Bantwal: A local Arecanut farmer who built a ‘Areca Tree Bike’ caught attention of tech giant Mahindra Group, Anand Mahindra on twitter who called on his companies President of farm equipment sector to have a close look on the product and check if the company can market the product.

Udupi: BJP MP and senior leader Shobha Karandlaje on Thursday in a tweet called the life imprisonment sentence to sacked IPS officer Sanjiv Bhatt as “Karma” and added that it doesn’t spare anyone.

Managluru: Mangaluru City Police on Thursday arrested a drug peddler in the city and seized 16 grams of Cocaine drug here in the city.

Bengaluru: BJP’s state general secretary and legislator CT Ravi on Thursday lashed out at the Congress-JD(S) coalition government in the state adding that it has hijacked Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Kisan Samman Scheme.

Mangaluru: In a major cricket betting bust, Barke police on Wednesday night arrested one person who was involved in cricket betting using a mobile application in the ongoing ICC Cricket World Cup.

Chikkamagaluru: Disappointed over the birth of baby girl, a father reportedly strangulated his one month-old baby girl to death at Buchenahalli Kaval village in the taluk on Wednesday.

Mangaluru: As part of the precautionary measures to be taken at the time of landslides, the National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) and the Natural Disaster Management Cell of the district administration conducted mock operation to be taken during the landslides at the Adyapadi hilly region near the Bajpe airport here on Wednesday.

Ullal: Dead bodies of an aged couple was found in a decomposed state in a house after they committed suicide in Chembugudde near Thokkattu here on Wednesday.