Moodbidri : A bakery businessman reportedly ended his life by consuming poison on April 5, Tuesday at Moodukonaje near. The deceased is Roshan R Suvarna. He was the partner of a bakery named Abbakka which was inaugurated in Moodbidri on Ugadi day on April 2. Film star Vijaya Raghavendra had inaugurated the new outlet. On Tuesday, Roshan […]

Belthangady : A young woman who had reportedly attempted suicide by consuming poison ten days ago and was admitted to a private hospital in Mangaluru has died on the night of March 23, Tuesday. The deceased has been identified as Vincy (20), daughter of Viju, a resident of Gandibagilu Devagiri Chenapalli. Vincy was a final […]

Belthangady : Days after eight students of a government school in Belthangady were hospitalized after drinking suspected poisoned water drawn from the school well, villagers of Shibaje gram panchayat allayed fears of poisoning of water in the local tank. On Friday morning, Narayana Poojary, pump operator found a strange odor emanating from the tank water […]

Kundapur: The Kundapur court remanded Shankaranarayana Hebbar to judicial custody for poisoning his wife and children on October 17 at their residence in Byndoor. It is said that he took the extreme step after his family objected to his extra-marital affair. Hebbar’s children Ashwin Kumar and Aishwarya Laxmi had already succumbed to the effects of […]

Kundapur: Four people from one family attempted suicide by consuming poison and as a result of it two children breathed their last, on Monday at Ganganadu near Byndoor. Ashwin Kumar (16) and Aishwarya Hebbar (14) are the deceased children. Shankaranarayana (45) and his wife Mahalakshmi (39) and their children Ashwin and Aishwarya consumed poison. Shankaranarayana […]

Mangaluru: “Due to the rapid development in science and commercialisation we are consuming poison every day. We are inviting diseases like Diabetes and other at the initial stage of our life only,” said Mysusr’s food and agricultural Homeo expert Dr A Khader. He was speaking in a programme at Mangaluru Town Hall organised by Savayava […]

New Delhi: The post-mortem report of Minister of State for Human Resource Development Shashi Tharoor’s wife Sunanda Pushkar has cited drug overdose as the cause of her death, sources said on Monday. The sources, citing the report said that her death was due to overdose of medicines and that a police team led by the […]

Puttur : Balasubrahmanya Bhat (48) and his wife Hemavathi (40) hailing from Mura in Kabaka of Puttur have reportedly committed suicide by consuming poison on October 5, Saturday.. The police have arrested a neighbor Jinnappa Poojari for allegedly torturing the couple and forcing them to take the extreme step. Hemavathi has left behind a death […]

Chikkaballapura: A Border Security Force Jawan died after he was allegedly administered poison by his wife in Chikkaballapura district, police said on Friday.  The deceased was identified as Venkatesh (36), working at the BSF base in Yelahanka. Venkatesh allegedly had extra-marital affairs and used to threaten his 35-year-old wife, Shanthamma, whose first husband was a […]

Mangalore: A body of an unidentified man was found in Kadri Park on September 26, Sunday. The police think that the man might have either died of disease or by consuming poison. According to the sources, the man was lying under a tree, crying out with pain at 10:15 a.m. while one of the passer […]