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Belthangady, Jan 4: Two ministers were caught up in the traffic jam on Charmadi Ghat road which connects Mangaluru and Chikkamagaluru district on Saturday. Health and Family Welfare Minister U T Khader and Youth services and Sports Minister K Abhyachandra Jain were returning to Mangaluru from an official function in Chikkamagalur when the incident took place. The traffic was disrupted for more

Somwarpet, Jan 4: Communal tension prevailed at Hosathota in Somwarpet taluk of Kodagu district for some time on Saturday after two miscreants allegedly belonging to Sangh Parivar rode through an Eid Milad procession. However, police intervened to bring the situation under control and briefly detained a few persons to avert further untoward incidents. Hosathota is known for such incidents, where

Mangaluru, Jan 4: A tragedy was averted by grounding an Air India flight after it suffered a crack in the windshield of its cockpit recently at Mangaluru International Airport. However, the craft was repaired in a few hours and sent back to Delhi on Friday, official sources said. œThe pilot noticed the crack and grounded the aircraft immediately for repair. Engineers flown in from New Delhi

Raichur, Jan 4: In a tragic incident, the walls of a newly built water tank collapsed during urs at a Dargah on the outskirts of Yapaladinni village, around 25 km from here, on Saturday morning killing five persons and injuring two others. In a swift action, six persons, including gram panchayat officials, government engineers and the contractor were booked by the police for the incident. The

Stockholm, Jan 4: After the string of attacks on mosques in Sweden, locals are expressing solidarity with Muslims by staging rallies. Under the banner of "Don't touch my mosque", thousands gathered in major cities Stockholm, Gothenburg and Malmo to condemn the attacks. In the city of Uppsala, a mosque which had anti-Muslim rhetoric scribbled on the walls was "love-bombed" by locals who pasted

Mangaluru, Jan 4: Four tourist women were rescued from a certain watery grave on Saturday in two separate incidents by the Lifeguards at Someshwar beach on the outskirts of the city. One of the rescued woman hails from Bengaluru while the rest were tourists from Anekal in Haveri, who had come to the city on vacation and had gone to the beach. While the trio were sucked in by a rip current, the

Mangaluru, Jan 3: Dakshina Kannada District Assistant Labour Commissioner D G Nagesh said that a total of 3,16,529 families below poverty line (BPL) had been identified in the district to cover workers in the unorganised sector under the Rashtriya Swasthya Bima Yojana (RSBY) for the year 2014. Speaking at a district-level meeting held at deputy commissioner's office here on Saturday, he said that

Mangalore, Jan 3: Thousands of Muslims in the city celebrated the Eid-e-Milad-un-Nabi, the birth anniversary of Prophet Mohammed on Saturday. Homes and institutions belonging to Muslims besides Masjids, Dargas and Madrasas were decked with flags, buntings and banners to mark the day, considered by a section of Muslims to be the most blessed in Islamic calendar. Madrasa children took out Milad

Mangaluru, Jan 3: With regard to production of arecanut, concerns of arecanut growers will have to be looked at in a comprehensive fashion, rather than as a commodity or a product with health implications, said Minister of State for Commerce and Industry, Government of India Nirmala Sitharaman. Interacting with media persons at a press conference here on Saturday, she assured that the ministry was

Mangaluru, Jan 3: A man was critically injured while two other sustained minor injuries when the car in which they were travelling met with an accident at Baikampady on the outskirts of the city on Saturday. The tragedy took place when the trio was heading to Muhiyuddeen Masjid at Baikampady to take part in a special programme to mark Eid-e-Milad-un-Nabi. According to sources the driver lost