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Mumbai, Mar 9: More than 100 passengers on a Sharjah-bound Air India flight (IA 977) had a narrow escape after the aircraft made emergency landing in Mumbai due to an engine fire. Passengers said they heard a huge sound and spotted fire emanating from one of the two engines of the aircraft while it was flying over the sea, leading to the immediate diversion of the aircraft to Mumbai, where

Malappuram, Mar 9: Two gold bars weighing one kilo each were seized from underneath the seat of a flight that arrived from Sharjah at Karipur Airport on Sunday, hinting at an involvement of flight cleaning workers or attendants in a smuggling racket. Ashiq Thenginkunnummal, 25, from Ekarool near Perambra in Kozhikode district, was arrested for smuggling in the gold worth Rs.55 lakh. He arrived

Mangaluru/ Bengaluru, Mar 9: The plight of a man who hears over phone his wife pleading with her killer or killers that she be spared could not be explained in words. And if both are thousands of kilometres apart, the nightmare could be anyone's guess. G Arun Kumar was in Bengaluru and could do little when his wife in Sydney interrupted their telephonic conversation and said, "I think I have been

Hubballi, Mar 9: As many as 77 passengers, including Information Minister Roshan Baig, three judges of the Karnataka High Court, and an MLC, had a narrow escape when Bengaluru-Hubballi SpiceJet SG 1085 aircraft veered off the runway at Hubballi airport on Sunday evening. The 78-seater Bombardier Q-400 aircraft with four crew members was on time. As the tyres of the wheels of the plane which was

Udupi, Mar 9: Days after police booked her for 'provocative' speech at a similar event, VHP leader Sadhvi Balika Saraswati has been invited by the outfit to attend its Udupi 'Virat Hindu Samajotsav' today. The invitation comes after VHP International Working President Pravin Togadia was banned yesterday for a week from entering Udupi district of Karnataka for the Hindu Samjotsava rally. The

Melbourne, Mar 8: A 41-year-old Mangaluru-origin IT consultant was brutally stabbed to death in Australia, just 300m from her home, police said today as they launched a probe into the horrific attack. Prabha Shetty Arun Kumar was on the phone to a member of her family when the "horrific" attack happened yesterday in Westmead, a suburb in Sydney. Kumar told the relative, "I think I've been stabbed"

Mangaluru, Mar 8: Alleging injustice to the Dalit community by the police department for withdrawing the SC/ST (Prevention of Atrocities) Act against the accused in connection with an assault on a community member, a Dalit representative urged that the police department should conduct a re-inquiry in the case under the guidance of the Dakshina Kannada Superintendent of Police. Speaking at the SC

New Delhi, Mar 8: Senior journalist and former editor of Outlook, Vinod Mehta, passed away on Sunday. Outlook announced Mehta's death on Sunday morning. He was 73. Mehta breathed his last at All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) where he was admitted. He died of multi-organ failure, AIIMS spokesperson Amit Gupta said. Born in Rawalpindi (now in Pakistan) in 1942, Mehta was known for his

Mangaluru, Mar 8: An expatriate worker from Uppinangady who had mysteriously gone missing from the international airport at Mumbai while returning from Saudi Arabia, is said to have been traced in Mumbai. On his way home in a flight scheduled to land at Mangaluru International Airport, 25-year-old Safwan, who had been employed as a technician in Saudi Arabia, went missing from Chhatrapati Shivaji

Bengaluru, Mar 7: A while ago, this megamind took the country by storm when he appeared in Kaun Banega Crorepati and the scene at Greenwood High International School was no different. Kautilya Pandit, also called as the Google boy kept all the students on their toes, fascinating them with his implausible memory and knack for current affairs, general knowledge and world geography. The 7-year-old