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 60^th 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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Help poor, needy by not cutting their salaries: Karnataka CM

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April 4,2020

Bengaluru, Apr 4: Karnataka Chief Minister B S Yediyurappa has appealed to employers not to cut salaries of their maids, servants and drivers who are unable to attend work due to the current lockdown situation in the country.

He said compassionate gesture of employers will support the poor and needy.

"I request all the employers not to cut salaries of their maids, servants, drivers etc., who are not able to work due to social distancing. Your compassionate gesture will support the poor and needy to overcome this hard time. FightBackKarnataka CoronavirusPandemic," the Chief Minister said in a tweet.

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What benefit govt is giving us so that we can transfer the same goodness to our workers? Or are the funds only to buy and sell MLA?

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‘We had expected only 1 lakh, but 3 lakh people assembled to protest CAA, NRC’

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January 18,2020

Mangaluru, Jan 18: The Muslim Central Committee of Dakshina Kannada and Udupi has claimed that around 3 lakh people had gathered at Shah Gardan, Adyar-Kannur in Mangaluru on January 15, even though their expectation was just 1 lakh people.

The protest against CAA, NPR, NRC and police atrocities against minorities was jointly being organised by the various Muslim organisations of twin district under the leadership of Muslim Central Committee.

“We had just expected around 1 lakh people. But the Mangaluru witnessed the largest gathering in its history on Jan 15. Around 3 lakh people had participated in the protest,” Ibrahim Kodichail, vice president of the committee told media persons today.

K S Mohammed Masood, president of the committee, added that the event was a grand success and fretful, besides being peaceful. He wholeheartedly thanked all those who strived hard to make the protest a great success and to those who had taken part in it.

“At least 28 organisations have come together. As a result 3 lakh people assembled. I thank all those organisations,” he said.

He also opined that police too had helped to maintain law and order and cooperated with the protesters at the venue.

SM Rasheed Haji, B M Mumtaz Ali, Syed Ahmed Basha Thangal, Kasim Ahmed H K and Mansoor Ahmed Azad were present at the press meet among others.

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Six persons admitted to isolation wards in Udupi

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April 8,2020

Udupi, Apr 8: Six patients were admitted to isolation wards in the hospitals in the district on Tuesday.

While four people were suffering from symptoms of COVID-19, two were suffering from SARI (Severe Acute Respiratory Infection).

As many as 19 samples were collected and sent for Covid-19 testing to a laboratory in Shivamogga.

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