Mangaluru: A Tulu Nadu boy was one among the brave soldiers who successfully gunned down terrorists in Jammu and Kashmir recently.

The young soldier Zubair, the second son of Samoon Byari and Aminamma couple, hails from Neranki  of Bajattur village in Kadaba taluk was a part of the team who were successful in striking down the militants. 

Zubair pursued his education at the government higher primary school at Haleneranki and secondary education at Sri Ramakunjeshwara. He later completed his PUC and BBM courses at St Philomena College.

It may be recalled here that two Lashkar-e-Taiba(LeT) militants were killed by security forces in Srinagar's Karan Nagar area on Tuesday after a gunfight of nearly 30 hours that had started after a failed attack bid on a Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) camp in Kashmir.

Zubair has uploaded a video of the operation on his Facebook wall, which has gone viral. In social media platforms, Zubair has earned a lot of appreciation for the successful operation.

However, it is a matter of pride for the coastal region that our boy was a part of the team which gunned down terrorists.  

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Hyderabad (PTI): The South Central Railway on Saturday announced that it would run four special trains to manage the surge in passengers resulting from the large-scale cancellation of IndiGo flights here.

The move comes as flyers face significant disruption and long queues at the airport due to the cancellation.

A press release from the SCR said it is running the special trains to clear the extra rush of passengers to Chennai, Mumbai and Shalimar (Kolkata) from Hyderabad today.

Meanwhile, as many as 43 outbound Indigo flights were cancelled from here on Saturday, Rajiv Gandhi International Airport sources said.

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Similarly, 26 incoming flights are also likely to be cancelled during the day, they said.

The flight cancellations drew ire from passengers, who thronged the IndiGo counters at the airport demanding to know the exact situation.

“This is utter nonsense! Digiyatra done, message received that departure has been rescheduled ahead of the scheduled departure and now upon arriving at Hyderabad airport coming to know at the security checkpoint that Indigo flight is cancelled,” Tarun Singha, former Ministry of Defence spokesperson said in a post on X.

“But the thing is if you don’t shout they do nothing. Example at Hyderabad Airport, there was no staff no flight information for an hour. Then a fellow passenger started shouting on mic and an Indigo staff appeared finally,” a netizen said in a post.

On Friday, when IndiGo cancelled over 1,000 flights from across airports, its CEO Pieter Elbers apologised in a video message for the major inconvenience caused to passengers due to the disruptions.

In the one-way video communication, Elbers also said that the airline was expecting fewer than 1,000 flights on Saturday.