Udupi: A car reportedly crashed into a tanker in an accident that occurred in the early hours of Wednesday causing grievous injuries to personnel from the Home Guard unit at Udyavar.

 It has been mandatory for those coming from Kerala to Karnataka via the D.K District border to possess a negative RTPCR report to avail entry into the district. In the wake of this mandatory requirement, check posts have been erected at the D.K and Kerala connecting border areas of Talapady,  Jaalsur, Nettanige Mudnur, and Gram Panchayat jurisdiction, where police are inspecting travellers and allowing entry to only those who possess an RTPCR negative report. 

Mangaluru: BJP Karnataka President and Dakshina Kannada MP Nalin Kumar Kateel’s brother passed away on Monday after brief illness. He was being treated at a private hospital in Puttur where he breathed his last.

Mangaluru: Dakshina Kannada Deputy Commissioner Dr. KV Rajendra on Monday informed that people traveling from Kerala into Dakshina Kannada district will have to mandatorily provide RT-PCR Negative report to enter the district.

Mangaluru: Noted Physician and activist Dr. Srinivas Kakkaliya along with a student and parents of students has issued a legal notice to the Karnataka government against the statement of the state’s Dy.CM wherein he had said the state will resume offline classes for students in colleges after a vaccination drive for students and teaching and non-teaching staff of colleges in the state.

 In the background of the 2-days weekend curfew in the Dakshina Kannada district, the police have undertaken strict measures of implementation. The vehicles running on the roads due to unnecessary reasons are being seized in this regard. 

Mangaluru: The city and service buses in Mangaluru and Dakshina Kannada District will resume services starting July 1 nearly two months after the services were halted due to COVID lockdown.

St Joseph Engineering College (SJEC), Mangaluru, has been conferred Fresh Autonomous Status with effect from the Academic Year 2021-22. The college was granted autonomy by the University Grants Commission (UGC) under the UGC Scheme for Autonomous Colleges 2018 in response to its application of November 2019. Recently, Visvesvaraya Technological University (VTU), Belagavi, notified autonomy for nine years starting from the coming academic year.