POCSO case : Man gets 20 years jail and Rs 50,000 penalty

Wednesday, January 25th, 2023
Babi

Belthangady : A 48 year old man from Belthangady has been sentenced to 20 years imprisonment by the Additional Sessions Court in a case of raping a minor girl. The convict has also been slapped a penalty of Rs 50,000. The convict is Bobby. He was earlier charged with repeatedly raping the minor girl from […]

Pramod Muthalik to contest Assembly election from Karkala

Tuesday, January 24th, 2023
Pramod-Muthalik

Karkala : Sri Rama Sene chief Pramod Muthalik announced that he will contest the coming Assembly election from Karkala constituency as an independent candidate. Addressing presspersons in Udupi, Mr. Muthalik said that his contest is against “corrupt and anti-Hindu politicians.” Mr. Muthalik said that he was unhappy with the way Karkala MLA V. Sunil Kumar […]

POCSO case accused arrested at Indo-Nepal border

Tuesday, January 24th, 2023
Jithendra-Sharki

Udupi : A man who was an accused in a POCSO case registered in Manipal police station and was absconding since the past two years, has been arrested at the Indo-Nepal border. The arrested person is Jithendra Sharki (26). He had failed to appear before the court since the past two years despite being served […]

Eight passengers arrested over Rs 2 cr seized at MIA

Friday, January 20th, 2023
Gold

Mangaluru : Customs officials at the Mangaluru International Airport have seized 3,677 grams of gold worth Rs 2,01,69,800 in different cases between January 1 and 18. As many as eight passengers were detained in this connection on charges of smuggling gold. During this period, e-cigarettes with e-nicotine liquid worth Rs 3,20,265 were seized from a […]

Mangaluru drug case : 7 medical students and 2 doctors suspended

Friday, January 20th, 2023
N-Shashikumar

Mangaluru: In an drug case, 7 medical students and 2 doctors involved have been suspended. Mangaluru police commissioner N. shashi Kumar, on Friday, told media that the private medical college and hospital in the city where the accused were studying or working has suspended them. As many as 15 persons, including doctors and medical students, […]

Car driver was critically injured in bullet tanker accident

Thursday, January 19th, 2023
Bantwala Accident

Bantwal : Car driver was critically injured in a bullet tanker and a car accident at Surikumer junction on Thursday, January 19. The bullet tanker was on the way to Mangaluru and car headed for Mani. The car driver has been admitted to Tumbe hospital. The car was completely damaged in the impact. The Vittal […]

Congress leader K. Prathapchandra Shetty resigns from his KPCC post

Thursday, January 19th, 2023
prathapchandra-shetty

Kundapura : Former chairman of Karnataka Vidhan Parishad and Congress leader K. Prathapchandra Shetty resigned from his KPCC post on Wednesday, January 18. He sent a letter to this effect to the KPCC and a copy of it to the AICC. Pratap Chandra Shetty has confirmed that he has resigned from the membership of the […]

Rs 5 lakh cash reward announced for 2 PFI suspects information

Thursday, January 19th, 2023
Praveen Nettaru

Mangaluru: The National Investigation Agency (NIA) announced cash reward for those sharing information on two suspects in connection with the murder of BJP worker Praveen Nettaru at Bellare in Dakshina Kannada district. Praveen was hacked to death by assailants on July 26. The NIA, which is investigating the case, through a poster announced Rs 5 […]

Sexual assault and forced abortion of a minor girl, prime accused arrested

Wednesday, January 18th, 2023
Sudhir

Belthangady : The prime accused in the case related to the sexual assault and forced abortion of a minor girl at Kadirudyavara has been arrested. The accused Sudhir (25) had been absconding ever since the case came to light. He is accused of sexually assaulting the minor girl as well as forcefully aborting the fetus […]

Multi-storied housing project to come up in Shaktinagar

Wednesday, January 18th, 2023
vedavyas

Mangaluru : D. Vedavyas Kamath, Mangaluru City South MLA, on Tuesday said the long pending construction of the multi-storied housing project in Shaktinagar will start this February as the Union Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change has issued a no-objection certificate to utilise deemed forestland for housing purposes. During the ‘Meet the Press’ programme […]