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Mangalore, Mar 10: The officers of Customs at Mangalore International Airport have again thwarted attempt of smuggling of gold on Monday. They seized four gold pieces, totally weighing 1 kilogram and 130 grams and valued at Rs.30,60,398 and it was concealed in an Air Compressor. Passenger named Muhammad Kunhi Cheeri Kundu, 39, a resident of Cheeri Kundu House, Cheruvathur, Kaidakkad in Kasaragod

Muscat, Mar 10: Two Indian nationals, including a former managing director and a manager of a multinational engineering company in Oman, were among seven persons convicted and sentenced to jail in five bribery cases. Muscat Primary Court Sunday sentenced Kerala based former managing director P Mohammad Ali and a manager, whose name is not mentioned in the report, of Galfar Engineering to 15 years

Mangalore, Mar 10: Former Union minister B Janardhan Poojary, who is the official Congress candidate from the Mangalore parliamentary constituency in the Lok Sabha elections, threw a challenge to BJP prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi to contest in the elections from the same constituency as him. Announcing this at a press conference here on Monday, he said that Modi ought to contest from

Mangalore, Mar 10: The Aam Aadmi Party of Dakshina Kannada unit announced that Marpalli Ramayya Vasudeva, popularly known as M RVasudeva as its Lok Sabha Candidate for the Dakshina Kannada constituency. Mr Vasudeva is a former Director of Airport Authority of India at Mangalore International Airport. In a press release, Rohan Shiri, a founding member of AAP DK said “Vasudeva as our MP Candidate

Mangalore, Mar 10: Two men, reportedly from an underworld gang, opened fire at a builder 's office at Bejai new road in Mangalore on Monday. The men fired at Bharati Builder and Developers located at Bejai new road near Anegundi in the city. The office is belonged to real-estate businessman Lokanath Shetty. Around 11 a.m. two motorcycle-borne shooters opened fire at the office. Though nobody was

Mangalore, Mar 10: Bantwal town police arrested four persons on Sunday in connection with Congress and BJP workers clash at Kalladka. Guruvappa, Poovappa Tailor, Keshava and Mithun are the arrested and the police are on the lookout for more. They have been remanded in judicial custody for 15 days. Superintendent of police Sharanappa SD, said that four teams all headed by inspectors has been formed

Mangalore, Mar 10: The officers of customs at Mangalore International Airport seized 39 gold pieces, totally weighing 816.450 grams valued at Rs.25.22 lakh from a passenger on Monday. The gold was concealed in two unbranded AC adapters and two 'DIC' brand car power supply transformers. The accused is Muhammed Rafeeque Kizhakkante Purakkal, a resident of Pallikandy, Kallai Post, Kozhikode, Kerala

Belthangady, Mar 10: In a tragic incident, two high-school students drwoned in a river on Sunday at Kalmanja in Belthangady. The victims identified as Adithya and Sooraj, both class IX students of Anugraha English Medium School in Belthangady ventured into Nidigal river for fishing. It's learnt that the students failed to gauge the depth of the water and could not come out. They drowned while

Udupi, Mar 9: Skeletal remains, believed to be that of a five-year-old boy, who went missing from February 23 were in a forest area near Pambooru in Udupi on Sunday. Naveen, son of Nagaraj and Asha, labourer couple from Tamilnadu who are residing in Dharmashree colony in Padubelle in Udupi was last seen playing in the courtyard. His skull and bones along with the footwear and clothes were spotted

Aligarh, Mar 9: Muslims should participate “wholeheartedly” in the electoral process and support the best candidates, noted Islamic scholar and chief rector of the Darul Uloom Theological School, Lucknow, Maulana Rabey Hasan Nadwi, said on Sunday. “All that I can say is that Muslims should participate wholeheartedly in the electoral process. They should support the best candidates and hope for the