Mangaluru: Dakshina Kannada police foiled a bid by a murder accused who had been elusive for seven years and wanted to start a new life in Saudi Arabia. Superintendent of Police B R Ravikanthegowda said Abdul Rahiman, an accused in the murder of history-sheeter Santhosh alias ‘Candle’ Santhu which rocked Polali in 2009, was planning […]

Mangaluru : A woman from Vamanjoor, who was allegedly under house arrest in Dammam, Saudi Arabia, finally reached her hometown on Sunday. Vijaya, 43, had travelled to Saudi Arabia on July 15, 2015 in search of a job to assist her family in distress. She had an ailing unemployed husband and a teenaged son. But […]

Mangaluru: Mangaluru city police arrested Kulshekar based James D’Mello (35) on Saturday for cheating a Karkala taluk based woman, Jacintha Mendonca (46) on the assurance of job in the middle east. The accused reportedly made fake promise and assured the woman a home nurse job in Saudi Arabia with a monthly compensation of Rs 25, […]

Mangaluru: The three children of Jacintha Mendonca, a home nurse from Karkala in Udupi who was reportedly forced into slavery in Saudi Arabia, are looking forward to their mother’s safe arrival, after minister for external affairs (MEA) Sushma Swaraj directed the Indian ambassador in Saudi Arabia to bail her out. Late on June 23, MEA […]

Mangaluru : Two youths from coastal Karnataka, who were stuck in Saudi Arabia after they were forced to work in a farm without salary for nearly five months, are all set to return to India. Damodar Shettigar, 31, a native of Gandhinagar in Ganjimat, and Puneeth Jayaraj, 25, of Mulky near Mangaluru, who reached Saudi […]

Puttur: In an horrible road accident in Saudi Arabia on Friday three members of a same family from Puttur of Dakshina Kannada district were died when they were returning from Mecca after a pilgrimage by car. The deceased has been identified as advocate Vazeer Ahmed (35), his 10-month-old son Iyaan Abdurrehman, and Vazeer’s sister Khamrunnisa […]

Mangaluru: “The Central government is bound for the protection of Indian citizen who live in Saudi Arabia. External Affair Minister Sushma Swaraj is constantly in contact with the Saudi foreign affair Minister and the process of calling Indian’s back to the country is going on,” said BJP national minority morcha Vice-President Mohammad Irfan. Addressing the […]

Medina: The first batch of Huj pilgrims from India has reached Medina, Saudi Arabia on Thursday. Saudi higher officials and civilians welcomed the Huj pilgrims with great honour. Karnataka Cultural Foundation (KCF) volunteers also joined hands to welcome the pilgrims. Minister of state for external affairs, Gen V K Singh said that it is a […]

New Delhi: The government is making all efforts to bring back the 10,000 Indian workers rendered jobless in Saudi Arabia and is also providing them food in camps, External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj said in the Lok Sabha on Monday. She also said that Minister of State for External Affairs V.K. Singh will visit Saudi […]

Mangaluru : In a tragedy reported at Khaseem Road, Jubail, Saudi Arabia, a mother and son duo from Montepadavu near Ullal died after the car they were travelling by rammed into the divider on Sunday night. Two others sustained injuries and were admitted to Khaseem Central Hospital. The deceased have been identified as Khathijamma (50) […]