Mangaluru: In an incident reported from PVS Circle in the city here, a running car caught fire in the middle of the road triggering panic among the locals.

Mangaluru: CCB Police on Friday arrested another person in connection with the threatening graffiti writings at two places in the city. This has taken the total number of arrests in the case to three.

Mangaluru: The Mangaluru-Mysuru flight service from Alliance Air was inaugurated on Friday.

Mangaluru: Dr. Manjeshwar Shrinath Baliga, Senior Radiobiologist and in charge of Research at Mangalore Institute of Oncology, has featured in the ‘World Rankings of  Top 2% in a study conducted by Stanford University, USA and published in the journal Public Library of Science (PLoS) Biology. With a score of 3.58, Dr. Baliga is in the top 1.38% in the world; seventh in India, and first in the state of Karnataka in the field of Oncology & Carcinogenesis. The US-based Stanford University created a database of at least 1 lakh top scientists around the world and analyzed information on citations like the H-index, co-authorship, and composite indicator, from SCOPUS data provided by Elsevier for career-long impact by tabulating data from 1960 until the end of May 6, 2020.

Mangaluru: The Kanara Chamber of Commerce and Industry (KCCI) has requested Railway Minister Piyush Goyal to hand over the Mangaluru railway region to the South Western Railway (SWR).

Mangaluru: Two persons, arrested in connection with the graffiti on pro-terror that appeared on the walls at two places here recently, have been remanded to 10 days police custody.

Kundapur: In a tragic road mishap, Karnataka Milk Federation Director Rajiv Shetty died when his car rammed into a bridge after the driver lost control over the wheels here at Haladi in Kundapur Taluk on Wednesday afternoon.

Mangaluru: Dakshina Kannada Deputy Commissioner Dr. Rajendra KV on Monday spoke about the preparations for the two-stage election for the 3,222 seats of the 220 Gram Panchayats of Dakshina District, which began on Monday and said that EVM’s will not be used during the process.