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Jet Airways begins Mangaluru-Sharjah daily flight service

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August 7, 2016

Mangaluru, Aug 7: Jet Airways, India's premier international airline, began operating new daily service between Mangaluru and Sharjah from Sunday.

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The addition of this new service will bolster Jet Airways' offering to the Gulf market, further strengthening the airline's growing network and significantly enhance connectivity for guests.

A formal inaugural function of the new flight was held at the Airport. The function was attended by Dr Nitte Vinay Hegde, chancellor, Nitte University, Nalin Kumar Kateel, member of Parliament, Dakshina Kannada, Ramanath Rai, minister for forest, environment and ecology, U T Khader, minister for food and civil supplies, J T Radhakrishna, airport director, and U Harish Shenoy, general manager - South India, Jet Airways. Hidayathulla Abbas, chairman of Hidayath Group, UAE, an NRI businessman was the first passenger flying on the premier class to Sharjah.

Jet Airways 9W 504 will depart Mangaluru at 0930 hours and arrive in Sharjah at 1145 hours (local time). The return flight Jet Airways 9W 503 will depart from Sharjah at 1245 hours (local time) and arrive in Mangaluru at 1755 hours.

With the addition of Sharjah, Jet Airways now connects Mangaluru with three cities in the Gulf. Jet Airways currently operates daily flights from Mangaluru to Abu Dhabi and Dubai.

Additionally, with a large number of Indians travelling from Mangaluru to Gulf, Jet Airways has expanded the connectivity options from various cities across India to Gulf. Likewise, inbound passengers from Sharjah would be able to enjoy domestic connections over Mangaluru.

Gaurang Shetty, whole-time director, Jet Airways, said, "It is indeed a proud moment for us at Jet Airways to launch our flight between Mangaluru and Sharjah. We are confident that our approach to provide direct global linkages with emerging Indian metros, will be popular to those living in these cities and Indians working in the Gulf and beyond. With economic ties between the India and Gulf region flourishing, Jet Airways recognizes the need to provide connectivity options to its guests. Jet Airways, is a preferred brand in this highly competitive Indo-Gulf market and offers unparalleled service and quality to guests."

The launch of additional daily services strengthens Jet Airways' already extensive network of routes serving the region and cements its place as the largest operator connecting India and the Gulf.

The airline will deploy Boeing 737-800 Next Generation (NG) aircraft on this route, where premiere and economy passengers may enjoy the airline's in-flight service, its award-winning in-flight entertainment (IFE) programme and the airline's hallmark concept of hospitality.

Jet Airways currently operates 11 daily direct flights from India each to Dubai and Abu Dhabi.

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Rikaz
 - 
Sunday, 7 Aug 2016

Let's start Dammam -Mangalore direct jet air flight....

kaleel
 - 
Sunday, 7 Aug 2016

large number of Mangalore expatriates working in Saudi Arabia, but there is no directly flights......but daily and direct flight to sharjha????

A.Mangalore
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Sunday, 7 Aug 2016

Two Ministers , One M.P. for a flight to start from Mangalore to Sharjah, This is the not the first flight which is flying from Mangalore to Gulf countries.
Why are you people wasting your time for all this silly inaguaration.
During the time of election you people are going each and every villages in your constuiency. Leave all these inauguration business and travel to those villages and visit the people at least you can freely show your face during your next election.

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August 5,2020

Bengaluru, Aug 4: Deputy Chief Minister Dr.CN Ashwathnarayan instructed the Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) Commissioner Manjunatha Prasad to set up a separate high-level committee to ascertain the exact cause of coronavirus-related deaths in the state.

He spoke to reporters after a meeting with Prasad on Tuesday.

"The committee, headed by senior officials will audit the reason for the increase in death cases. Has there been a death due to treatment delay? Or are there any shortcomings in the treatment process?" the deputy chief minister said.

He pointed out that based on the report, the committee should try to correct the deficiency and reduce the death rate.

"How many beds are in which hospital? How many patients are on a ventilator? How many have gone home from the hospital? Etc. All information needs to be updated online at the moment. He suggested that this information should be made available to the public online," Ashwaththanarayana said.

Stating that some hospitals are not giving details about the number of beds correctly, he instructed the commissioners to take legal action if differences in their data are found.

He said that there is a shortage of ASHA workers in the city and it needs to be hired immediately.

According to the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, there are 74,477 active COVID-19 cases in Karnataka and the death toll in the state is at 2,594. 

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June 30,2020

Mangaluru/Kasaragod, Jun 30: In what appears to be an ego clash between the officers of Karnataka and Kerala, around 150 Mangalureans including 12 pregnant women were evicted from the lodges in Kasaragod in the middle of the night and sent to Mangaluru.

