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
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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
Mangaluru, Dec 5: Traffic on the busy National Highway 66 was disrupted at Panambur on the outskirts of the city on Thursday after city bus rammed into a KSRTC Volvo bus off the KIOCL Ltd bus stop. At least two passengers sustained injuries in the accident. The city bus was plying to Jokatte from state bank bus terminus while the Volvo was heading to Manipal. The accident took place in the haste
Mangaluru, Dec 5: An operator noticed a leakage in the LPG pipeline connecting the 650 metric tonne LPG storage sphere bottom to the Remote Operated Valve (ROV), at the Bharat Petroleum Corporation Limited (BPCL) LPG bottling plant at Baikampady Industrial area in Mangaluru on Thursday at around 11.20 am. Immediately the emergency siren was blown, which was followed by the fire extinguishing
Mangaluru, Dec 4: Eight associates of underworld operative Vikki Shetty have been arrested by the Central Crime Branch police near the Tannirbhavi beach, here on Wednesday. The arrested are Manoj Kumar (28), Raghavendra (30), Santosh Poojary (33), Bharatesh (30), Naveen (26), Sandhesh (29), Chetan (27) and Varneet Shetty (30). The arrests were made after the police raided a place near GMR
Mangaluru, Dec 4: A team of doctors from Indiana Hospital have performed a rare surgery successfully on a 74-old-man on November 20. Addressing media persons at Indiana Hospital in Mangaluru, Chief Interventional cardiologist Dr Yusuf Kumble who led the team of surgeons, said that N Rajaram Rao, a 74-year-old man from Moodbidri suffered from abdominal pain since few months. He was diagnosed with
Mangaluru, Dec 4: In a peculiar incident, the driver of a transport lorry has gone absconding with a cargo of Rs 44.14 lakhs worth of areca produce from the city's port. The absconding lorry driver has been identified as Mohanlal Raj Ghor. It is learnt that the manager of Naranji Peraj Transport company Mahendrabai Lal Vador had given instructions to the lorry driver Mohanlal to transport the
Manglauru, Dec 4: The officers of customs at Mangaluru International Airport have seized more than one kilo gram gold worth nearly Rs 28 lakh smuggled from Dubai. The accused identified as Abdul Gaffoor Kadappuram (44) son of Ahamed Kunhi Kaddappuram, a resident of Kanhangad in Kasaragod district was nabbed by the authorities. He reached the Airport on Wednesday at 8:10 a.m. by Jet Airways flight