Kundapur: Lokayukta Police on Wednesday arrested an employee of the Kundapur Forest Department for allegedly accepting a bribe related to the release of a vehicle under the custody of the Forest Department.

Udupi: In a tragic incident, a rider died after a bus collided with his bike near Belurujedu cross on NH 66, on Wednesday afternoon.

In a confrontational General Body Meeting of the Mangaluru City Corporation on Wednesday, Opposition Leader Praveen Chandra Alva raised concerns about the alleged lack of distribution of housing sites to applicants during his six-year membership.

New Delhi: The NIA on Wednesday filed a charge sheet against two arrested accused in the alleged Islamic State-sponsored pressure cooker blast in Karnataka's Mangaluru last year, an official said.

Mangaluru: Ismail Nameer Ruknuddin, a 13-year-old student in Mangaluru, has secured first place in the kata and kumite categories at the national level competition organized by Guru Goju Ryu Karate Academy India. The competition, held in Mangaluru, featured Nameer in the 13-14 age category.

Mangaluru: The PP Gomathi Memorial Education Trust, in collaboration with the Department of Journalism at University College Mangaluru, recently hosted its annual lecture at the Ravindra Kalabhavana in the city. The guest for the event was Dr. Sindhu Manjesh, an award-winning journalist, Fullbright Humphrey Fellow, and former Lecturer at the University of Maine.

Mangaluru: In a strict action, Dakshina Kannada district Superintendent of Police Rishyant C.B during an SC/ST grievance redressal meeting, on Tuesday at his office, ordered police officers to register a case and scrap the licenses of those buses(both private and government) plying with passengers hanging on the footboard and vehicles used for transporting school children running overcapacity. “ A report of such cases from each police station should be submitted to me before 25th of December,” he added, instructing the Police Officers.

Mangaluru: In an incident reported on Tuesday morning, Zareena Shaheen Kola (57), a resident of Bhatkal, lost her life in a fire that broke out on the twelfth floor of a seventeen-story building in Attavar. The unfortunate incident occurred in the wee hours of Tuesday at around 4 o'clock.