Urban Development and Housing Minister UT Khader along with Thokkottu Help India Foundation members celebrated their Bakrid festival with the mentally challenged inmates of Ullal Someshwara East Rehab Centre meaningfully on Wednesday.

Around 40 passengers sustained injuries when the bus they were travelling in hit a house after the driver lost control over the vehicle at Rajapuram near here on Wednesday.

The Aradhanotsav of Lakshmivara Theertha Swamiji of Shiroor Mutt would be held at Shiroor Moola Mutt at Hiriyadka on August 25.

After homa, and other religious rituals, the priests would offer pooja to the Vrundavana. In the evening, Ranga pooja would be held for the presiding deity of the Shiroor Mutt. For the first time after the death of Shiroor seer, the general public are being allowed for this programme. In future, on every Saturday, devotees would be allowed to the Ranga pooja at the mutt, according Sodhe Mutt, the Dwandwa Mutt of the Shiroor Mutt.

An aged woman who has been to the well to lift the water slipped accidentally into it and drowned at Kattu near Hemmadi village in the taluk on Wednesday.

Vishwesha Teertha Swamiji of Pejawar Mutt on Wednesday announced Rs 10 lakh donation from the Pejawar Mutt Trust for taking up relief and rehabilitation measures in Kodagu and Sullia.

The disaster that shook the people of the district has now affected the marriages and festivals. The life was thrown out of gear in most part of the district. People are worried about their future as they have lost everything.

Mangaluru South Anti-Rowdy Squad police arrested five persons with drugs, two pistols and 22 rounds of bullets here on Tuesday.

Former deputy chief minister R Ashok said that the Bengaluru BJP unit has contributed around 15 loads of relief materials to the Kodagu flood victims and it was the duty of the Bengalureans.