Expressing shock over the incident, Mangaluru MLA U T Khader hit out at the authorities concerned for the lack of concern towards the stranded passengers. “If IAS officers don’t have humanity, what is the use of the IAS tag. Officers in the two states should learn to speak to one another and solve people’s problems,” he said apparently addressing DCs of Kasaragod and Dakshina Kannada. 

The 150 passengers had arrived on Saturday from Dubai in a chartered flight arranged by the Karnataka Cultural Foundation. The flight landed in Kannur after it was denied permission to land in Mangaluru.

But Karnataka’s nodal officer for stranded persons outside India C N Meena Nagaraj, an IAS officer, called up Kerala officials and questioned why the flight was allowed to land in Kannur, Khader said. She reportedly told Kerala officials that the passengers should be quarantined in the cities of arrival and that Karnataka would not take them in.

In the meantime, the Karnataka Cultural Foundation arranged seven buses to take the passengers to Mangaluru. By the time it was conveyed to them that they would not be allowed to enter Mangaluru, the buses had reached Kasaragod district. The representatives of the organisation made frantic calls to several political leaders. Congress leader and district panchayat standing committee chairperson Harshad Vorkady said he got a call for help around 10pm on Saturday. He spoke to owners of three lodges to accommodate them. The lodges were used by the district administration as quarantine centres. 

The lodge owners said they would take the passengers in only if the Kasaragod tahsildar gave permission. “So I called up the tahsildar. He only wanted to know who will pay for the lodging and food. When I told him that the passengers will pay, he gave permission. By midnight, all the passengers were put up in the three lodges,” he said. The police were also at the spot, he said.

According to the Covid protocol, those arriving from abroad should be in institutional quarantine for seven days and in room quarantine for another seven days. But by 4pm on Sunday, the police returned to the lodges and asked the passengers to vacate. They said it was the order of the collector. They produced the order to the lodge owners. The office-bearers of the Karnataka Cultural Foundation said they sought time from the Kasaragod police to arrange rooms in Mangaluru. But Kasaragod police denied it. 

On Sunday, there were Covid deaths in Mangaluru and the Mangaluru deputy commissioner was tied up as residents were objecting to the funeral of one of the victims. “By night, the police started threatening the lodge owners. The members of the Foundation said they would shift the passengers by Monday morning. But the collector would not listen,” said Harshad.

Around 11pm, the Kasaragod district administration brought in four KSRTC buses and sent all the 150 passengers to Mangaluru, he said. By 1am the buses crossed the Thalapdy border and Khader took over from there. But the MLA was livid with how officials treated the people. Collector Sajith Babu in a statement said his enquiry found that the tahsildar did not give permission to accommodate the passengers in Kasaragod lodges.

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August 7,2020

Bengaluru, Aug 7: Amid the rising number of COVID-19 cases in Karnataka, the state's health department issued fresh guidelines for the disposal of bodies of COVID patients.

"Although an increased risk of COVID infection from a dead body to health workers or family members who follow standard precautions while handling the body is unlikely, the lack of scientific data requires the utmost care to avoid the inadvertent spread of COVID-19 during these times," the statement from the health department's press release read, emphasising on the dignity of the dead and the religious and cultural tradition.

The 23-page press release elaborated on guidelines regarding testing, handling of dead bodies and other specificities in relation to the management of COVID-19 bodies.

"Testing should not be insisted in every case of death, but only when they have a recorded history of influenza-like symptoms. The body should be handed over to the family members/ relatives in a dignified manner immediately after swab collection and hospitals should provide handouts with a list of dos and don'ts in English and Kannada laying down relevant information," the statement said.

It added, "At the mortuary, health care workers, mortuary staff and the family of the deceased body shall not come in direct contact with the dead body and must wear full personal protective equipment (PPE). If the family or relative are for any reason unable to cremate or bury the body, the local health authority shall arrange for the dignified last rites as per the religious traditions of the family."

Regarding autopsies (post mortem) on COVID-19 bodies, the state department said that they should be avoided, except in necessary circumstances.

The statement also gave detailed guidelines regarding the appropriate recording of COVID-19 deaths in line with the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) guidelines.

Additionally, the health department made a statement about the admission procedure for COVID positive patients referred by other district administrations saying, "It is now mandatory for all the referrals from the BBMP admission and discharge of COVID positive patients to be done through the online COVID Hospital Bed Management System (CHBMS)."

The state's count of coronavirus cases was 1,51,449 in the past 24 hours.

So far, a total of 2,804 people have died due to COVID-19 in the state, while the average recovery rate in Karnataka is 49.3 per cent.

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