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Mangalore-Dubai flight strengthens Jet Airways' presence in Gulf'

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December 26, 2012

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December 26: Jet Airways is all set to introduce new flight service between Mangalore-Dubai from January 3, 2013. With this, the international airline will fly six times a week on the Mangalore-Dubai sector.

 

Speaking about the same, Sudheer Raghavan, Chief Commercial officer, Jet airways said that the new Mangalore-Dubai service will provide a much needed link between the chief port city of Karnataka and Dubai, catering to the large number of Indians settled in the United Arab Emirates.

 

“The introduction of this new service, the first from Tier II Indian destination to the Gulf, will further strengthen Jet Airways' presence in the Gulf,” said Mr Raghavan adding that the additional services from Mangalore will now complementthe airline's existing Gulf operations to Abu Dhabi, Bahrain, Dubai, Doha, Kuwait, Muscat and Sharjah, along with Jeddah, Riyadh and Dammam from several cities in India.

 

He said that the airline will deploy a Boeing 737-800 aircraft with 170 Economy seats on this route, offering guests warm service and delectable cuisine.

 

“The new flight 9W 532 from the port city of Mangalore will depart at 20:00 hrs and arrive Dubai at 22:30 hrs (Local Time) on Mondays, Wednesdays, Thursdays, and Sundays.  On the return leg, flight 9W 531 will depart Dubai at 23:30 hrs (LT) on Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays and Sundays, and arrive Mangalore at 04:30 hrs (LT) next day,” said Mr Raghavan adding that on Fridays, flight 9W 532 will depart Mangalore at 19:00 hrs and arrive Dubai at 21:30 hrs (local time). On the return, flight 9W 531 will depart Dubai at 22:30 hrs (LT) and arrive Mangalore at 03:30 hrs (LT) the next day. On Tuesdays, flight 9w 532 will depart Managalore at 19:40 hrs and arrive Dubai at 22:10 hrs (LT).

 

Jet Airways currently operates daily direct flights to Dubai from Delhi, and four services a day from Mumbai.

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July 1,2020

Mangaluru, July 1: Even as the number of covid-19 positive cases is mounting with every passing day in the region, the Dakshina Kannada district recorded three new deaths due to coronavirus within 24 hours. 

According to sources, a septuagenarian from Bhatkal breathed his last on Wednesday afternoon. He was suffering from diabetes, high blood pressure and battling respiratory illness and pneumonia. His swab was collected and sent for test and the result came as positive.

Earlier in the day, two people had died in Mangaluru due to covid-19: A 31-year-old youth from Bhatkal and a 78-year-old man from Bengre in the city.

The coastal district has witnessed seven deaths from Sunday due to coronavirus.

The 31-year-old man, who was battling health issues due to high blood pressure, breathed his last at a private hospital. His swab was collected after his death. The report came as corona-positive.

The elderly man from Bengre was suffering from diabetes and pneumonia. He passed away at a private hospital.

With this, the total number of death of covid patients in the district reached to 17. Among them two people died due to non-covid reasons.

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Mangaluru, Mar 14: About 80 centres to check people for fever, cold, cough and other symptoms related to the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) have been set up in the city, health officials said here on Saturday.

According to sources in district health department, apart from the testing centres at Wenlock District Hospital and Lady Goshen hospital, six centres in community health centres, 66 in primary health centres (PHC) and four in the taluk hospitals have been opened for people to get themselves checked if they show any COVID-19-related symptoms.

Two other testing centres are already working at the city’s airport and seaport.

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Police said that the arrested persons are Manjunath Nayak, a resident of Derebail; Denzil Mascarenhas, a Konchady resident; Ashok Naik, a Derebail resident; Vikas Nayak and Vishwanath Naik both residents of Bengaluru were arrested.

The arrested were employed in the ‘Speak and Group’ concern, started by Dhanush M K of Kundapur along with his friends. The firm had managed to collect huge sums of money from people, including NRIs by promising monthly four percent returns on their investment. The employees managed to entice people by showing them a few insurance schemes claiming higher returns.

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