Mangaluru: Elections began for Ullal and Puttur City Municipal Corporations, Bantwal Town Municipal Corporation and Udupi distrcit’s four local bodies today. Of the 89 wards, 1,17,979 voters are required to elect 89 Representatives, with a total of 250 candidates in the arena.

A stranger behaved indecently before four girls when they were walking on the Mangaluru university campus on Wednesday evening. Condemning this sudden development, the students resorted to protest boycotting the classes in front of the Administrative Block of the university and demanded his immediate arrest.

Ashraf (14), son of Imtiyaz of Sunnathkere of Kuvettu village in the taluk was missing since Wednesday.

The transfer of senior officer in Revenue department, Praveen Chandra Karkera in the illegal hoarding removal issue rocked the general body meeting of the City Corporation here on Thursday.

A case was registered against a teacher at the police station here on Thursday on charges of sending obscene message to his student.

Accusing that the state government has caused hundred problems in its hundred days administration, Leader of Opposition in the Legislative Council Kota Srinivasa Poojary said that the JDS-Congress coalition government which promised of giving stable administration, has done nothing to instill confidence among people.

 The police personnel in Mangaluru City and DK district will be recruited like that in Bengaluru, said ADGP Kamal Pant.

Mangaluru University students today staged a flash protest against the alleged attempt to harass and sexually assault students at Mangaluru University Campus by an unidentified person today.