First Haj flight from Mangaluru takes off

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August 4, 2016

Mangaluru, Aug 4: The first flight from the coastal city for Haj season 2016 took off on Thursday morning at the Mangaluru International Airport. The special Haj flights will continue till August 7.

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Every day A-320 type Air India flight will take off from the Airport carrying around 150 passengers, who will land in Madinah via Sharjah. There were 152 passengers on board the inaugural flight which took off at 11:05 a.m.

The pilgrims, who had gathered at the old terminal building at Bajpe last evening, boarded the buses arranged by the Haj committee today morning and reached the Airport by 9: 15 a.m.

R Roshan Baig, minister for urban development and Haj, also visited the Airport at 9:30 to send off the pilgrims. MLAs Mohiuddin Bava, JR Lobo, Haj management committee chief Y Mohammed Kunhi, District Wakf Advisory Committee president S M Rasheed Haji were present.

As many as 628 pilgrims from Dakshina Kannada, Udupi, Kodagu, Chikkamagaluru and Hassan districts are boarding Haj flights from Mangaluru this year.

Also Read: Show the world that Islam is peace: Minister tells Mangaluru Haj pilgrims

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Ahmed Bava
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Thursday, 4 Aug 2016

Masha Allah Isaq Bhai Ahlan Wa Sahlan

Ahmed Bava
 - 
Thursday, 4 Aug 2016

Masha Alla

Al Mighty Allah accept all our good deeds In Sha Allah HAJJ MAKBOOL and MABROOR

Ahmed
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Thursday, 4 Aug 2016

Stop Selfie... dont make a selfie camp there. forget dunya and concentrate on your ibaadat...
May ALLAH make your path easy and accept your ibaadat and Hajj.

SYED
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Thursday, 4 Aug 2016

MAY ALLAH ACCEPT THE GOOD DEEDS FROM ALL HAJIS.

MAY ALLAH BRING ALL PEOPLE WHO WENT FOR HAJJ BACK HOME SAFELY. AAMEEN.

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July 17,2020

Udupi, July 17: An Indian expatriate from coastal Karnataka who was working in Kuwait passed away in a hospital in the oil-rich country reportedly due to covid-19.

Sheikh Mohammed Syed (54) was a native of Kharvi in Kundapura taluk of Udupi district. He is survived by his mother, wife and three daughters. 

An ex athletic champion from Bhandarkars' Arts & Science College, he was a well-known Volleyball and Kabaddi player in Kundapur.  He was associated with many sports associations in Udupi. 

An employee of KRH firm, he was hospitalized in Kuwait three weeks ago due to ill health. He was tested positive for covid-19.

He breathed his last yesterday without responding to any treatment. Final rites were held in Kuwait. 

Prior to migrating to Kuwait, he had worked in United Arab Emirates for several years. A sports enthusiast, he had trained many athletes in Udupi.

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May 22,2020

Mangaluru, May 22: Dakshina Kannada today reported a fresh case of coronavirus infection, taking the coastal district's tally to 62. 

The new patient is a 29-year-old womon, who was under instituional quarantine monitored by the district administration in Belthangady. 

She had returned from Mumbai on May 18. Her throat swabs were sent for covid-19 testing on the following day and today she received positive result.

Out of the 62 covid-19 cases detected in Dakshina Kannada so far, only 50 are residents of the district. Among 12 others 4 are from Kasaragod and 3 from Karkala, 2 each from Uttara Kannada and Mumbai, and 1 from Kalaburgi.

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April 7,2020

Bengaluru, Apr 7: With reporting of 12 positive cases of COVID-19 since last evening, including three women, the total number of confirmed cases in Karnataka increased to 175, including four deaths.

According to official sources, while three fresh cases of COVID-19 were reported from Bengaluru, two each had been reported from Bagalkot, Kalaburagi and Mandya, followed by one each at Gadag and Bengaluru Rural districts.

After a gap of over three weeks, two more fresh cases had been reported from Kalaburagi, which had reported the first death of the country.

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