Couple of weeks back a dead cobra or Naag was found underneath some stores and spares in our leaf spring processing section. Here in Dakshina Kannada district cobras are held in great reverence. And so a purohit was called right then to cremate the cobra under full Hindu rituals. And today was the bojja day or the 12th day when they held this maha ( Read more... )

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AG's audit was an annual audit of our company's CENVAT [formely Central Excise] acct by the CAGs office. Their job was to see if the local Excise officials had correctly monitored our unit and if duty evasion had not taken place. Typically 3 or 4 people would come for 3 or 4 days, with advance notice to keep all our documents ready ( Read more... )

Last Friday we took a rickshaw home since my car battery had died. The car was safe and sound in the Bharath Mall under ground parking. We informed the security guy and went to the rickshaw stand. The first rickshaw guy very predictably said he would not travel towards my destination, and when I growled where else he would, he averted my gaze and ( Read more... )

Even as the Suratkal - BC Road NH-17/48 4 lane work was gradually creeping along, the contract for the Suratkal - Kundapur NH-17 4 lane road works was announced. Last November when I travelled to Manipal for the TAPMI home coming the work had indeed started but they had only started scratching the surface. But when we travelled yesterday to Shirali ( Read more... )

Yesterday evening I was returning home via PVS Junction where I spotted couple of cops who were either questioning or ticketing a bike fellow. A yell away at Besant junction another cop reads my number and asks me to pull over. I do so and the question marks around my face are very obvious and he asks "Where you speaking on the mobile?" "No I wasn' ( Read more... )

Mangalore crash: Hearing reveals huge safety lapses
In this article NDTV in horror says that the ATC chaps walked into their work station only at 6AM while the plane touched down a mere 2 minutes later. Something quite impossible since even the parking attendants arrive at their work stations much before that time.

The last 30 minutes of the plane ( Read more... )

Mangalore Diary: Highrises, malls & beautiful Bunt womenBy D P Satish ( Read more... )

The list of no shows on today's flight that crashed in Mangalore.

36. Merwyn D’ Souza (No Show)
51. Vasantha Shetty (No Show)
58. Thresiamma Philip (No Show)
59. Mohamed Ashfaq (No Show)
60. Husna Farheen (No Show)
71. Sanjeeva BabannaHegde (No Show)
76. Louiscarlo Vincent Geraro (No Show)
99. Steven Rego (No Show)
136. Kunhikannan Chandu (No

Air India Express Flight 812 from Dubai to Mangalore crashed today morning at Mangalore Airport after overshooting the runway. Reports say 6 pax survived while about 160 are feared dead.http://www.daijiworld.com/