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Mangalore, Aug 3: Mangalore City Police City Crime Branch (CCB) sleuths arrested a murder accused who had escaped after nine years. The arrested is Imran, an accomplice of Udupi based fugitive Siraj of Doddannagudde. He was held at Mangalore junction railway station on Friday. Imaran had escaped near Bappanadu under Mulki police station limits on November 11, 2005. Imran, along with Siraj Hassan

Kozhikode, Aug 3: Passengers of Air India flight AI- 962 from Jeddah had a scare on Saturday morning when the rear tyre of the aircraft burst after it landed at Karipur airport and was taxiing to the parking bay. All the 369 passengers and the crew on board Jeddah-Calicut flight AI962 are safe, an Air India official said after the plane landed at 8.30 a.m. "A person in a fire tender noticed the

Bangalore, Aug 3: Former chairman of the Karnataka State Minorities Commission and BJP?member Anwar Manippady on Saturday filed a complaint with the Inspector General and Director General of Police, Lalrokhuma Pachuau, against the Women and Child Welfare department for fabricating documents against him in a missing girl's case. Manippady met the IG&DGP?to submit his complaint copy. In his two-page

Bangalore, Aug 3: The charges against Mohammed Mustafa under the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act, 2012 have been dropped in connection with the suo motu case registered by the Whitefield police. The police had registered a suo motu first information report (FIR) for his alleged misconduct at the private school where he worked till 2011. Questions were raised on the matter

Mangalore, Aug 2: The president of Muslim Educational Association (MEA), which manages Badria Educational Institutions, has welcomed the formation of Badria Old Students' Association and expressed happiness over the desire of alumni to serve their alma mater. With this the three month-long campaign for the development of Mangalore's one of the historic educational institutions reached a new

Mangalore, Aug 2: Close to the heels of the arrest of an RSS activist for making derogatory remarks against a woman on Facebook, few like-minded organisations staged a demonstration in front of the deputy commissioner's office here on Saturday demanding strict action against offenders who posted similar derogatory comments against women or a particular community on social networking sites

Puttur, Aug 2: Nearly 20 to 30 percent of all the passport applications filed at Mangalore regional passport office in Dakshina Kannada come with fake birth certificates, according to sources. Out of the applications that were submitted at the regional passport office from the district, the maximum applications furbished with fake birth certificates came from Puttur taluk. During the verification

Gaza, Aug 2: Massive shelling by Israel today killed at least 160 people across the Hamas-ruled Gaza in past 24 hours following the collapse of a 72-hour truce shortly after it began, while two of its terrorist soldiers died. Israel bombarded the southern Gaza town of Rafah on Saturday after it was reported that an Israeli soldier had been captured by Palestinian resistance fighters. Hamas has

Kuwait, Aug 2: United Associations of Karnataka, Kuwait (UAKK) and its member associations have submitted a memorandum to Union Civil Aviation Minister Ashok Gajapathi on Wednesday urging him to restore the direct flight services between Kuwait and Mangalore on a priority basis. The memorandum to the minister stated out that Air India Express had halted its Kuwait-Mangalore direct flight service

New York, Aug 2: If we believe a shocking in-flight pattern revealed by researchers, lap infants are at greater risk of dying on board owing to bad sleeping arrangements. Through a detailed analysis of over 7,000 reported medical emergencies involving children (from newborn up to 18 years of age) on flights worldwide between January 2010 and June 2013 and found 90 percent of deaths occurred in