Mangalore

Mangaluru: The bifurcation of Mangalore University has left several guest faculty and contractual staff, who were earlier part of MU and are now under Kodagu University, facing hardship. Dozens of them, recruited by MU, have not been paid for months and are now demanding their pending salaries.According to contractual staff and guest faculty of undergraduate…

Mangaluru: Dakshina Kannada police are monitoring online activity as social media is flooded with posts and videos on the Special Investigation Team‘s (SIT) probe into the alleged Dharmasthala mass burial case.Meanwhile, activists Mahesh Shetty Thimmarody, Girish Mattannavar, and Puneeth Kerehalli have been booked based on complaints of provocative content.According to the complaint filed by Charan…

Mangaluru: A man died after his scooter collided with a parked container truck in Balmatta on Thursday. The deceased is Melory Shawn D’Souza,24. Police said the accident occurred while he was riding his scooter from Balmatta towards Hampankatta, allegedly in a negligent manner.On Balmatta Road, D’Souza reportedly crashed into the rear of a container truck…

Mangaluru: The Dakshina Kannada excise department has been selling nearly 40,000 fewer liquor boxes each month since April.Sources said that Dakshina Kannada has a total target of two lakh boxes of Indian Made Foreign Liquor. However, every month nearly 20% to 25% of the target is not met. The major reasons for poor sales is…

Mangaluru: A 41-year-old woman accused the owners of a unisex salon of forcing her to massage men. The woman, accompanied by Karnataka State Backward Classes Commission member Prathibha Kulai, told reporters on Friday that she joined the salon as a beautician about 45 days ago.The woman alleged that she was forced to massage male clients,…

Mangaluru: A police outpost was proposed at Wenlock District Hospital in the city. Chairing a meeting of the Arogya Raksha Samitis of the Wenlock and Lady Goschen hospitals in Bengaluru on Friday, minister for health and family welfare Dinesh Gundu Rao said the proposal should be discussed with the commissioner of Mangaluru City police to…

Mangaluru: The Special Investigation Team (SIT) probing the alleged Dharmasthala mass burial case on Friday conducted a search operation at a location near the forest area in Boliyar, along the Dharmasthala-Subrahmanya road, as part of the exhumation process. It was speculated that the team might examine Site No. 13 during the operation. The site was…

Mangaluru: Dakshina Kannada BJP president Sathish Kumpala said that if district minister Dinesh Gundu Rao has indeed stated that the Special Investigation Team (SIT) was formed to probe the alleged Dharmasthala mass burial case under pressure from leftist groups, it raises serious suspicion.Kumpala also raised suspicion over Social Democratic Party of India (SDPI) showing interest…

Mangaluru: A senior citizen died in an accident in Kadaba on Thursday, after a jeep allegedly overturned and fell on him due to negligence. The deceased was identified as Dharmapala,68.The incident occurred near the house of the complainant, Nagesh, a resident of Bilinele in Kadaba. According to the complaint, Dinesh, the son of the complainant’s…