Padubidre: Tollgate employees are staging flash protests pressing their various demands at Hejamadi and Sastana on National Highway 16 since this morning. Consequently, vehicles are moving without paying the toll fees at both the tollgates.

Sullia: A businessman committed suicide by hanging himself in the wee hours of Friday at Aramburu.

Bantwal: Police personnel, during the night beat on Thursday, arrested three persons cinematically by opening fire at a car that tried to escape without stopping at Manihalla in Bantwal taluk.

SP Lakshman B Nimbargi said that Hiriyadka police station PSI DN Kumar was suspended on charges of showing dereliction of duty in handling the suspicious death of cattle trader Husenabba of Jokatte of Mangaluru.

Manipal Centre for Virus Research head and Prof Dr Arun Kumar on Thursday clarified that a hoax has been doing rounds in the social media that the source of Nipah virus is poultry chicken and no chicken were tested in the Manipal centre.

 One killed in an accidental firing from a country-made gun at Devagiri of Neriya village in the taluk on Wednesday late night.

A Hindu youth arranged an Iftar party in mosque for his Muslim friends in Mardhala. This gesture of the youth was widely praised by the locals.