Mangaluru: A SpiceJet crew showing up for work in an inebriated condition at Mangaluru International Airport (MIA) resulted in flight SG-059 to Dubai leaving after over a 5-hour delay on Wednesday. The flight, scheduled to take off at 12.15am, finally left MIA at 5.45am after the airline arranged for a replacement crew. The 180-odd passengers […]

Mangaluru: Mangaluru-Dubai SpiceJet flight with around 180 passengers was delayed for over five hours. The flight, which was supposed to depart from the Mangaluru airport at 12:40am was took off at around 6 am after authorities made arrangements to replace the pilot. As per reports, a Turkish woman pilot who was to command the SpiceJet […]

Mangaluru: Mangaluru Regional Unit of Directorate of Revenue Intelligence seized 1166.500 gram gold bars with current market value of Rs.34, 17,845. The bars made up of 24 carat purity gold. Specific information received by this unit reveled that some passenger (whose identity was not clearly known) who had arrived by Spicejet Flight No.SG60 from Dubai […]

Mangaluru: Customs officials at Mangaluru international airport seized 1058 gram gold dust worth Rs 31, 31,689 and arrested Kasaragod native, Mohammed Rafik Moideen on Sunday. The accused is being questioned by customs officials’ in connection with illegal transportation of the yellow metal. The accused reached Mangaluru airport from Dubai carrying gold dust illegally. The customs […]

Mangaluru: A 2-year-old boy died after a boat capsized a Panamburu beach and the six other persons have been rescued by the boat crew, on Wednesday night. Mohammad Sadan is the deceased boy. Dubai returned Shamith had taken his family for outing and as a part of their outing they had reached Panambur beach. A […]

Mangaluru: In the month of September, Mangaluru International Airport customs officers have detected 18 cases of smuggling of contraband goods and recovered 1133.000 grams of gold, foreign currency equivalent to INR 12.74 lakhs and 236 cartons of foreign cigarettes having no statutory pictorial warning, totally valued over Rs.52 Lakhs. Dr M Subramaniyam, Commissioner of customs […]

Udupi: A Dubai returned man breathed his last in a collision between bike and a truck that took place on Tuesday evening, at Ganapanakatte, Moodubelle. Johnson D’Souza (28) of Moodubelle is the deceased person. The truck hit him on Tuesday morning. He was taken to the hospital immediately after the incident. He was seriously wounded […]

Mangaluru : Property belonging to underworld don Bannanje Raja has been seized by Enforcement Directorate (ED) on July 1. It is reported that property worth Rs 50 crore was seized by ED. ED has seized property of other three people also namely Amin Basha, Paul and his wife. ED officials have informed that the money […]

Mangaluru : The Customs officers at Mangaluru International Airport seized Foreign Currency value of 9000 Saudi Arabian Riyals, 23000 Qatar Riyals, 350 Omani Riyal, in various denominations, equivalent to Rs.6,13,068/- on Monday. The passenger Mohammed Ali hailing Nellikunnu,, Kasaragod during his departure from Mangaluru International Airport in the evening of Monday by Jet Airway flight […]

Mangalore : A 33-year-old man identified as Muhammad Khalid from Sasthana-Gundmi in Udupi district went missing as he left from Sasthana-Gundmi in Udupi district to Mangalore International Airport on April 17 at 5.30 am. It is learnt that Khalid was supposed to board a Dubai bound flight, but neither reached Dubai nor returned back home, […]