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Mumbai, Jul 25: Bollywood superstar Rajesh Khanna's Carter Road bungalow, popularly known as 'Aashirwad', is being sold to a Mangalore based industrialist. The landmark sea-facing property, a major tourist attraction for legions of his fans, is believed to have been purchased by Shashi Kiran Shetty, executive chairman of Allcargo Logistics. Market sources said the 603sq m property could fetch the

Mangalore, Jul 25: Home Minister K J George said that plans were on the anvil to set up a prison with maximum security in Mangalore soon. Replying to a query by MLC Ivan D'Souza in the Legislative Council on Thursday, he said that a plot of 100-acre land in Kurnadu and Cheloor villages in Bantwal taluk had been identified for the project. He informed that close to 64 acres had been acquired by the

Mangalore, Jul 25: In a major fire mishap, six shops at KC Road junction in Talapady area were gutted causing a loss over Rs 75 lakhs on the wee hours of Friday. Zam Zam Bakery belonging to Abdul Sattar, Ideal Bakery, NM Point mobile and computers service centre belonging to Naushad, a vegetable shop belonging to Mohammed Ali, a cloth store and another shop were gutted in the fire. The fire which

Malappuram, Jul 25: Tens of thousands of Sunni believers attended a mammoth prayer congregation at Swalat Nagar near here on Thursday evening anticipating Lailathul Qadr, the night that is believed by Muslims to be holier than 1,000 months. The sprawling grounds of Swalat Nagar at Muttippaditurned into a sea of humanity as thousands of Sunni believers converged there. The mega prayer congregation

Mangalore, Jul 25: As many as 800 passports passport applications are pending in 26 police stations in Dakshina Kannada district including Mangalore city with the passport office for want of police verification certificates, said Home Minister K J George. In a written reply to MLC Ivan D'Souza, Mr George said that 390 applications in 12 police stations under the limits Dakshina Kannada district

Mangalore, Jul 25: Jet Airways will operate two more daily flights between Mangalore and Bangalore from August 11, the Director of Mangalore International Airport J T Radhakrishna has said in a press release. Flight no. 9 W 2755 will depart from Bangalore at 10.30 a.m. and will arrive in Mangalore at 11.40 a.m. On its return journey flight no. 9 W 2756 will depart from here at 12.10 p.m. and reach

Mangalore, Jul 25: Karnataka High Court on Wednesday upheld the state government's decision to replace the chiefs of nearly 13 academies who had been appointed during BJP tenure. Former Presidents of Beary Academy's Rahim Uchil, Yakshayana Bayalata Academy Prof M L Samaga and Lalitha Kala Academy's Chi Su Krishna Shetty had moved to the High Court stating that the present government has sacked

Mumbai, Jul 24: Founder President Board of Governors Gulf Medical University was conferred with the prestigious Award for Outstanding Contribution to Education' at the World Chancellors Congress 2014 held in Mumbai. The award ceremony was attended by over 300 leaders including Chancellors, Vice Chancellors and eminent educationists, academicians and policy makers from various leading universities

Mangalore, Jul 24: Many families breaking the Ramadan fast with the customary dates may be unwittingly consuming the fruit grown in Israel. The large, succulent Medjool dates, received enthusiastically by Muslims in the belief these are from Jordan, in fact come from Israel, a country hated in the Islamic world for its conflict with Palestinian Arabs. In the past week, Kozhikode has protests over

Mangalore, Jul 24: Following the atrocities committed by the authorities of the St. Aloysius College, Mangalore on June 26 when they brought a JCB Bulldozer and physically demolished the residential house in which John Baptist Lewis and his daughters were living after removing all his original documents and then burying every item that the family possessed right up to their money, jewellery and