Uppinangady: Uppinangady police arrested a rape accused who had been absconding for the last 19 years in a case of rape there in 2004.

Mangaluru: For the first time after taking over as Congress President, Rahul Gandhi arrived at Mangaluru today.

Bengaluru: Ahead of the upcoming assembly polls, the Karnataka cabinet on Monday agreed to consider the Hindu sect of Lingayats as a separate religion, state Law Minister T.B. Jayachandra said.

Hiriadka: Two persons died on the spot when a bus they were travelling in toppled in a roadside trench at Puttige near Perduru.

Mangaluru:  All passengers aboard a flight were asked to disembark from the aircraft when smoke started to billow out of the aircraft's engine, just before takeoff, at the Mangaluru international airport on Wednesday morning.

Madikeri:  Three wild elephants found dead in a coffee estate near Nagarhole Wildlife Sanctuary.

Kadaba: 11 members of Dalit community converted from Hinduism to Buddhism under the leadership of Anand Mittabail, taluka organisor of Dalit Sangharsha Samithi, in Alankari.

Sullia: A private school's pick-up van caught fire and wholly gutted at Karlapadi near Ajjavara here on Thursday morning.