Man under observation for COVID-19 goes missing, traced home

A person who arrived at the airport in Karnataka from Dubai and was hospitalised with suspected symptoms of coronavirus went missing but was later traced to his home, sources said. The man, who......

'We are praying we do not fill the beds'

'We are hoping the preparations we have made will not be needed.' IMAGE: The Mangaluru city police conducted a honour convoy on Wednesday, April 22, 2020 to salute the doctors, nurses and medical......

Grieving relatives throng Mangalore hospitals

Hospitals in Mangalore on Sunday struggled to cope with scores of grieving family members who turned up to collect the bodies of their loved ones. Touching scenes of grief and disbelief were......

Phones, watches helped identify crash victims

When Karnataka Home Minister V S Acharaya called Dr Mohandas K Bhandary, president of the Mangalore chapter of the Indian Medical Association, on Saturday morning, Dr Bhandary had not yet got news......

London Olympics mascots: menacing or magic?

Sinister. Disturbing. Creepy. Frightening. The official mascots of London's Olympic and Paralympic Games — Wenlock and Mandeville — have been called all of those things, but organizers......

Crowd-puller Beckham to lead Britain's Oly team

Olympic Association have made David Beckham Britain's Olympic football captain to help sell 1.5 million unsold tickets for the 2012 London Games. The organization hopes to pull more spectators to......

London Olympics mascots: Neither cuddly nor cute

Moulded from steel left over from the last girder on the Olympic stadium, London's 2012 mascots are neither cuddly nor cute but organisers say the gleaming one-eyed metallic forms will strike a......

Revealed! Rio 2016 mascots inspired by animals and plants

Characters were born out of the joy of the Brazilian people at having been awarded the Games The unnamed mascots of the Rio 2016 Olympic and Paralympic Games are pictured with the Copacabana beach......