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While five accused were acting suspiciously in a car with the label of ‘Director, National Crime Investigation Bureau’, three others were picked from a lodge by Mangaluru City police.
An annual high tea is organised by Rashtrapati Bhavan to commemorate the Quit India movement, but Shyama Rao did not receive a much-awaited invite this year.
Officials said that on receiving information about the octogenarian leader’s whereabouts, a team of was sent to lead Poojary and his family to safety.
Many have taken to social media to criticise the Chief Minister for continuing to sit inside his car while the police were taking action against protesters.
The two other victims include a woman who was milking a cow when the wall of the shed crashed down on her and a 23-year-old sand miner in Udupi and Dakshina Kannada districts.
Nimmy Stephen Kulakkattu, a 22-year-old nurse, said that she was “just doing my duty.”
Confirming all the new regulations but the restriction on male-female interaction, college authorities told TNM that the rules were for students’ welfare.
Around 400 cases of dengue have been recorded from the district as of Friday, with more than half of the cases being reported from Mangaluru.
All these measures are in the interest of keeping in mind the students’ welfare.
The three-part video became viral which shows the alleged accused Ansari, having unnatural sex with a cow and also some other three people interrogating him at the spot.
Udupi police recovered the lifeless body of the infant wedged onto a low-lying tree branch over the Kubja river on Friday.
Her attacker has been admitted to psychiatry ward of KS Hegde hospital and has been diagnosed with depression, say doctors.
“Nothing came to my mind when I saw the guy with the knife,” she says. “I just stretched out my hand.”
The man then tried to attack himself with the same knife. Both are undergoing treatment at a local hospital and Shraddha’s condition is said to be serious.
Police have begun the search for an unidentified person accused of luring stray dogs with food that was allegedly poisoned.
Being surrounded by forest, drawing power lines here was prohibited and so the Malekudiya tribal colony near Mangaluru had an unreliable supply of electricity.
According to a relative, the 24 year old acted on the behest of a astrologer who predicted the baby will bring him misfortune.
In the video, Deekshit can be heard complaining that the hospital was apathetic to his friend, who is on a stretcher after a bike accident, and was waiting for an ambulance for further care.
Based on the mechanism of the bike, 60-year-old Ganapathi has been developing the machine over the last two years.
Two years ago, the police had lodged a case of sexual harassment against the suspect, 60-year-old Jagadish Machimada, and the case was being heard at a local court.
Fishermen, tourists have been warned to not venture into the sea.
The situation has worsened this year due to a stand-off between the Karnataka and Maharashtra governments over releasing water to fill up the tanks in the Krishna basin in Karnataka.
Officials said the duo fraudulently generated Input Tax Credit from business firms and entities without obtaining any goods in reality, saving up to Rs 15 crore.
According to the police, the victim, Anjana Vasista, refused to marry Sandeep Rathod, which led to an argument between the two.
The two frogs were named Varun and Varsha and were taken in a procession before they were wed at a hotel.
A male companion Sandeep, who lived-in with the 22-year-old woman, is now absconding and is the prime suspect in the case.
While some schools have postponed the re-opening, others are cutting down on class hours.
Police arrested the man on Thursday, three days after he allegedly killed his daughter.
The app-based and online portal, SandBazaar, launched about a month ago and has listed over 100 licensed sand miners alongside the tariff chart and their modes of operation.
The alleged threat was made after BJP candidate Nalin Kumar Kateel won from Dakshina Kannada constituency in the Lok Sabha Elections.
With only two inches of water left at the mouth of the Mahadayi river, residents of Belagavi, Gadag, Bagalkote and Dharwad districts wait desperately for the monsoon.
Although the Indian Navy found the wreckage of Suvarna Tribhuja, the fishing boat that disappeared five months ago, the seven fishermen on board are still missing.
The two-bedroom houses, spread across 4.8 acres, have been distributed to families whose houses were completely damaged or destroyed in the landslides.
Shreemathi Shetty was allegedly murdered by Jonas Samson and Victoria Mathias, and her body parts stuffed in a gunny bag and placed in three different areas in the city.
Videos shared widely on social media showed the mob assaulting the victim and forcibly cutting his hair with a sickle.
Forest officials hope that this will go a long way in reducing the human-animal conflict in Kodagu.
Landowners with up to 20 cents of land in non-vulnerable areas of the district can convert land for building individual houses.
The decision is among several steps taken by the district administration in the aftermath of the floods and landslides in Kodagu last year.
K9 Resto Café also has a grooming centre, massage parlour and a day-care facility for animals.
They have distributed close to 6,000 pads since the group’s inception.
The police suspect that the motive could be a tussle over trespassing.
The Mathigodu camp’s mahouts, who had tried to revive the elephant, allege that timely medical intervention could have saved Drona’s life.
Dr Smitha Hegde, an expert in the study of ferns, has documented more than one thousand trees with her students so far.
The villagers refrained from voting to register their protest against the Forest Department for hindering development works in their villages.
Belagavi is going to polls with 8,256 ballot units, 2,054 polling booths, 17,49,005 voters, and 57 candidates.
Tauseef Ahmed had tagged about 400 dogs with reflective collars to prevent collisions with drivers of fast-moving vehicles.
The constituency has been a sensitive one, vulnerable to violence and rowdyism, and parts of it — especially Mangalore city commissionerate limits have been identified as critical.
Kateel was elected to the Lok Sabha for the first time in 2009, upon defeating Congress representative Janardhan Poojary by 40,420 votes.
The mobile phone of Devendrappa, who runs a roadside puncture repair shop at Kottur in
The incident comes less than a week after an elephant was shot dead by unknown assailants in the same area.