The original name boards, prior to the Adani group taking over the handling of operations of the airport, have now been restored, social activist Dilraj Alva said.
In both instances, Air India Express pilots had overshot tabletop runways. Also, the flights were coming from Dubai.
With the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) virus spreading to more countries and two more confirmed cases reported in India, the seaport and airport in Mangaluru have been put under high alert, officials said on Tuesday.
Gold worth nearly Rs 10 lakh has been seized from a plane passenger who had arrived by an Air India express at the international airport in Mangaluru, sources in the Customs said.
The police team investigating the case of bomb planting at the international airport in Mangaluru on January 20, took suspect Aditya Rao to several places in the city where he had frequented in the past few months, police said on Wednesday.
The probe team, led by ACP K U Belliappa, sent the box to Forensic Science Laboratory for examination, police said. The man, a native of Manipal, had the locker at Kunjibettu branch of Karnataka Bank in Udupi.
The man suspected to have planted a bomb at the city airport was on Saturday taken to Udupi where he has a bank account and a few other places he had frequented in the past.
The bag containing possible explosive substances was found by a CISF official at the entry point of Mangalore airport on Monday. It was later defused by the bomb squad.
The suspect, before going to the airport, had two bags with him when got on to a bus from the bus stop near State Bank of India in Mangaluru and alighted at Kenjar airport stop.
A passenger aircraft of budget carrier Indigo to Hyderabad returned to Mangaluru airport after a bomb alert by the Air Traffic Controller, an official said on Monday.
A bag placed inside the Mangalore International Airport sent the police into a tizzy on Monday, sparking panic in the area. When the bag, spotted by a CISF official, was unwrapped, a low-intensity IED was discovered.
An alert has been sounded at the at Mangalore airport after IED components were found outside a terminal. Further details awaited.
Mangalore: A passenger from Dubai who arrived here last night was taken into custody at the Mangalore International Airport for carrying suspicious liquid, police said.The man belonging to Uppala in Kasaragod district in Kerala had
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