Mangaluru : DySP of traffic and crime department Uma Prashanth, has been promoted as superintendent of police (SP) of Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB). Uma Prashanth has earlier worked on different designations at Bengaluru, Kunigal, and as Karwar deputy commissioner of police. In the backdrop of the upcoming Lok Sabha elections, several top officials are being transferred.

Mangaluru: Education is not meant to gain just knowledge but is also meant to help an individual to learn life skills, DCP (Crime and Traffic) Uma Prashanth said. She was delivering a talk at the Women in Technology summit, organised by IEEE Computer Society at NITK in Surathkal on Friday. “Education is of no use […]

Mangaluru: Police Commissioner T.R. Suresh on Friday said that police will not allow fish transporting vehicles to operate on city roads if they are not fitted with waste water collection tanks and seize them if they are found spilling waste water while in motion. He was responding to complaints of waste water menace from fish […]

Mangaluru: Dakshina Kannada district administration will come out with an integrated transport app to provide an interface for the public to air their grievances, submit feedback and suggestions on improving transport system in the district, Deputy Commissioner Sasikanth Senthil said. He was speaking at the road safety meeting organised as a part of RTA meeting […]

Mangaluru: in accordance with the instructions issued by the city police commissioner, the city police conducted a drive against cars with tinted windshields and removed such films from 20 cars on Tuesday November 13th. Acting under the supervision of the city traffic assistant police commissioner, a police team conducted this special operation by identifying erring […]

Mangaluru: Considering the several complaints by the public regarding the inconveniences caused due to the parking of luxury long distance buses on roadsides near Milagres and other places in the city, the Police Commissioner T R Suresh has banned entry of such buses into the city from 8 am to 8 pm. The Commissioner was […]

Mangaluru: All establishments, including educational institutions, commercial buildings, industries, hospitals, religious places and bus stands with a crowd density of more than 100 people or 500 visitors per day should install CCTV cameras, as under the recent amendments to Karnataka Public Safety (Measures) Act, DCP (Crime and Traffic) Uma Prashanth said. “The Traffic Department will […]

Mangaluru: At least 55 boards were seized by police and notices were issued to the building owners. The traffic police on October 17, Wednesday, initiated a drive against “No parking boards” placed in front of commercial complexes and apartments in Mangaluru. Residents of Mangaluru city are facing acute parking problems in the central areas of […]

Mangaluru: A 19-year-old youth posing as a woman was arrested by the Urwa police on Tuesday on charges of blackmail and extortion. The youth, Aditya alias Ashwini alias Aradhya of Subedarpalya in Yeshwantapur befriended people on social media, coerce them to share their pictures and later used to blackmail them with the same pictures. A […]

Mangaluru : Surathkal police nabbed two people who had robbed a bag containing jewellery from a woman who had gone for a stroll on a beach at Mukka on August 26. The woman had come to her relatives’ house at Chokkabettu in Surathkal. She had gone to the beach, and on her way back, she […]