Udupi: With the water level going down at the Baje dam, across the Swarna, from where drinking water is supplied to Udupi city, the Udupi Zilla Nagarika Samiti conducted a wedding ceremony of a male and female frog praying for rains, here on Saturday.

Mangaluru: City police have informed that they have arrested a person in connection with a Chikkamagaluru girl student's murder case, the body of whom was found a paying guest hostel in the City on Friday evening.

Bengaluru: Urban Development Minister UT Khader has said that 'Sand Bazaar', which has begun experimentally in Dakshina Kannada to prevent sand deficit, will be held across the state in coming days.

Mangaluru: An unidentified man's body was found with hands tied up with clothes, neck with cotton rope and injuries on stomach in Gurupur Phalguni River near Tipu Nagar here. It is suspected the person must have been murdered.

Mangaluru: Sale of cigarettes is prohibited near schools-colleges. If such cases are found, the public can take photograph and send to police through Whatsapp so that police can take action. Besides, the department will try to implement the COTPA Act more effectively, DCP Hanumantharaya said.

Mangaluru: A student of Chikkamagaluru was found dead on Friday evening in suspicious circumstances at a home in Mangaluru.

Mangaluru: Lakshmi Ganesh, deputy commissioner of police (Crime and Traffic) has said that based on complaints received by public through phone-in programmes, social media, and on other platforms; a special team would be formed to carry on a special operation against city buses in Mangaluru.

Kapu: The bike rider died as the bike rammed into the divider in the NH-66 at Kapu on friday afternoon.