Coastal Districts

Mangaluru/ Bengaluru, July 25: The Indian Meteorological department on Tuesday issued an orange alert for all the coastal districts and Malnad region in Karnataka, predicting heavy rains in the next 24 hours.

Mangaluru/Udupi, July 24: Heavy rain in the coastal of Udupi claimed 3 more lives, as of July 24 prompting the district administrations of twin districts of Udupi and Dakshina Kannada to declare holiday for schools on PU colleges on July 25.

Mangaluru, Aug 24: As heavy rains continued to lash different parts of the twin districts of Dakshina Kannada and Udupi, water-level in many rivers in the region kept rising in the last two days submerging low-lying areas.

Mangaluru, July 24: The coastal belt of Karnataka including Dakshina Kannada has been receiving heavy rainfall for past few days with rivers overflowing and many areas flooded.

Mangaluru, July 22: BJP Karnataka State President and Dakshina Kannada MP Nalin Kumar Kateel has urged the Union Railway Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw to name the popular trains of the city after eminent personalities and places of coastal Karnataka.

Mangaluru, July 22: The Karnataka state unit of Congress has decided to launch protests at block and district levels with the slogan ‘BJP hatao, beti bachao’ to condemn the incident of tribal women being paraded naked by BJP supporters in Manipur.

Mangaluru, July 22: In a fresh case of communal vigilantism, a boy student of a private medical college here was assaulted by a gang of youths after following him on motorcycles.

Mangaluru, July 22: D Vedavyas Kamath, MLA, Mangaluru City South, has accused the Karnataka home minister G Parameshwara of targeting Hindutva activists through the newly set up anti-communal wing.

Mangaluru, July 21: The Mangaluru city crime branch (CCB) police on Friday arrested three drug peddlers and seized MDMA and a pistol from their possession.

Mangaluru, July 20: Police have seized 100 kilograms of chocolates laced with narcotic drugs from two shops in the city, police said on Thursday.