Technical snag forces Doha-bound AIE flight to return to Mangaluru

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September 21, 2017

Mangaluru, Sept 21: A Doha-bound Air India Express flight from Mangaluru carrying 170 passengers was forced to return to Mangaluru International Airport due to a technical glitch, about 45 minutes after getting airborne.

The aircraft made an emergency landing safely at the airport and there was no harm to any passenger or crew, an Air India Express official said. The aircraft is being inspected by the airline's team of engineers, the official added. The flight is now rescheduled for Friday at 5.30 am.

"The flight, IX 821, departed from Mangaluru for Doha at 5.40 pm. However, when it was mid-air, the pilot detected some technical snag and decided to take back the aircraft to Mangaluru," the official said. There were 170 passengers on-board the Boeing 737-800 plane.

Air India Express is making arrangements to fly the stranded passengers to their destination, the official said.

The passengers have been given the option of either boarding the rescheduled flight or get the full refund or reschedule their journey at a later date. Those who have opted for Friday's flight have been provided with hotel accommodation and other facilities, he added.

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Flight landed safely with out any casualties to any onboard passengers was only the result of all passengers sincere Dua prayer. And nor because of airinidia express or from its team. The incident only because of poor managements failure of maitenance and no other reason. Alll passengers have full right to claim against their difficulties.Stand together n file a case against this organizationa. Last month one incident was occurred in our neighboring state. Seems this organization looking for a guineas book record.

Am saluting Mangaloreans for their courage for preferring such airlines regularly.

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SC notice to MP Prajwal Revanna on plea challenging his Lok Sabha win

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June 4,2020

New Delhi, Jun 4: The Supreme Court on Wednesday sought response from Prajwal Revanna, the grandson of former Prime Minister HD Deve Gowda, on a plea challenging his election in 2019 from Hassan Lok Sabha constituency as a joint candidate of the Janata Dal Secular and the Congress.

A bench of Chief Justice SA Bobde and Justices AS Bopanna and Hrishiksh Roy issued notice to the returned candidate from the high-profile constituency on an appeal challenging the Karnataka High Court's order by which an election petition against his win was dismissed.

In the proceedings held through video-conferencing, the top court issued notice and tagged the appeal filed by G Devarajegowda for hearing with other similar pending plea filed by the BJP candidate on the issue.

Mr Devarajegowda in the plea said that his election petition was dismissed by the High Court on "procedural irregularities". The plea said that Mr Prajwal had resorted to unfair and corrupt practices and his election should be set aside.

It said the High Court did not consider the fact that by dismissing the election petition, it was running a risk of having a representative in parliament who has not got the maximum number of valid votes.

The petitioner, an advocate by profession, sought a declaration of rival BJP candidate, A Manju, as the winner for having secured the maximum number of valid votes.

A separate appeal was earlier filed by Mr Manju against the High Court order and the top court had already issued notice to the retuned candidate on that.

Mr Manju had challenged the 2019 election of Mr Prajwal on the ground that there was allegedly non-disclosure of assets held by him in his election affidavit.

Mr Prajwal was declared winner with 6,76,606 votes. Mr Manju came first runner-up with 5,35,282 votes.

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Karnataka govt ups its surveillance, containment measure against spread of coronavirus

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March 15,2020

Bengaluru, Mar 15: The Karnataka government on Saturday issued a statement saying that surveillance and containment measures against the spread of coronavirus have been increased in the state.

"In the wake of coronavirus scare, 104 Arogya Sahayavani (call centre) has reserved 20 lines for receiving calls for COVID-19," read the statement.

It also read that the dedicated seating at the 104 call centre has been increased to 40 and one person form 108 call centre will be responsible for coordinating with the ambulance services.

The statement also read that the government had arranged an orientation for the medical college staff to train them to deal with coronavirus patients.

While six people from the state were reported positive of coronavirus, the Union Ministry of Health, one amongst them was a 76-year-old man from the Kalaburagi region and he died due to co-morbidity.

The state Health Department Commissioner has said that the Telangana government has been notified about the man's death as he was also admitted to a hospital there.

So far, 84 people have been infected with COVID-19 in India.

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