Mangaluru: Two held for assault on youth at Ucchila beach

January 13, 2017

Mangaluru, Jan 13: Two persons have been arrested by Ullal police in connection with the assault on a youth at Ucchila beach under their jurisdiction in Mangaluru taluk.

Iqbal The arrested are Guru (25) and John (30), both residents of Ucchila. It is said that they were among the six miscreants who came in two motorbikes and attacked Iqbal when he was playing volleyball with his friend Mansoor recently.

One of the accused, Guru, has claimed that Iqbal had insulted him and his girlfriend during their visit to Ucchila beach on January 11. Hence he came back with his friend John and four others to take revenge against Iqbal.

After the attack, Iqbal is recovering at a private hospital in Deralakatte. A tense atmosphere had prevailed in Uchila area following the attack. However, the arrest of two miscreants has brought the situation under control.

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If it was the other way round, people like Kateel would have been on street disturbing peace by making comments like \setting fire\" etc

Muslims are always peace loving people"

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166 stranded in UAE reach Mangaluru

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June 23,2020

Mangaluru, Jun 23: A charter flight carrying as many as 166 people including a child stranded in United Arab Emirates today reached Mangaluru.

The flight was chartered by M Friends Charitable Trust, Mangaluru and My Community Foundation with the sole intention of helping the repatriation of stranded passengers such as pregnant women, elderly people and those who are in need of emergency medical care.

The flydubia flight FZ4617 took off from Dubai at 2 p.m. and landed at Mangaluru International Airport at 7:22 p.m.

The passengers who arrived from UAE hail from different parts of coastal Karnataka and passengers themselves had borne the ticket fare for their travel.

M Friends president Haneef Haji Goltamajalu has thanked representatives of My Community Foundation and M Friends Trusty Ashraf Abbas Kunjattur, M Friends NRI leader Haneef Puttur, general secretary Rasheed Vittla for their efforts in chartering the flight.

In the last three weeks, 13 special flights with around 2150 passengers from various Gulf countries had landed at Mangaluru airport.

Already, throat swab samples of 1814 passengers, who had arrived in Mangaluru, have been tested and 239 people with international travel history have tested positive and the samples of 1,575 passengers have tested negative so far.

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Thousands of letters lying undelivered in Dakshina Kannada post offices due to lockdown

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March 27,2020

Mangaluru, Mar 27: Thousands of letters are pending at various Post offices in Dakshina Kannada for delivery since declaration of lockdown due to Corona virus which is spreading like wildfire in the country.

Of the 542 offices in the district, only eight are functioning and the only post office opened in the district facilitates only withdrawal of funds by the customers, district senior official said here on Friday.

There are in all 53 departmental offices and 96 branch offices in Mangaluru Taluk and about 4,000 general postcards and 1,000 Registered and Speed Posts are pending for delivery. Also, there are a total of 393 post offices in the Puttur division and only a few are opened. About 48 postal bags are pending and there are about 200-300 postcards in each bag.

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