Udupi: In a significant legal development, the Second Additional District and Sessions Court in Udupi has acquitted two men charged with the murder of a 52-year-old canteen worker. The verdict, delivered on Friday, cited insufficient evidence against the accused, Vignesh Kutti and Naveen Kumar.

Mangaluru: Mangaluru International Airport received a bomb threat via email on June 18 at 12:43 PM, claiming an imminent explosion. The chief security officer has reported the incident to Bajpe police station.

Mangaluru: Despite a brief respite from the monsoon rains in Dakshina Kannada (DK) district on Thursday, authorities have issued a red alert for June 21, predicting heavy rainfall accompanied by thunder along the coastal regions.

The Indian Catholic Youth Movement (ICYM) City Deanery held its annual meeting and elections on June 16, 2024, in the mini hall of Holy Cross Church, Cordel, Kulshekar. The meeting commenced promptly at 4:00 PM, with the election process starting at 4:45 PM.

Wild elephants have been roaming freely in deeply wooded plantations allegedly causing a trail of destruction in several pockets of Udupi district, officials said on Wednesday.

Two women were killed, and another person suffered injuries after they were struck by lightning in different incidents in Kerala on Tuesday.

Senior lawyer and veteran Congress leader Cherkadi Vijay Hegde died of a heart attack on Tuesday morning.

A much-needed move towards digitisation in the private bus sector in Dakshina Kannada district will likely be witnessed as private buses will soon accept UPI payments from passengers, aiming to enhance convenience and efficiency of bus travel in the coastal region.