Puttur: A moving car caught fire and reduced to ashes on Monday in the limits of Sampya rural police station limits.

Mangaluru: In order to condemn the BSNL administration’s move to dismiss 90 contract-based workers working in various exchanges in the district, a protest was staged in front of BSNL office located in Pandeshwara on Monday.

Manjeshwara: Five persons including three women were killed and eight others injured in a horrific accident between a lorry and Toofan jeep at 6 am today at Nayabazar in Uppala on NH 66.

Vittla police on Sunday arrested four persons on charges of obstructing the police from discharging their duty and attempting to assault them.

The police on Sunday arrested one person on charges of doing illegal activities in the name of massage centre at Chilimbi Moksha Therapy Centre in Urwa police station limit in the city and rescued three girls.

Unable to carry the body of an aged woman who passed away on Sunday for cremation, the family members made the body to float through flood water at Kambala Katte in Moodubettu village in the taluk.

The police have brought underworld fugitive don Bannanje Raja who is in Belagavi jail, to Udupi to see his mother who is suffering from illness, following the permission from the Principal District and Sessions Court of Udupi on Sunday.

Due to heavy rains that has been lashing out for the last two days, one day holiday was declared for schools and colleges in Kaup taluk on July 9.