Fire in flight: 50 passengers including Minister Khader escape unhurt
Mangaluru, December 27: Total 50 passengers including Urban Development Minister UT Khader on board Jet Airways Bengaluru- Mangaluru flight on Thursday escaped unhurt after fire broke out inside the aircraft at the Kempe Gowda International Airport here.
The incident happened at 7 am when the Jet Airways flight was about to take off from the airport to Mangaluru. All the 50 passengers felt suffocating experience and suddenly, the aircraft crew members deplaned all the passengers safely.
Later, the crew put out the fire broke out inside the flight. At 8.45 am, the company has arranged alternative flight to all passengers including the Minister, sources said.
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CM Siddaramaiah quotes senior journalist B.M. Basheer's poem while presenting budget
Bengaluru: In a unique manner, Chief Minister Siddaramaiah quoted lines from a poem by B.M. Basheer, poet and News Editor of Vartha Bharati before the State Legislature on Friday.
Siddaramaiah, who was presenting the state budget for the current year, recited Basheer’s poem before announcing new initiatives on women and child development:
“Mother likes roses
For she knows
How difficult it is
To bloom among thorns”.
