Best of TOI images for the month of April from Mangaluru

Governor Thaawar Chand Gehlot and Justice S Abdul Nazeer, judge, Supreme Court at the 40th Convocation of Mangalore University at Konaje _Ravi Posavanike

Chief minister Basavaraj Bommai visiting Sri Krishna Math in Udupi

A BMW car jumped the divider near Ballalbagh in Mangaluru injuring a few people and a woman seriously. After a few days later the woman was declared brain dead and her organs were donated

A speeding bus hit a two-wheeler and causing fire at Hampankatta in Mangaluru, luckily all passengers escaped unhurt but two wheeler rider was injured

‘Addana pettu’, resembling warriors fighting in battle, a tradition played during the annual Daivotsava of ‘Ullakulu’ at Mandekolu village in Sullia taluk of Dakshina Kannada _Ravi Posavanike

(from left) Hemavathi V Heggade, Harikrishna Punaroor and Devadas Kapikkad, who received honourary doctorate at the 40th Convocation of Mangalore University at Konaje -Ravi Posavanike

'Thootedara' also known as 'Agni Keli', a tradition carried out from centuries, where two villagers, Attoor and Kodettoor, near Kateel use burning palm fronds against each other as part of a `game’ to please the deity as part of the annual festival at the Kateel Sri Durgaparameshwari Temple near Mangaluru _Ravi Posavanike

Muslims offering prayer under banyan tree at Iftar organised by Sahakara Nyaya Koota, an organisation of secular thinkers in Mangaluru _Ravi Posavanike

Bhagavan Mahaveer Jayanti at Sri Adinatha Swamy Basadi in Mangaluru organised by Jain Society and Jain Milan _Ravi Posavanike

Celebration of Maundy Thursday at Maniyampare Parish by Bishop of Mangaluru Diocese Rev Fr Peter Paul Saldanha. The ritual, washing of feet is associated with Jesus washing the feet of his twelve apostles prior to Last Supper

Villagers and children taking part in 'Chendu (a rural sport resembling football)' as part of annual festival at Sri Rajarajeshwari Temple, Polali in Bantwal taluk __Ravi Posavanike

Danger zone marked at St Marys island, Malpe, in Udupi district after a few instances of tourists drowning

The wall from Wenlock Hospital to Clock Tower being painted by 30 artists on social awareness, education, health, Tulu culture, Clean–Green Kudla, agriculture, local monuments and landmarks by Swacch Mangaluru Foundation under the guidance of Ramakrishna Math Mangaluru

The place where five labourers employed in Shree Ulka LLP, an export-oriented fish processing unit located inside the Mangaluru Special Economic Zone at Permude near Mangaluru drowned in a fish wastewater tank inside the factory _Ravi Posavanike