Udupi: A 43-year-old florist died after his two-wheeler was hit by a truck from behind National Highway 66, near Udyawar here in Udupi on Monday evening.

The dead bodies of a young couple were recovered from inside their apartment in a state indicating suicide, near Maroli in the jurisdiction of the Kankanady police station on Monday. 

A decades-old lone crocodile, claimed to be a vegetarian, that inhabited the lake at the Sri Ananthapadmanabha Swamy temple here and often found roaming inside its premises was found dead late on Sunday night.

A day-old child was found, apparently discarded, beside a road in Thokkottu near here on Thursday, much to the shock of the locals.

The owner of a hotel in Bantwal taluk of Dakshina Kannada district of Karnataka has been arrested on the charge of sexually abusing a minor boy who had gone to the hotel to buy food, police said on Friday.

Over 700 grams of gold worth Rs 38.53 lakh being smuggled into the country was seized at Mangaluru International Airport here, Customs officials said on Friday.

Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Adityanath, known for his unorthodox and contrary-to-democratic principle governance, is among the figures glorified and glamorized by the fringe right-wing groups across the country. In another such incident of celebrating the UP CM and his model of governance, a tableau carrying a parody of him along with a bulldozer was part of the Dussehra Rally 2022 in Mangaluru.

The Mangaluru 'dasara' celebrations of Kudroli Gokarnanatha temple here concluded in the early hours of Thursday with the immersion of the idols of Navadurgas and Goddess Sharada which were installed and worshipped at the temple auditorium for the last nine days.