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Mumbai, Feb 17: As many as 194 people including seven crew members on board an Air India flight from Mangalore had a lucky escape after the long tail portion of the aircraft scraped the runway during touchdown at the Mumbai Airport. Confirming the incident, which occurred last Sunday, an Air India spokesperson said the flight crew members have been de-rostered and the DGCA is carrying out

Kanpur, Feb 17: A delegation of Muslim clerics led by the Sunni Ulema Council's General Secretary met RSS functionary Indresh and posed six questions to the Sangh including whether it has prepared a format to turn India into a Hindu 'rashtra', which he claimed left the saffron outfit irritated. The Muslim delegation claimed that Indresh refused to answer their questions and instead said that a

Mangaluru, Feb 17: Urging Home Minister K J George to strengthen police force in Dakshina Kannada which is a communally-sensitive district, MLC Ivan D'Souza said that the minister had promised to look into the proposal in this regard. Addressing a press conference here on Monday, the MLC said that the district faced shortage of police personnel with only 497 civil police and 174 DAR police

Mumbai, Feb 17: Sarfaraz Khan already has a plan in place for the Rs. 50 lakh paycheque that will come his way after he was bought for that whopping sum by Royal Challengers Bangalore at the Indian Premier League (IPL) auction yesterday. Sarfaraz (17), who was the youngest to enter the IPL auction yesterday in Bangalore, is planning to buy a car for his father Naushad. It is not to show off the

Mangaluru, Feb 17: A project will be shortly implemented to provide free housing sites through Mangaluru Urban Development Authority (MUDA) to those 15 police officers in Dakshina Kannada who had been part of the operation which led to the killing of notorious dacoit and Sandalwood smuggler Veerappan. Proposed at a cost of Rs 1.7 crore, the state government has already given the administrative nod

Washington, Feb 17: A Hindu temple has been vandalised with hate speech in the US state of Washington, sending shock waves through the community in the area and prompting authorities to launch an investigation. The incident happened when unidentified miscreants sprayed swastika and painted "Get Out" on one of the walls of the temple in the Seattle Metropolitan area. It is one of the largest Hindu

Jaipur, Feb 17: A baby boy delivered inside a toilet of a train by a woman slipped through the flush pipe and fell on railway track but survived miraculously in Rajasthan's Hanumangarh district, a railway police official said Monday. "The incident occurred late on Sunday night in Dabli Rathan in Hanumangarh when a pregnant woman who was travelling on Barmer Kalka Express from Suratgarh to

Udupi, Feb 17: Congress has been responsible for its own defeat in recent elections held in the country, not because it was defeated by others, said Rajya Sabha member Oscar Fernandes. Addressing Congress members at a members' meeting held in Rajeev Bhavan in Kaup recently, he said that the party encountered defeat since it was unprepared to face elections. "We failed to even make our achievements

Bengaluru, Feb 17: Countering charges of various opposition parties, Chief Minister Siddaramaiah has asserted that Gross State Domestic Product (GSDP) has at 14.3 per cent in 2014-15 against the target of 14.5 per cent. Replying to a debate on the motion of thanks to governor's address, Siddaramaiah said that Karnataka's growth was best compared to all other south Indian states. Reeling out

New Delhi: The employees’ union of the state-run Airports Authority of India (AAI) on Monday called an all-India strike at AAI-run airports on March 11 to protest against the government’s move to hand over the management and operation of four airports — Kolkata, Chennai, Jaipur and Ahmedabad —possibly on a contract basis to private operators. The decision to strike work was taken at a meeting of