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His name is Sharath Suvarna, owner of Sri Durga Prasad Earthmovers, Bajpe. He has been in this business for the past 7 to 8 years. He is the Vice president of Narayana Guru Seva Sangh which recently distributed note books to poor students as well. He gets a call on Saturday, May 22, at around 7. 30 am from the Police Station. The call says a Dubai-Mangalore plane has crashed and we need your

With time, the intensity of pain eases, or so goes the proverb. But for the relatives and friends of the Mangalore air crash victims, whose bodies have still not been identified, the trauma seems to be deepening with each passing hour. Even as they are anxiously awaiting the results of the DNA test, which is believed to take anywhere between seven to 10 days, or even longer, they are grappled with

“We adopted him from an orphanage as we did not have any child. My husband was reluctant to accept him as ‘our’ son in the beginning, but then the baby was so bubbly that it won the heart of my better half. It was a beautiful life that followed- full of happiness and ‘life’. We were a happy family”, said Ms Sharma, an elderly lady in the old age home whom we visited from college as a part of our

It was a fine morning, cloudy skies, cool breeze, the pleasant smell of wet soil, one of nature’s finer days. I was savouring the lovely weather with a cup of coffee and reading the morning paper when the doorbell buzzed. It was Aunt Lalita, our very own gossip goose. At forty five years and seventy five kgs, she managed to keep track of not just what happened in our locality but just about the

Non Resident Indian’ or ‘NRI’, is a beautiful phrase which naturally impresses common men in Indian society, because generally people think that NRIs lead a happier and more successful life compared to the other Indians. But, in fact, as far as the Muslim NRIs leading an expatriate life in Gulf countries are concerned the above assumption is not true, as their lives are filled with agony, sorrows

It all started on the 6th of November 1968, the day I made my presence on the earth. Life in Mumbai was tough right from the word ‘go’. I was the sixth and youngest child of my parents. My father was a taxi-driver and mother, a housewife. They raised us up with great difficulty and the agony was at its climax. Luck dealt a cruel blow when I was 12 years and I lost my Dad. There was no proper

Mangalore, May 15: In a persistent effort to pressurize the Civil Aviation Ministry of India to launch direct flight from Mangalore Airport to Saudi Arabia, a delegation of Coastaldigsest.com, owned by Amaco group of companies, submitted a memorandum to Praful Patel, the Union Minister of State for Civil Aviation, reiterating its demand at the sidelines of inaugural ceremony of New Integrated

Sageer Trikarpur is the Chairman of Kuwait Kerala Muslim Association, the largest social welfare organization of Indians in Kuwait. Over the past three decades of involvement in social service activities, Sageer Trikarpur has emerged as one of the most influential and admired community leader in Kuwait. He has a reputation of achieving extraordinary results from ordinary men. His leadership

After much dithering, the New Integrated Terminal Building (NITB) at Kenjar, housing both international and domestic flights is all set for inauguration on May 15, marking another milestone in the history of Mangalore International Airport. The NITB is likely to be operational after a week of the formal inauguration. The transformation of the petite Bajpe airport, operating a single Indian

Over two decades ago, there was an ideal village in Dakshina Kannada District called Kalavar, with agriculture as the main occupation of its inhabitants. The village was enriched with natural beauty and resources. People of Kalavar were very neat, clean and quite enlightened. They had a sense of discipline and co-operation. They had a spirit of service and sacrifice. They had been following the