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Mangaluru, Dec 5: Traffic on the busy National Highway 66 was disrupted at Panambur on the outskirts of the city on Thursday after city bus rammed into a KSRTC Volvo bus off the KIOCL Ltd bus stop. At least two passengers sustained injuries in the accident. The city bus was plying to Jokatte from state bank bus terminus while the Volvo was heading to Manipal. The accident took place in the haste

Mangaluru, Dec 5: An operator noticed a leakage in the LPG pipeline connecting the 650 metric tonne LPG storage sphere bottom to the Remote Operated Valve (ROV), at the Bharat Petroleum Corporation Limited (BPCL) LPG bottling plant at Baikampady Industrial area in Mangaluru on Thursday at around 11.20 am. Immediately the emergency siren was blown, which was followed by the fire extinguishing

Mangaluru, Dec 4: Eight associates of underworld operative Vikki Shetty have been arrested by the Central Crime Branch police near the Tannirbhavi beach, here on Wednesday. The arrested are Manoj Kumar (28), Raghavendra (30), Santosh Poojary (33), Bharatesh (30), Naveen (26), Sandhesh (29), Chetan (27) and Varneet Shetty (30). The arrests were made after the police raided a place near GMR

Mangaluru, Dec 4: A team of doctors from Indiana Hospital have performed a rare surgery successfully on a 74-old-man on November 20. Addressing media persons at Indiana Hospital in Mangaluru, Chief Interventional cardiologist Dr Yusuf Kumble who led the team of surgeons, said that N Rajaram Rao, a 74-year-old man from Moodbidri suffered from abdominal pain since few months. He was diagnosed with

Mangaluru, Dec 4: In a peculiar incident, the driver of a transport lorry has gone absconding with a cargo of Rs 44.14 lakhs worth of areca produce from the city's port. The absconding lorry driver has been identified as Mohanlal Raj Ghor. It is learnt that the manager of Naranji Peraj Transport company Mahendrabai Lal Vador had given instructions to the lorry driver Mohanlal to transport the

Manglauru, Dec 4: The officers of customs at Mangaluru International Airport have seized more than one kilo gram gold worth nearly Rs 28 lakh smuggled from Dubai. The accused identified as Abdul Gaffoor Kadappuram (44) son of Ahamed Kunhi Kaddappuram, a resident of Kanhangad in Kasaragod district was nabbed by the authorities. He reached the Airport on Wednesday at 8:10 a.m. by Jet Airways flight

Chamarajanagar, Dec 4: At least 729 gold coins have been recovered by police from the toilet pit diggers at Haradanahalli village near Chamarajanagar. The local police on Wednesday confiscated another 636 antique gold coins from daily wage workers who had hidden them. On Monday, as many as 93 gold coins were recovered by the police following a complaint against the labourers. When interrogated

Mangaluru, Dec 4: The Dakshina Kannada district unit of BJP Mahila Morcha staged a Jail Bharo programme on Thursday by blocking the movement of traffic at A B Shetty circle in the city. Over 200 members of the Mahila Morcha were taken into custody by the police for blocking the movement of vehicles at the traffic junction as a mark of protest against the Congress government's inefficiency to

Mangaluru, Dec 4: The Karnataka state government has reportedly accorded approval for the acquisition of land required to extend the runway at Mangaluru International Airport. Revealing this to media persons at the sidelines of a programme, MIA director J T Radhakrishna said that the Dakshina Kannada district administration had earlier submitted a proposal to the State government to acquire 185

Mangaluru, Dec 4: Two women lost their lives in separate incidents of drowning in Dakshina Kannada district. Incidentally both women died after slipping into lakes. Nalinakshi (20) died after she reportedly slipped into a lake near her house in Uruvalu village, Belthangady taluk on Wednesday evening. She had been engaged and was to be married on January 18, sources said. A case has been registered