January 10,2013: The Mangalore City Corporation has launched a new SMS complaint service on solid waste management. A demonstration cum briefing in this regard was held at the MCC office on January 10, Thursday.
A truck laden with as many as 61 new motorbikes to be supplied to a dealer in Calicut, overturned at Kottara Cross on January 9, Wednesday at around 10 pm. However, the driver as well as the cleaner of the truck escaped unhurt in the mishap.
Eshwaramangala police have arrested three persons at Sulliapadavu in Kerala-Karnataka border on January 9, Wednesday, who were caught by public while they were trying to escape after making a vain bid to outrage the modesty of a woman.
A cash of Rs 8 lakh which was kept in the dashboard of a Swift car which was parked in front of a restaurant near Kulur bus stop on the afternoon of January 9, Wednesday, has been stolen.
Secretary of Kota Block Congress Vasudeva Adiga of Vandar in Udupi taluk who went mysteriously missing on January 7 Monday while on way home, and is suspected to have been kidnapped, has not yet been traced.
The Karnataka High Court has on January 9, Wednesday disposed of a Public Interest Litigation seeking the appointment of a Special Investigation Team to probe into the case of the hate speech delivered by RSS leader Kalladka Prabhaker Bhat at Uppinangady in January last year.
Mangalore University Vice Chancellor Prof. TC Shivashankera Murthy has expressed his concern over the rising violence against women and stressed the need for stringent laws to check the same.
On January 9, Wednesday, the autorickshaw drivers of Suratkal area came together and paraded a fellow driver who had allegedly molested a minor girl.
“It has been two months since Sowjanya was raped and murdered and all that the police have done so far is to arrest a mentally ill man.
Sandesha Foundation for Culture and Education (R) Mangalore will confer ‘Sandesha Awards 2013’ on nine achievers at Sandesha Premises on Jan 27, Sunday at 5.30.
Thirteen people including a few children sustained injuries when the tourist bus in which they were on an excursion overturned near Maroor Guddalangadi on January 8, Tuesday. The bus was carrying students and teachers from a school in Mandya.
Her name Gangamma. Age around 85. She is from Puttur, issueless and was under the care of a relative at Bangalore ever since her husband’s death. She boarded a bus to Mangalore on the morning of January 4, after her caretakers said it is better she find an old age home for stay.
A leopard which fell into a trap laid for a boar at Guttigar, has been rescued by officials of the Forest Department and Pilikula Nisargadhama on January 8, Tuesday.
District Regional Transport Officer Mallikarjuna has said that early steps would be taken to introduce additional private or government buses on the Mudipu route and nearby areas which are facing shortage of bus services.
Deputy Commissioner N Prakash has informed that National Youth Day and “Yuvajanotsav Camp” will be held at Ramakrishna Mutt in Mangalore from January 11 to 17, in association