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Mangaluru: The lack of a prayer-room at Mangaluru International Airport has been causing inconveniences to many air passengers, especially for those who offer prayers regularly. Many Muslim passengers currently offer prayer in a congested area near the washroom at the new integrated terminal building. The airport has seen an increase in visitors from the Middle Eastern countries in recent year and...

Diplomat-turned-politician Mani Shankar Aiyar, one of the veteran leaders of Indian National Congress, believes that the 130-year-old party can bounce back to power in 2019 by exposing the failures and false promises of Narendra Modi-led NDA government. Speaking to Coastaldigest.com during his recent Dubai visit, the septuagenarian leader welcomed the regrouping of Janata Parivar and hoped that it...

While shifting some Muslim under-trials from one jail to another in the southern state of Telangana, the escorting policemen stopped their van at a secluded place and asked the men to run away. But the men did not follow the order from the police and refused to get down from the van there because, they said later, in a conspiracy the policemen perhaps wanted to shoot them from the back and pass...

Mangaluru: With dissatisfaction growing among people across coastal Karnataka with regard to allegedinaction' by the concerned government authorities against Mangalore One School over the sexual abuse of a three-and-half-year old nursery student by a school driver three weeks ago, a campaign was spearheaded by few activists and members of the society –Justice for Baby Nirbhaya, Mangalore' –...

Dronacharya was undoubtedly a great teacher. He taught the princes who used to attend his classes very well. Ekalavya being a bad student, didn't even attend a single class. Still he managed to learn of his own and proved himself to be better archer than all of Drona's pupils including his favourite Arjuna. Practically, a student with zero attendance was far better than the students who regularly...

New Delhi: The Union Minister for Civil Aviation Pusapati Ashok Gajapati Raju has assured to address the demands of expatriates of coastal Karnataka living across Middle Eastern countries including Saudi Arabia. At a meeting held here on Friday, the Union Minister positively responded to several issues pertaining to the expatriate community from coastal Karnataka raised by U T Khader, the Minister...

In the accidental explosion three men, who were making bombs in an underground makeshift workshop in Malda district of West Bengal state, were injured in October. Almost all newspapers and TV channels of the state capital Kolkata gave a wide coverage to the blast soon after police identified the injured bomb-makers as Uzir Sheikh, Abdulla Sheikh and Jasim Sheikh- three Muslims, in a press...

Report of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) militants' killing of a captured Jordanian air force pilot by burning him alive, has sparked wide condemnations from Muslim scholars, community leaders and ordinary citizens across India. The pilot Mouath al-Kasaesbeh was captured by the ISIS when he was on a bombing mission as part of the US-led air campaign against the extremist group and his...

He campaigned like a local leader, handpicked his own chief ministerial candidate for Delhi and made it a personal referendum on his leadership. Yet Prime Minister Narendra Modi could not halt the AAP juggernaut in these assembly polls and in the process lost his first election since his winning streak began with the Gujarat assembly polls in 2002. Modi delivered Gujarat for his party for three...

Mangaluru: There is good news for sportsmen and players in Mangaluru, as the city is likely to get a brand new playground. The Mangaluru City Corporation has come forward to construct a state of the art sports field at Kodikal in city limits to encourage young talent in sports. The MCC has reportedly identified a plot of five acres in Kallakanda in Kodikal to build a sports stadium for which a sum...