Daijiworld Media Network – Mangalore (SP)

Mangalore, Jun 13: Rains intensified on Sunday June 12 in almost all the taluks of the twin-districts of Udupi and Dakshina Kannada. Subrahmanya, Puttur, Kollur, and some other places registered good rains, while most other parts experienced normal rains. Kollur received the highest rainfall of 11 cms.

The meteorological department has predicted rains in most parts of the coast and some parts of the southern and northern hinterlands. The coastal regions registered between four to seven cms of rain.

A newly-married youth named Shishupal Shetty (32), resident of Nadimar Bailumane near Ajekar in Karkala taluk, lost his life after slipping and falling into a waterway brimming with water. He was an agriculturist by profession, and had got married about 20 days back. After working in Mumbai for a few years, he had recently chosen to settle down at his native place. He is survived by wife, two elder sisters, parents, a younger brother, and a younger sister.

After lightning struck Manipal police station on Sunday evening, electronic equipments suffered damages. Asphalted stretch of the newly erected minor bridge at Brahmarakootlu Ramalkatte on national highway between city and Bantwal developed cracks, after mud heaped on one side of the road suffered landslide. The minor bridge was built over a road leading to Tumbe vented dam. It is reasoned that the authorities, who had heaped mud to raise the height, failed to properly set the mud into a slope and reinforce it with the help of stones. A few electric poles at Mastikatte near Panemangalore got uprooted after a coconut tree fell on electric cables. Seven houses in Sampigenagar, Udyavar near Udupi, suffered damages due to gale on Sunday.  In the meantime, repairs to the asphalting of road at the point where Netravati Bridge near Adam Kudri, Kallapur near here was damaged, has been completed, and the road is expected to open for traffic by Monday evening.