Two young children and their mother from Shankerpura who had gone to Dubsi to spend a month’s summer vacation with their father tragically became the victims of one of the worst air crashes in recent history of Indian aviation on Saturday, 22 May 2010 early morning, when Air India Express
Lalaji R. Mendon, the MLA from the Kaup Constituency paid a visit to the homes of the victims of the Air India Express crash-Pravin Shettigar, Ignatius D’Souza and Cavin Sequeira in the afternoon of Saturday, 22 May 2010 and consoled the members of the bereaved families.
Ignatius D’Souza of Manibettu became the third unfortunate victim of the Air India Express Tragedy from the neighbouring regions of Moodubelle, Cavin Sequeira of Marne and Pravin Shettigar of Mattar being the other two victims.
Pravin Shettigar, who was working in an office at Dubai was specially coming to attend the inauguration and housewarming of the new house of his sister Jayashree on Saturday and Sunday, 22 and 23 May and the marriage ceremony of his brother Bhaskar on Wednesday 26 may 2010.
In the horrendous crash of the Dubai-Mangalore Air India Express in the early morning of 22nd May 2010, the 16 year old young student from Marne, Cavin Sequeira, son of Charles and Benedicta Sequeira of St John the Baptist II Ward was tragically killed.
It is indeed a great joy for a couple to celebrate the landmarks in their married life following the grand wedding celebration. Thus, anniversaries such as tenth anniversary, silver jubilee, golden jubilee and even diamond jubilee and beyond are the occasions to be celebrated with children and family members.
It seems that worst is over as the dreaded Cyclone Laila weakened ahead of landfall about 30 km from Bapatla in Guntur district on Thursday, 20 May 2010 afternoon. In spite of this the cyclone left 16 people dead
During my recent visit to Muscat, I had an opportunity to view one of the most elegant and exquisite monuments of the Sultanate of Oman, the Grand Mosque of Muscat also known as the Sultan Qaboos Grand Mosque which is located by the main road between Muscat and Seeb.
The political battle on the curious case of parliament attack convict Afzal Guru’s mercy petition file continues. The Sheila Dikshit government sent back the file on Afzal Guru’s mercy plea to Delhi Lieutenant Governor (LG) Tejinder Khanna on Wednesday, 19th May 2010
The patron saint of this Ward, St. Paul popularly known as the ‘Apostle of the Gentiles’ was originally named Saul and was born at Tarsus. He belonged to the Jewish community and as a young man persecuted Christians. It is said that he even took part in the stoning of St. Stephen, the first Christian martyr.
Several places in Andhra Pradesh began experiencing heavy rainfall and strong winds in the wake of the severe cyclonic storm, named as Laila, that lay in the Bay of Bengal, about 180 km off the Chennai coast.
Konkani Kullvar. Kuwait, a Forum of Konkani Writers who resides in Kuwait, will be organizing One Day Workshop on Friday, 28th May, 2010. The theme of the Workshop will be `The Konkani Literature – Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow’.
We, the Mangaloreans working in Israel are fortunate that we got to see all the Holy Places which we used to hear and read in the Bible. Last Sabbath (weekend in Israel) on 15th May 2010, on a very hot day we planned to visit Jericho, Masada and the Dead Sea.
In yet another daring attack, Moists (Naxalites)have blown up a civilian bus in Dantewada district around 4:30 on Monday, 17th May 2010 killing about forty persons including several security personnel and Special Police Officers (SPOs).
The eagerly awaited results of  the recently held election to the Belle Grama Panchayat were declared to day, Monday, 17th May 2010 at around 1 pm. The counting of the votes polled on 8th May 2010 were counted today at the TMA Pai English Medium School, near MGM College from 8 am and results were declared by 1 pm.Â
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