Coastal Districts

Mangaluru, Dec 7: Dakshina Kannada district administration has geared up to hold elections for 220 out of the 228 gram panchayats in two phases.

Mangaluru, Dec 7: Memorial dedicated to Saxophone maestro late Kadri Gopalnath at his birthplace in Bantwal was thrown open to the public.

Mangaluru, Dec 6: Railways has decided to reintroduce Bengaluru-Mangaluru Central-Bengaluru four-days a week special express via Kunigal for a limited period.

Mangaluru, Dec 5: The Mangaluru City police have cracked the sensational pro- terror graffiti case with the arrest of two people. City police commissioner Vikash Kumar Vikash told reporters on Saturday, that two people who had written pro- terror graffiti on the wall of a building in the East police station limits and on a wall in the North police station limits have been identified as Mohammed Shariq, 22 and Mazz Muneer Ahmed, aka, Mazz, aka Muneer, 21, a third-year engineering student studying in the City and working for an online food delivery company for the past one and a half month. Both hail from Thirthahalli and are known to each other. Shariq was working as a salesperson at a cloth store owned by his father in Thirthahalli. Mazz Muneer lived in an apartment on Arya Samaj Road.

Mangaluru, Dec 5: An academician from coastal Karnataka who is currently working in United Arab Emirates, has been named among the top 2 percent scientists in the world according to the subject-wise analysis conducted by the Standford University, USA.

Mangaluru, Dec 5: Almost a year after the ill-famous Mangaluru police firing, which claimed lives of two Muslim civilians, the report of the magisterial inquiry into the incident has been submitted to the Sate Home Department.

Mangaluru, Dec 5: City police chief Vikash Kumar Vikash has rubbished the media reports on arrest of suspect in connection with the provocative graffiti case.

Mangaluru, Dec 5: A teenage boy, who was critically injured after being hit by a car while crossing the road yesterday, breathed his last at a private hospital in the city today.

15-year-old Indian-American Gitanjali Rao, a "brilliant" young scientist and inventor, has been named by TIME magazine as the first-ever 'Kid of the Year' for her "astonishing work" using technology to tackle issues ranging from contaminated drinking water to opioid addiction and cyberbullying.

Mangaluru, Dec 5: Former city mayor K. Krishnappa Mendon (75) passed away early morning on Friday, December 04, 2020. He was the founder of Prema Auto Distributors, a wholesale distribution agency for automobile spare parts situated at Attavar in the city.