Two youth who have been to Sita river at Avarse for swimming drowned in the river on Thursday afternoon.

A moving car got fire on the main road at Jyothi in the city on Thursday and damaged partially.

Three children of a same family from Mangaluru who have been to Goa to visit a temple drowned in a temple pond near Ponda on Wednesday evening. The victims were identified as Adithi Bhat (12), Bhuvaneshwar Bhat (8) and Shravana Balakrishna Holla (7).

In spite of resort politics, former minister and MLA UT Khader reached Mangaluru on Wednesday night from Eagleton Resort of Bengaluru where Congress MLA's are camping.

An old building of the local police station which is being used as the Home Guards office, was damaged due to a mysterious explosion inside the building here on Wednesday evening.

Hawwa Binthi Aboobakar , wife of Late K.A Muhammad Soofi Banakal passed away on Wednesday evening at her son's house in Kaikamba, Mangaluru. She was 77.

Mangaluru North Constituency defeated candidate from Congress Moideen Bava said that when voting was observed, as expected the Congress should have got the votes in some polling booths. But during the counting of votes, the result disappointed the Congress, he said.

Moodbidre constituency defeated candidate Abhaychandra Jain admitted that the factors like Modi and Hindutva campaign have worked out in Dakshina Kannada and Udupi districts in this election.