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Mangaluru, May 2: The Mangaluru International Airport (MIA) has bagged second place in overall customer satisfaction with a rating of 4.82 in the round III (January 2015 - June 2015) in a survey carried out at all the 53 airports in India. MIA’s last year rating was 4.65 in the round II (June 2014 to December 2014) and 4.38 in round I (January 2014 to June 2014). The Chandigarh airport has

Bengaluru, May 2: The State government is providing free rice to four crore people of the nearly six crore population under the Anna Bhagya scheme. The reason? Compared to the other southern states, the highest poverty is in Karnataka. This was how Chief Minister Siddaramaiah on Friday defended his pet scheme Anna Bhagya while launching the modified food grain programme under the public

Mangaluru, May 1: A tense situation prevailed in Subhash Nagar village near Thokkottu on the outskirts of Mangaluru city when local residents began to protest against the installation of a CCTV camera atop a madrasa building. Around four CCTV cameras were installed atop Anjuman Mablagul Falah madrasa building in Subash Nagar residential area on Thursday evening. A few local residents began to

Mangaluru, May 1: The management of Darul Irshad educational institutions has decided to offer a sum of Rs 5 lakh as compensation to the family of Abdul Naseer, who was electrocuted to death while putting up buntings in Mani on the outskirts of the city on Monday night. The deceased Abdul, Naseer (19) from Sullia taluk, was a graduate student of KGN Da'awa College under the Darul Irshad Charitable

Port Blair, May 1: An earthquake measuring 5.1 on the Richter scale hit the Andaman and Nicobar Islands this afternoon at 2.30 pm. There is no tsunami warning, said experts. The small chain of islands lie hundreds of miles east of India in the Indian Ocean. Today's quake comes as Nepal is struggling with relief operations after more than 6,200 people were killed after the capital of Kathmandu was

Mumbai, May 1: Deepak Fertilisers today offloaded 6.42 lakh shares of Mangalore Chemicals and Fertilizers (MCFL) for Rs 5.56 crore, continuing with its move to exit from the Vijay Mallya-led UB Group firm. With the sale of shares today, the Pune-based company has reduced its stake in MCFL to 8.11 per cent from 28.47 per cent it held as on quarter-ending March 2015. Deepak Fertilisers has been

Mangaluru, May 1: The coastal city's first shopping destination and entertainment hub - City Centre Mall has completed five years of its existence in Mangaluru. On the occasion of its fifth year anniversary, the Mall has organised - Chrysalis - a month-long celebration of entertaining performances, gala events, shopping offers and exciting prizes for its customers. Having begun on April 23, the

Mangaluru, May 1: A first division assistant of a government pre-university college has been sentenced to one year of imprisonment by the III Judicial Magistrate First Class Court, here, after being found guilty of assaulting the headmistress of the college. In the charge-sheet, the Barke police said 35-year-old Shivaprasad Dev had asked Annapurna Bachchan, headmistress of Bokkapatna Government PU

Kochi, Apr 1: Five years after a Malayalam professor's right palm was chopped off by a group of men for 'blaspheming' Prophet Mohammed, an NIA trial court here on Thursday convicted 13 men, 10 of them for conspiring and committing a "terrorist act". Of those convicted, K H Jamal Hassan, K M Shobin, Shamsudeen Makkar alias Shamsu, Shanavas Abdulla alias Shemeer and Pareeth Aliyar were directly

Hubballi, May 1: The First Additional Sessions Court, Hubballi, has acquitted all 17 so called "terror suspects" accused of being part of a “sleeper cell” of the outlawed Students Islamic Movement of India (SIMI) including three doctors, one final year MBBS student and two engineers. The helpless youth were facing charges of waging war against the country, sedition and manufacture and possession