Mangalore in the news
These charts use 21,615 public news records about Mangaluru, Dakshina Kannada, and nearby coastal Karnataka. They show the busiest years, repeated subjects, publisher differences, and the records precise enough to map.
Start
Each circle is one public news record after duplicate links were removed. The first view leaves them loose, so the scale of the dataset comes first.
This is not a police register, hospital register, rainfall log, or traffic database. It shows what appeared in public news sources.
Time
The tallest year is 2023, with 3,174 records. The next two full years are 2024 with 2,714 and 2025 with 2,686. The 2026 column is still partial.
This is a count of saved news records, not a count of incidents. The dataset becomes much denser after 2018.
Topics
A crash in heavy rain can be both road safety and weather. A drainage protest can be civic work, governance, and rain.
The chart places each record by one main subject so the groups can be compared. The dataset still keeps secondary subjects: 12,103 records have one subject and 9,512 have more than one.
Roads
Road safety is the largest main subject: 8,025 records, about 37% of the dataset. Health has 3,837 records, civic work has 2,214, and rain and weather has 1,712.
When secondary subjects are included, road safety appears in 8,430 records. That is why the next charts look more closely at accidents.
Road incidents
The accident set keeps reports about crashes, collisions, hit-and-runs, vehicle falls, and similar road incidents. It has 1,939 records.
December has the most. May, April, March, June, and September follow. Unlike rain, accident reports do not form one clear season.
Weekdays
Monday and Sunday are slightly higher, but the week is mostly even. There is no clear weekend or weekday split.
The more useful split comes from the vehicles named in the reports and the death or injury numbers written in them.
Vehicles
The vehicle chart keeps six clear groups: buses, two-wheelers, trucks or lorries, cars or vans, auto-rickshaws, and trains. It leaves out ambulance mentions and vague uses of "vehicle".
There are 2,783 vehicle mentions. Two-wheelers are highest. Cars or vans, buses, and trucks or lorries are close behind.
One report can name more than one vehicle, so these are vehicle mentions, not accident counts.
Death records
For 1,501 vehicle mentions, the report gives a death, injury, or hospitalization number. Two-wheelers appear in 497 of them. Of those, 477 include a death count.
The other main vehicle groups combine to 1,004 mentions with death, injury, or hospitalization numbers; 756 include a death count. Two-wheeler reports are more likely to include deaths in this dataset.
This does not tell us how risky each vehicle is for people who use it. It tells us what this news dataset records about accident reports.
Rain
Rain and weather records rise from May through August. July is highest with 502 records; June has 440, August has 445, and May has 431.
This is news coverage, not rainfall measurement. It is still useful because it gives us a time window for later comparisons with drainage, flooding, wetlands, and ward data.
Source
Daijiworld contributes 11,825 records, more than any other source here. Nearly half are road-safety records. Mangalorean.com contributes 3,759 records, with health as its largest group.
Namma Kudla News and Mangalore Today have different mixes. This is not a publisher ranking. It shows why source mix matters before comparing subjects or years.
Map
There are 3,933 records with clear Mangaluru place mentions. A place name is not always a map point, so the map uses only 102 records with checked local coordinates.
The map is a checked subset, not the full dataset. Hover a point to read the headline behind it.
Road map
In the checked map points, road-safety records appear across familiar junctions and corridors. Padil and Surathkal appear five times each. Nanthoor and Kottara Chowki appear four times each.
This is not a risk map. It shows repeated place names in the checked news subset.
Rain map
Kottara Chowki appears 17 times in the checked rain-and-weather map points, far more than any other mapped place in that subset.
The month view showed when rain records rise. The map shows where the checked rain records repeat.
Civic map
Pumpwell appears 12 times in the checked civic-work map points. Nanthoor follows with four.
Time, subject, source, and place each show a different part of the same news dataset.
Start
Each dot is one public news record.
All 21,615 records are shown as dots.
These charts show what appears in public news records. They do not replace police, hospital, traffic, or rainfall data. The strongest claims are about this dataset: counts, subjects, sources, timing, and checked map points.