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.

A MESCOM lineman was electrocuted while working on an electric pole at Parla near Alekkadi on Monday.

Days after Monsoon rains in the state went weak, the Indian Meteorological Department has forecasted intensified rains across the three coastal districts accompanied by heavy winds during the next few days.

The police have launched an investigation into the suspicious death of a 37-year-old woman, Hemavathi, at her residence in Biliyuru Darkhas near Perne on Sunday night.

A dead body of a young man was found under mysterious circumstances in Kanthamangala of Ajjawara village in Sullia on Monday.