Kasaragod: Coronavirus scare nearly derailed the marriage of a couple in Kerala as procedural wrangles kept the bride from Karnataka and the groom, in their wedding attire, waiting for nine long hours on two sides of a border check-post before they finally came to be united.

Mangaluru: Bekal Ibrahim Musliyar, qazi for Udupi, Chikkamagaluru and Hassan districts, has asked the people to observe Eid ul-Fitr in a simple manner, in the backdrop of the Corona lockdown.

Mangaluru: The second Air India flight to Mangalore from Dubai arrived at the Mangalore International Airport on Monday evening with 178 stranded Indians as a part of operation Vande Bharat from UAE due to COVID-19 lockdown.

Mangaluru: Twitter users, mainly from Coastal Karnataka demanded apology from media houses for reporting fake news and for defaming Bhatkal in the wake of spread of COVID-19.

Mangaluru: Dakshina Kannada District on Monday evening reported two more positive cases of Corona Virus, according to the latest health bulletin issued by Department of Health and Family Welfare on Monday evening.

 Winston Sebastian Pais, a third-year Computer Science and Engineering student of St Joseph Engineering College (SJEC), Mangaluru, brought laurels to the institute by winning the First Place in the State Level Online Coding Contest “Debug Your Lockdown” HACK-2020, conducted by ISTE Karnataka Section.

Heavy rain accompanied by thundershowers and lightning lashed various places in Dakshina Kannada district, including Mangaluru City on Monday morning. 

Katapadi: A 20-year-old youth died after a thunderbolt stuck him at Padu Yengudde in JN Nagar here on Sunday night.