Karnataka

Mangalore, Feb 11: Air India Express, which is all set commence its much-anticipated Mangalore-Dammam direct flight operations from April 3, has opened bookings with an attractive inaugural fare. The all-inclusive inaugural fare on Dammam-Mangalore route begins from SAR 674, while fare on Mangalore-Dammam route begins from INR 11,266. Meanwhile, Air India Express has appealed the Mangaloreans in

Manipal, Feb 11: Manipal origin engineer-turned-composer Arun Shenoy, who scored a Grammy nomination for his world-fusion album Rumbadoodle, lost the award for Best Pop Instrumental Album to Chris Botti's Impressions. Rumbadoodle was two years in the making and took Shenoy across the world to collaborate with artists. He is son of Dr Vasantha Shenoy and Poornima Shenoy. Arun Shenoy went to school

Mangalore, Feb 11: A lady hailing from Kodical in Mangalore has been arrested by the police in connection to murder of Girish Putran, which took place about one and half month ago. Nathasha, a 28-year-old unmarried lady is in the police net and the police is trying to nab several others persons who played a role in the murder. Mr Putran was murdered and his dead body was found near MSEZ area in

Mangalore, Feb 11: Out of the 18 law colleges that participated, SVKM's Pravin Gandhi College of Law, Mumbai, emerged as overall winners of the three-day national-level law fest 'Victoria Iuris 13' organised by SDM Law College and Centre for Post Graduate Studies and Research in Law, Mangalore, while VM Salgaocar College of Law, Goa, emerged as the overall runner-up. Delivering the valedictory

Moodbidri, Feb 10: The foundation stone laying ceremony for Daar-un-Noor Education Centre being established by Shaheed C M Abdullah Musliyar Foundation-Karnataka was held at Kashipatna near Moodbidri on Sunday. The ceremony was followed by convention in which several religious leaders from Kerala and Karnataka took part. Thwaka Ahmed Musliyar, Kazi of Mangalore and honorary president of Daar-un

Abu Dhabi, Feb 10: Air India's Abu Dhabi area sales manager collapsed and died at work in the airline's airport office on Saturday afternoon. Airport doctors examined Rajesh Parekh, who was suffering from a heart problem, and declared him dead. His body, which is now kept at the mortuary in Abu Dhabi, is to be sent home to India after completing the necessary paperwork. Rajesh Parekh, Air India's

Mangalore, Feb 10: Renowned spiritual guru Mata Amruthanandamayi in her discourse has touched upon the burning issue of drug menace threatening the society. In Mangalore, with the death of a teenager owing to drug addiction, Amma's (as she is addressed by her devotees) discourse was all the more relevant as the spiritual guru said that the very awareness on the ill-effects of drugs itself can be a

Udupi, Feb 10: To curb illegal trafficking and the menace of drugs in the district, the Udupi District Police has set up five anti-drugs squads as part of the Cigarettes and Other Tobacco Products Act (COTPA) 2003, informed a press release on Saturday. The five individual squads have been formed under Udupi Deputy SP Prabhadev Mane, Udupi CPI Maruthi Nayak, Manipal PI Sadashiv Tippannavar, Karkala

Mangalore, Feb 10: A man died of elephant attack at Pulikukku of Kodimbala village in Kadaba limits near Uppinagady. The deceased identified as Kushalappa Gowda from pulikukku was not just attacked by a pachyderm at about 11 am on Friday, but it caught hold of Gowda and threw him into Kumaradhara river, which rendered Gowda dead. Though, earlier it was assumed that he died of elephant attack, the

Riyadh, Feb 10: If it was an international cricket match then Indians in general and Mangaloreans in specific would have had a reason to go hysteric again. The student teams representing national cricket arch rivals India and Pakistan were face to face at the Saudi Gazette Inter-School Cricket Tournament where Indian International School Riyadh (IISR) won the Saudi Gazette Inter-School Cricket