Mangaluru: The fourth additional district and sessions court has convicted a youth from Belthangady taluk, for killing his father a year ago. Judge B R Pallavi held Harish Poojari,28, a resident of Mudyottu in Gardadi village of Belthangady, to be guilty for killing his father Shridhara Poojari,56, on January 18, 2021. A case in this […]

Belthangady : Unidentified miscreants have hurled beer bottle at the Mura Jumma Masjid in Belthangady taluk late night. The incident is learnt to have taken place late night on February 23, Wednesday. The pieces of the beer bottle had also fallen on a car parked in the masjid compound. The incident has been captured on […]

Mangaluru : Dakshina Kannada police has arrested a man on the charge of sexually assaulting a four- year old girl in Belthangady taluk. The accused has been identified as Vighnesh Bhandari from Kakkinje Kutharigudde in Belthangady,. The victim’s father had lodged a complaint with the Dharmasthala police alleging that the accused had taken the girl […]

Belthangady : A person, presumed dead, found alive 10 days after his final rites were conducted by his family at Gardadi in Belthangady taluk recently. Srinivas Devadiga (60) had gone missing from his house on January 26. A missing case was registered at Belthangady police station. A body was found in a lake at Kullunje […]

Mangaluru: A bridge connecting to the Belthangady-Karkala Road collapsed near the Western Ghats and Kudremukh National Park  on Wednesday, May 27. The residents of the hamlet fear that with the advent of the monsoon soon they might be marooned without any alternative mode of connectivity. The bridge was inspected by officials from the district administration who […]

Mangaluru: Results of APMC elections held on Thursday has been announced on Saturday. In Mangaluru taluk the results has been tied and out of 12 seats Congress and BJP both has managed to bag 3 seats each. In Belthangady Taluk Congress has registered victory by winning 9 seats while BJP could get only 5 seats. […]

Mangaluru : Writer K.S. Bhagwan and K.S. Shivaramu, State president of the Karnataka Rajya Hindulida Vargagala Jagrutha Vedike, have urged the government to arrest Gopalakrishna Gowda, the prime accused in a recent attack on Sundara Malekudiya belonging to a Scheduled Tribe community at Kattaje, a village in Belthangady taluk, recently. Addressing a press conference here, […]

Mangalore : A tensed situation prevailed followed by a triggered controversy after the school run by a Catholic institution distributed uniforms to students bearing religious symbols in Belthangady Taluk of Dakshina Kannada district. The incident took place after parents of few students from Hindus and Muslim religion staged a demonstration condemning the decision of school […]

Mangalore : Deputy Commissioner (DC) A.B. Ibrahim would visit Neriya village in Belthangady taluk to check the suitability of the alternative land suggested by the villagers to set up an intermediate pumping station for the Mangalore-Bangalore Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG) pipeline being implemented by the Hindustan Petroleum Corporation Ltd., (HPCL). Chairing a meeting of residents […]

Belthangady : DC A.B. Ibrahim took a surprise visit to the Malekudiya tribe in Banjarumale in Neriya village of Belthangady taluk on the Western Ghats on Thursday. After the three-decade’ wait of the villagers about 40 families came to an end with DC A.B. Ibrahim inaugurating the DC Katte. The Katte was built about 32 […]