Puttur SDPI city unit president was electrocuted on the spot near Darbe in the city on Wednesday midnight.

The terrifying natural disaster which devastated Kodagu in Karnataka and Kerala state has given a strong warning against exploitation of nature and the need to protect it. Interestingly, this warning has inspired many to take up environmental conservative activities. Now, three young bikers have decided to make their hobby as an awareness drive.

Unable to repay the loans, a farmer committed suicide by hanging himself at Koila village near here on Wednesday.

Cooperative Minister Bandeppa Kashempur said that Chief Minister H.D. Kumaraswamy would launch ‘Badavara Bandhu’ scheme, aimed at giving micro-loan to roadside vendors to make Karnataka free from ‘meter baddi’ business, before Diwali festival.

A youth electrocuted when he came in contact with a live wire of power connection of the house, at Kukkaje of Kedila village in Bantwala taluk on Tuesday.

Mangaluru: Demanding life imprisonment to the killers of Ganjimutt resident Sameer, his family members on Thursday filed a complaint with the city police commissioner. “If the accused in the Ganjimutt resident Sameer murder case were released on bail, they would again be involved in such crime,” the family members said.

Mangaluru: As a deep depression over the Bay of Bengal had intensified into a cyclonic storm, Titli, and was moving towards the Odisha-Andhra Pradesh coast; it has also affected the west coast.

Hebri: The forest officials arrested two men of Vitla for allegedly pouching wild animals at Hebri.