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Maintaining that the Udupi college video issue was blown out of proportion, Karnataka Home Minister G Parameshwara Thursday asked why the National Commission for Women (NCW) had not rushed to Manipur after a video emerged from the strife-torn state. “Manipur incident is so….., I don’t know what to call it, and there the commission has not gone. Is this (Udupi) incident of that magnitude? Let them come. I am not a person to say why should you come? But you also see what did you find? Were there any videos of this incident or anything?” he told reporters. Meanwhile, actress and NCW member Khushbu Sundar on Thursday visited the paramedical college in Udupi where some girl students allegedly placed a camera in the washroom to shoot a video of a girl from another community. She is expected to meet thos

A teary-eyed Muniswami remembers his son Sharath Kumar leaving the house at 6 am last Sunday. “He gave his mother Rs 2,000 and told her to buy mutton. I thought he was heading to work but did not know he was going to the waterfalls. Now, he will never come back,” said Muniswami, 45, still coming to terms with the loss of Sharath, who was swept away after falling into Arishinagundi waterfalls in Karnataka’s Udupi district while recording Instagram reels on July 23. Sharath, 23, a BCom graduate and resident of Sunnada Halli post in Bhadravathi taluk of Shivamogga district, had come down to Arishinagun

The Udupi police in Karnataka have officially confirmed that a cabin crew member’s obsession towards his colleague has led to the November 12 quadruple murder of the 21-year-old Air India air hostess and her family. Praveen Arun Chougule, 39, was arrested on November 15 after tracking him down from a relative’s house in Kudachi in Belagavi. The Air India cabin crew member is accused of murdering his colleague Aynaz M, 21, her mother Haseena M, 47, an elder sister Afnan M N, 23, and brother Aseem M, 14, in the Nejaru village, Udupi.

A renowned theatre-artist couple in Karnataka’s Udupi district allegedly died by suicide hours after their adopted minor daughter went missing from their home Tuesday. Leeladhar Shetty, 68, and his wife Vasundhara Shetty, 59, residents of the Kaup taluk, left behind a suicide note, but they did not mention the reason behind their decision to end their lives, said the police. The Shettys adopted their daughter 16 years ago and lived with her in Majoor village. The police said they suspect she had eloped with a man who was employed by the couple