An old building of the local police station which is being used as the Home Guards office, was damaged due to a mysterious explosion inside the building here on Wednesday evening.

Hawwa Binthi Aboobakar , wife of Late K.A Muhammad Soofi Banakal passed away on Wednesday evening at her son's house in Kaikamba, Mangaluru. She was 77.

Mangaluru North Constituency defeated candidate from Congress Moideen Bava said that when voting was observed, as expected the Congress should have got the votes in some polling booths. But during the counting of votes, the result disappointed the Congress, he said.

Moodbidre constituency defeated candidate Abhaychandra Jain admitted that the factors like Modi and Hindutva campaign have worked out in Dakshina Kannada and Udupi districts in this election.

A mob pelted stones at religious places over the issue of bursting fire crackers at Adyar Padav in Kankanady police station limit here on Tuesday evening, May 15.

Dakshina Kannada district Khazi Shaikhuna Al Haaj Thwaqa Ahmed Al Azhari Ustad has declared the begining of Ramzan from Thursday, May 16

What it can be called as the mirror effect of 2013 poll results in coastal Karnataka, BJP bagged seven seats out of eight restricting congress to just one seat. While in 2013 congress had emerged victorious in seven assembly seats BJP was limited to just one.

Raising doubts over the reliability of EVMs, Seven Congress candidates led by Ramanatha Rai visited returning officer and filed an objection against the voting machines; when only one candidate out of eight candidates from the party emerged victorious in Dakshina Kannada in the state assembly elections.