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Udupi, Dec 6: Thirteen-year-old Eshika Shetty, who had gone missing from the Sharada Residential School, Kunjibettu, here, on November 15, has finally been found in Mumbai. Assistant Superintendent of Police K. Annamalai said that a team from Udupi had stayed for the past 20 days in Mumbai to trace her. The girl has been found at an observation home near the Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus in Mumbai

Mangaluru, Dec 6: District-in-Charge Minister B Ramanath Rai on Friday released the logo of the Panambur beach festival scheduled to start on December 20. The eleven-day-long beach festival will include food festival, and traditional cultural programmes by the cultural troupes of Kala Mandalam in Kerala and Gujarat. Mr Raid said that the organisers are trying to get permission for holding a cruise

Bengaluru, Dec 6: Ramachandrapura Mutt pontiff Raghaveshwara Bharathi, accused of raping a singer of a Ramakatha dance drama troupe, on Friday underwent medical examinations at the Nephro-Urology department in Victoria Hospital in the City. The seer, who had on Thursday sought a week's time to take the tests, however, appeared at the hospital around 8 am on Friday. The Criminal Investigation

Mangaluru, Dec 5: Minister for Health and Family Welfare U T Khader has said that a full-fledged dialysis centre will come up at Wenlock Hospital in the near future. Speaking at the inauguration of seven new facilities at Wenlock Hospital here on Friday, he said that at present, there are eight dialysis machines in the hospital. Additional machines will be installed in the future. One taluk in all

Mangaluru, Dec 5: On charges of defaming the Dharmadhikari of Dharmasthala Dr Veerendra Heggade, the presiding deity Manjunatha Swamy and the Dharmasthala Kshetra, the third JMFC court on Thursday sentenced founder-editor of evening daily Karavali Ale B V Seetaram, his wife and owner of the publication S Rohini and then editor B S Shivaprasad to 30 months of punishment in connection with five

Mangaluru, Dec 5: With great zeal and competitive fervour, the national-level intercollegiate fest Vittoria 2014' for graduate students hosted by St Agnes College (Autonomous), Mangalore kicked off at the college campus here on Friday. A colourful start marked the beginning of the inaugural programme of the two-day fest which captivated students and guests alike. The event commenced with an

Kundapur, Dec 5: Protest and counter-protests following last week's arson attack on a commercial complex belonging to a Masjid have kept communal tensions alive in Gangolli town of Kundapur taluk in Udupi district. Despite the claims of police that situation is completely under control the provocative slogans raised at a massive protest organized by Hindu Jagarana Vedike and other BJP-backed

Kasaragod, Dec 5: Nearly two dozens of families were evacuated from their homes at Shriya village near Kumble in Kasargod district after a bullet tanker carrying liquefied petroleum gas overturned and plunged off National Highway 17. The mishap also led to major traffic disruption between Mangaluru and Kasaragod. The mishap occurred when the driver of the tanker heading towards Kozhikode from

Bengaluru, Dec 5: The Central Crime Branch (CCB) police on Thursday busted an international multi-level marketing (MLM) racket here and arrested four people, including New Zealand national Denise D. Fifty-two-year-old Denise was the mastermind behind the online racket and is believed to have collected Rs 50 crore from unsu­specting individuals. The other suspects are Kurram (44), Kiran Modi (39)

Madikeri, Dec 5: Four prominent BJP leaders in Kodagu may soon entre rowdy sheet thanks to their involvement attack on District Conservator of Forest Shivshankar. Kodagu Disttrict Superintendent of Police Vartika Katiyar told media persons here on Thursday that the police department was contemplating on adding five accused in the case, including four BJP leaders, into the rowdy sheet. The five