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13th cruise vessel calls at New Mangalore Port

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March 8, 2012

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Mangalore, March 8: Cruise vessel M V Seaboourn Legend with 190 cruise passengers and 173 crew members called at New Mangalore Port on Thursday.

This is the 13th cruise vessel calling at the Port during the current financial year 2011-12.

The vessel came to NMPT as its first port of call from Indonesia and sailing out to Goa later in the evening and from there to Mumbai Port.

Majority of the passengers were from USA & UK. 134 passengers have opted for ground tour arranged by M/s Lia Travels, Mangalore, the local tour operators.

The passengers have visited places like cashew processing unit at Bykampady, 1000 Pillar Jain temple, Moodabidri, Soans Farm, monolithic statue of gomateshwara, at Karkala, Gokarnanatha temple, Kadri temple, St. Aloysius chapel, etc.

M/s J.M. Baxi & Co. are the agents of the vessel. Another 14 passengers have disembarked at the port and opted to go by air to Delhi and Agra and will be boarding the same vessel at Mumbai. Being the First Port of Call, arrangements were made for immigration by the local officers duly authorised by the Bangalore Immigration Authority.

Dr. P. Tamilvanan has stated that this cruise liner is in her repeated 3rd call to NMPT during the current financial year. 4 more vessels are scheduled to call during the last week of the current month. A giant cruise vessel M.V. BRILLIANCE OF SEA with 3000 passengers and 1200 crew is also expected to call at the Port on 1st April 2012 which will be the largest cruise vessel ever calling at the Port. This giant vessel having a length of 298 metres is again expected to call at NMPT on April 12, 2012.

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June 28,2020

Mangaluru, June 28: Three fresh deaths in last 24 hours have taken the total number of covid-19 deaths in Dakshina Kannada district to 13.

While a 31-year-old youth from Idya in Surathkal and a 57-year-old woman from Bantwal passed away last night, a 52-year-old woman from Jokatte breathed her last today. 

The youth from Suratkal breathed his last in Wenlok. The woman from Bantwal’s Loretto Padav village was unwell for last 1 year. She was tested positive three days ago and passed away at a private hospital. 

The woman from Jokatte was reportedly suffering from tuberculosis. On June 26, she was admitted to a private hospital in the city, where she was tested coronavirus positive.

As per the district health bulletin on Saturday June 27 evening, a total of 12,919 samples have been sent for tests till date, out of which 12,198 have turned out negative, and 576 positive, including 10 persons from other districts. 

Out of these, 148 are currently active. As many as 416 persons have recovered and been discharged.

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July 12,2020

Tumakuru, Jul 12: A four-year-old boy was killed by a leopard at Rajendrapur hamlet at Hasige Hobli village near Huliyurdurga in Kunigal taluk.

Police said on Sunday that this was the third such attack by big cats in the district in a span of six months.

Forest officials said that the boy had gone with his mother to wash clothes at a tank and the animal attacked him while playing there on Saturday late evening. 

A passerby who witnessed the incident scared the animal, it escaped leaving the boy’s body behind.

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April 10,2020

Kasaragod, Apr 10: The death of five cats in the general hospital-turned-Covid-19 isolation centre here recently has evoked a little bit of scare among the health authorities who are eagerly awaiting the viscera test results of the dead animals.

The death of the cats has evoked anxiety in the backdrop of a tiger in a zoo in United States tested positive for Covid-19 recently.

It was recently that the hospital authorities had noticed the death of the cats, which include two male and a female adult and two kittens, were long been seen in and around the hospital compound.

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