A PUCL team has prepared a fact-finding report regarding the recent incident in Kannur wherein a few police personnel had forced a tempo driver cum owner to consume liquor while taking him to the hospital, after the police vehicle hit the person who was walking on the roadside.
The Akhila Karnataka Shikshakara Kalyana Parishat has urged the district in-charge minister to have a person from Tulunad as the Vice Chancellor of Mangalore University.
Gopal Hosur, in-charge Commissioner of Mangalore Police Commissionerate and Western Range IGP has said that the Police Commissioner would henceforth be vested with the magisterial powers otherwise exercised by the Deputy Commissioner or the Tahsildar, in the newly constituted Mangalore Police Commissionerate.
A complaint has been lodged against Arun Kumar Puttila, a Rama Sene leader and the former managing committee president of Mrityunjeshwara Temple in Puttur accusing him of illegal possession of the temple assets.
The Nalku Veethi Nivasigala Vedike of Udupi staged a huge protest in front of the Deputy commissioner’s office on Saturday opposing the’ unilateral’ decision of the district administration in deciding to make Carstreet as a no-traffic zone. The traders in Carstreet too joined the protest by downing their shutters.
A female cub of a cheetah, that was separated from its mother, created panic in the town for quite some time on Saturday after it was spotted in a field near the Savira kamba Basadi.
Tension prevailed in Ullal on Sunday after miscreants stoned two mosques and a yatimkhana in Kumpala village of Ullal police station limits in the wee hours of Sunday. The window panes and glasses of the mosque have been damaged in the incident.
The famous Matysatheertha Lake at Todikana near here is today crying for attention with hundreds of fish in this lake perishing for want of water every year. What has been noticed is that the lake was drying up every year affecting the fish.
The State High Court has cancelled the government order dissolving he DK District Child Welfare Committee, which had been doing a commendable job by putting a brake to child trafficking and the practice of child labour at several places.
The State High Court has served a notice to the Union as well as the State government with regard to acquisition of land at Nandikur and Ellur for laying a railway track and constructing a yard to facilitate coal transportation to the thermal power plant of the Udupi Power Corporation Ltd at Padubidri.