Social activist Girish Mattannavar has stated that when Chinnayya personally revealed, in detail, the information about the bodies allegedly buried illegally in Dharmasthala, including those of victims of rape and murder, Nirmalananda Swamiji was stunned.

 A 28-year-old Sangh Parivar worker, Shivaprasad, also called as Annu Madiwala, was arrested by Karkala Rural Police under charge of selling cattle to a slaughter house in Nallur.

Urva Police on Tuesday arrested two individuals on charges of selling the narcotic drug MDMA. The accused have been identified as Syed Kalimulla (31) of Ramanagara in Shivamogga district and Ashraf Ali (26) of Mangalpady in Manjeshwar.

Udupi-Chikkamagaluru MP Kota Srinivas Poojary has urged the union government to expedite the development works and take up doubling of tracks of the Konkan railway, a crucial railway route connecting Kerala, Mangaluru and Goa to Mumbai.

RSS leader Dr. Kalladka Prabhakar Bhat has been granted bail by the Puttur Fifth Additional District and Sessions Court in a case related to alleged communal hate speech.

A man who was seriously injured in a road accident on the National Highway 66 stretch near the Yermal Thenka bridge early Wednesday died while undergoing treatment at a private hospital.

A 34-year-old man from Dakshina Kannada’s Bantwal taluk died in a road accident near Kudlu gate in the city on Tuesday.

Acting on a tip-off about the sale of banned narcotic substance MDMA, Ullal Police conducted a raid at Tachani in Talapady village under their jurisdiction and arrested three accused.