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Vayalar Ravi, Moily to attend diamond Jubilee Celebration of Mangalore Airport on Sunday

March 11, 2011

Mangalore, March 11: Vayalar Ravi, Union Minister for Civil Aviation and M Veerappa Moily, Union Minister for Law and Justice will be attending the Diamond Jubilee Celebration of Mangalore Airport which will be held on March 13 at St Aloysius High School Auditorium, here.

Revealing this to media persons here on Friday, K Thejomaya, Coordinator of Diamond Jubilee Celebration Committee said the celebration would mark the 60th anniversary of the historical event of December 21, 1951 when then Prime Minister Jawaharalal Nehru inaugurated the Airport by flying from New Delhi to Mangalore.

Nalin Kumar Kateel, J Krishna Palemar, N Yogish Bhat, Oscar Fernandes, DV Sadananda Gowda, Abhayachandra Jain and others will also participate, he said.

He said as part of the celebrations, a serious of programmes through out the year including a seminar on “Indian Aviation and Tourism- Opportunities and New Directions”, rural sports meet, cultural extravaganza of school children, college students and women, national seminar on “Innovation in the construction of Airport and Mangalore as an International Airport”, state level sports (Kabaddi, weight lifting) will be held.

The valedictory function will be held on December at Kenjar New Terminal Airport.

Pascal Pinto, NRI, Kuwait and Prabhakaran Shriyan were present at the press meet.

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Deputy SP Ravi Nayak and his team stopped the vehicle at Narendra village, in the outskirts of the city and found out that they were from Uppina Betagiri village returning from a wedding function using government pass issued for medical reasons.

The police seized the vehicle and sent them to KIMS hospital for a medical check-up. Their swab samples have been collected and sent for testing. The police have asked them to go for a compulsory home quarantine for 14 days.

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May 10,2020

Shimoga, May 10: Karnataka Chief Minister B S Yediyurappa was all praise for a nine-month pregnant nurse, who is still attending to work at a Covid-dedicated hospital in the state, braving all odds in the wake of novel coronavirus pandemic.

Roopa, a resident of Gajanur, works at the Sri Jayachamarajendra Taluk Hospital in Tirthahalli.

The Chief Minister called the nurse up and admired her sense of duty after he came to know that she has been turning up at the hospital despite being in the advanced stage of pregnancy.

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February 23,2020

Bengaluru, Feb 23: As India gears up to welcome Donald Trump on his maiden visit to the country, a kite artist flew a special 15-feet long kite to welcome the US President.

VK Rao, an international kite artist from Karnataka, crafted the special kite, which included the photographs of both Trump and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, with the messages 'Namaste Trump' and 'Welcome to India'.

Speaking to ANI, Rao said: "We have created and flown this special kite to welcome the US President. The kite is 15 feet long."

Earlier, an Amritsar-based kite maker in Punjab had designed special kites to welcome Trump.

"As Donald Trump will be visiting India, so I have made some kites to welcome him. There are kites with pictures of PM Narendra Modi and Donald Trump," said Jagmohan Kanojia, the kite maker.

Preparations are on across the country to welcome Trump, who is scheduled to visit India on February 24 and 25.

During the visit, Trump is scheduled to participate in a roadshow with Prime Minister Narendra Modi and will address a gathering at the Motera stadium.

On Monday evening, the President and his family will be visiting the Taj Mahal in Agra.

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