Manjeshwar: All India Sunni Jamyatul Ulama General Secretary Kantapuram AP Abubakar Musliyar visited the residence of senior politician and Muslim League leader Cherkalam Abdullah who passed away today morning and paid his last respects.

Vitla police on Thursday night arrested two persons, including a Bajrang Dal activist, for allegedly transporting animals illegally to a slaughterhouse in Kerala.

Senior politician and former minister Cherkalam Abdullah, 76, passed away at his home on Friday morning.

Cherkalam Abdullah, who was admitted to a private hospital in Mangaluru for the last few days, was brought to the home late yesterday night as per doctors’ opinion. He breathed his last at his residence at 8:20 am today.

The timely action of social workers and social media helped a retired executive engineer who was missing from Tirupati, reunited with his family members at Yedapadavu.

Puttur police arrested an accused who was absconding for the last 44 years in a sandalwood smuggling case. The arrested accused was identified as Abbas.

Following threats in social media against Esha Vittala Dasa Swamiji of Kemaru Mutt for demanding probe into the suspicious death of Shiroor mutt swamiji, Krishna Poojary, a disciple of the swamiji booked a case at the Moodbidri police station here on Thursday demanding legal action against those who threaten the swamiji.

A Mangaluru-based youth who came to the city for a tour along with his friends slipped into the Bhadra River and washed away at Ambathirtha in Kalasa police station limits on Thursday.

The dead body of the student who had gone missing from Bengaluru has been found in Guruvayanakere on Thursday morning.