Unable to repay the loans, a farmer committed suicide by hanging himself at Koila village near here on Wednesday.

Cooperative Minister Bandeppa Kashempur said that Chief Minister H.D. Kumaraswamy would launch ‘Badavara Bandhu’ scheme, aimed at giving micro-loan to roadside vendors to make Karnataka free from ‘meter baddi’ business, before Diwali festival.

A youth electrocuted when he came in contact with a live wire of power connection of the house, at Kukkaje of Kedila village in Bantwala taluk on Tuesday.

Mangaluru: Demanding life imprisonment to the killers of Ganjimutt resident Sameer, his family members on Thursday filed a complaint with the city police commissioner. “If the accused in the Ganjimutt resident Sameer murder case were released on bail, they would again be involved in such crime,” the family members said.

Mangaluru: As a deep depression over the Bay of Bengal had intensified into a cyclonic storm, Titli, and was moving towards the Odisha-Andhra Pradesh coast; it has also affected the west coast.

Hebri: The forest officials arrested two men of Vitla for allegedly pouching wild animals at Hebri.

The City Crime Branch (CCB) police arrested a notorious inter-district chain snatcher, wanted in various chain snatching and other cases in various police stations limits in Mangaluru and Udupi district.

"Banks will have losses with the merger of nationalised banks. There is no proof that the merger of nationalised banks will strengthen the banking sector", said United Forum of Bank Unions district convener Vincent D'Souza.