Second flight to Mangalore from Dubai with stranded Indians to land on May 18: DK DC
Mangaluru: The second flight carrying stranded Indians from the UAE to Mangaluru under the Vande Bharat Mission will land at the Mangalore International Airport on Monday, May 18.
The information was shared by Dakshina Kannada Deputy Commissioner, Sindhu B Rupesh while she was addressing a press conference here in the city on Friday.
Speaking at the press conference the DC added the information about the passengers boarding the flight and details about which Districts they belong to were not immediately available but confirmed that the passengers will be sent to quarantine at their own expense.
She also spoke about the issues raised by passengers who arrived on May 12 on the first flight from UAE to Mangaluru adding that they were caused inconveniences at the airport and added that she took up the issue with the Airport Director and that steps will be taken to not cause inconveniences to the passengers arriving on the next flight.
Meanwhile, she also urged the passengers to cooperate with the District Administration and Airport officials on their arrival.
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A strong magnitude 6.1 earthquake shakes Indonesia's Java Island, felt in Jakarta
Jakarta, Apr 27: A strong magnitude 6.1 earthquake shook the southern part of Indonesia's main island of Java on Saturday, but there were no immediate reports of injury or significant property damage.
The U.S. Geological Survey said the quake struck 102 kilometers (63 miles) south of Banjar city at a depth of 68.3 kilometers (42.4 miles). There was no tsunami warning.
High-rises in the capital Jakarta swayed for around a minute and two-story homes shook strongly in the West Java provincial capital of Bandung and in Jakarta's satellite cities of Depok, Tangerang, Bogor and Bekasi. The quake was also felt in other cities in West Java, Yogyakarta and East Java province, according to Indonesia's Meteorology, Climatology and Geophysical Agency.
The agency warned of possible aftershocks.
Earthquakes are frequent across the sprawling archipelago nation, but they are rarely felt in Jakarta.
Indonesia, a seismically active archipelago of 270 million people, is prone to seismic upheaval because of its location on major geological faults known as the Pacific “Ring of Fire.”
A magnitude 5.6 earthquake in 2022 killed at least 602 people in West Java's Cianjur city. It was the deadliest in Indonesia since a 2018 quake and tsunami in Sulawesi killed more than 4,300 people.
In 2004, an extremely powerful Indian Ocean quake set off a tsunami that killed more than 230,000 people in a dozen countries, most of them in Indonesia's Aceh province.
