Mangaluru: Many government primary schools in the twin districts of Dakshina Kannada and Udupi are facing a situation in which not a single student has enrolled for Class I (first grade) during the current academic year.

Four people were seriously injured and three cattle were killed in a car accident at Kuttaru Pandit House near Thokkottu in Dakshina Kannada at around 3:30 am on Sunday.

Five people, including children, were injured following a collision between two cars near Farla Church on the national highway from BC Road to Belthangady on Sunday morning.

A 32-year-old grocery shop owner has been arrested from Mulihithlu here on charges of murdering his labourer by setting him on fire and later passing it off as an electrocution, police said.

The Karnataka government will take adequate measures on a priority basis to find a permanent solution to prevent sea erosion in the coastal areas, state Minister for Women and Child Development Laxmi Hebbalkar said on Saturday.

Officials dealing with rain-related calamities will be directly responsible for any lapses on their part in taking precautionary measures in affected areas, Dakshina Kannada district-in-charge Minister Dinesh Gundu Rao has said.

Mangaluru: With the death of a woman in a landslip early Friday, the toll in rain-related mishaps in the twin coastal districts of Dakshina Kannada and Udupi this week has risen to eight.

Heavy rains continued to lash the coastal district of Dakshina Kannada in Karnataka on Friday causing havoc and disrupting vehicular movement in different parts of the region as a woman died in a landslip.