During the asphalting of the Vitla main road in Bantwal Taluk, an area of the road where a car was parked was left untouched while the rest of the road stretch was covered on Wednesday.

 In the backdrop of COVID-19, according to the voluntary order issued by the Yenepoya (Deemed to be University), 9 educational institutions run by the Yenepoya group were instructed to temporarily close from March 15th, Monday. 

In an incident that occurred early Tuesday morning, a moving car suddenly caught fire and completely burned down on the Someshwar road which falls under the Mudradi Gram Panchayat jurisdiction. Reportedly, the sole passenger in the car escaped the vehicle unhurt. 

Vindya G Bhandary and Ashel Leanne D’silva, students of Yenepoya PU College Mangaluru bagged 6 Gold Medals and 2 individual Championships under the training of Rajesh Antony Bengre and Yashoda G Bhandary, in the District level swimming competition held at Puttur.

In a heart-wrenching incident that occurred on Monday, a young man who had gone to the marketplace to bring flowers for the funeral rites of his father who had passed away in the morning, also died in a road accident near the SBI Circle at Sirsi. It is learned that another youngster accompanying him has also died in the accident.

A 25-year-old man died of electrocution while he was picking black pepper and accidentally touched live wire on Monday morning. The incident was reported from Koluru village in Mudigere Taluk here in the district.

Bank employees in the Dakshina Kannada district began their strike on Monday morning under the direction of the forum for Federal Bank Unions, opposing the new announcement in the Central Budget 2021, which has declared the privatization of a insurance company and 2 banks in the public sector. 

Mangaluru: Customs officials at Mangaluru International Airport (MIA) on Saturday seized gold weighing 737 gm valued at over Rs 33 lakh from a 45-year-old man who arrived by an Air India flight from Dubai.