police Station against a contractor on Monday, for getting trucks and a road roller to asphalt a stretch of the national highway near Melkar in Panemangalore, thereby obstructing the easy movement of traffic on the highway.

During his tour of the district, Karnataka's Revenue Minister, Krishna Byre Gowda, visited the ongoing construction site of the new office building for the Dakshina Kannada Deputy Commissioner, located at Padil on the outskirts of Mangaluru city.

In the wake of India's accomplishment with Chandrayaan-3, the Central Arecanut and Cocoa Marketing and Processing Co-operative Limited (CAMPCO) has made an appeal to the Union Government to establish an ISRO laboratory unit in Udupi, as a tribute to the esteemed space research scientist, Prof. UR Rao. Prof. Rao played a pivotal role in shaping ISRO during its formative years.