Mustafa Bengre has been unanimously elected as the District President of the Students Islamic Organisation of India, Dakshina Kannada Unit (SIO DK), for the 2026 term. The election was conducted through an internal organisational process, led by SIO Karnataka State Secretary Sufyan Zain.

A 60-year-old man from Chelairu here was arrested by the Surathkal Police, who had earlier registered a case against him under the POCSO Act following a complaint by a girl alleging that he had raped her.

Speaker of the Karnataka Legislative Assembly U. T. Khader visited Bhatkal in Uttara Kannada district on Saturday and attended a local cricket match being played as part of a tournament organised by the Cosmos Sports Centre of Bhatkal.

The BIT Annual Athletics Meet 2025-26 was held on Thursday, December 11, at 9:30 AM at the BIT campus grounds here.

Sushravya, a second-year B.Sc student of St. Agnes College (Autonomous), Mangaluru, has entered the Golden Book of World Records by performing a continuous skating dance for four hours.

 Several major railway projects in Karnataka have come to a halt due to delays in land acquisition by the state government, even as the Centre has sharply increased funds for railway development in the state.

Police have registered a case under the POCSO Act against a shop owner, identified as Tikka Muhammad Gerukatte, accused of sexually assaulting a girl who used to visit his shop.

Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) leader Kalladka Prabhakar Bhat, booked under serious charges over making derogatory communal hate speeches against Muslim women and children, was granted anticipatory bail on Wednesday, December 10.