Kundapur: A cheetah fell into a trap laid by the Forest Department near the house of one Dayanand Hegde in Kalawar based on a complaint filed by the locals. The forest department has succeeded in capturing two leopards within a week from the same place.

Moodbidre: The three-day literary and cultural extravaganza ‘Alva’s Nudisiri’ was inaugurated in a grand manner at St. Shishunal Sharif Hall in Sundari Ananda Alva campus in Moodbidre. This is the 15th edition of the grand festival, organised by Alva’s Education Foundation, Moodbidri.

Mangaluru: The Akhil Bharat Yuva Congress has revoked the suspension order of Dakshina Kannada district Youth Congress President Mithun Rai.

Bhatkal: A KSRTC Volvo bus conductor was killed when a branch of a tree pieced the vehicle in Bhatkal on Thursday night.

Padubidre: Several people were injured when a mad dog attacked them on Friday morning in the limits of Hejamadi Gram Panchayat here. 

Harsha S. Bhat, a CNRS (The French National Centre for Scientific Research) researcher at the Ecole Normale Superieure Laboratory of Geology, has been chosen for the prestigious Michel Gouilloud Schlumberger prize for 2018.

Since the construction of compound wall around the Indira Canteen on BC Road triggered political controversy, the police have beefed up the security by putting barricades around it on Thursday.

“The art will instill virtuousness among an artiste besides creating universal mentality. A person will become a citizen only when he leads life thinking that everything belongs to him. Let the Vidyarthi Siri illuminate the humanity”, said film actress and artiste Vinaya Prasad.