Fr Peter S Noronha
MANGALURU: Former director of Father Muller Hospital, Fr Peter S Noronha, passed away here on Wednesday. He had suffered a massive cardiac arrest a few days was being treated at Fr Mullers Medical College Hospital. He was 85.
Hailing from Bondel, he was ordained as a priest on December 4, 1961. He served as assistant parish priest in Bajpe and Bejai parishes, and as parish priest at Katipalla, Udupi, Bantwal (Modankap) and Bendore parishes. He served as director of Father Muller Hospital from 1978 to 1988.
After his retirement, he served as the resident priest at Father Muller Homoeopathic Medical College. From June 1, 2020, he was residing at St Zuze Vaz Home, Jeppu.
Local people heard heard an explosion and saw thick smoke billowing out of the Catasynth Specialty Chemicals Limited in the MSEZ.
MANGALURU: A fire broke out at a speciality chemicals manufacturing unit within Karnataka s Mangalore Special Economic Zone (MSEZ) at Bajpe on Saturday afternoon, but there were no casualties, police said.
They said local people heard heard an explosion and saw thick smoke billowing out of the Catasynth Specialty Chemicals Limited in the MSEZ.
No casualties were reported, they said.
The operation to douse the flames is on by fire tenders from Kadri fire station, Mangalore Chemicals and Fertilisers (MCF), New Mangalore Port Trust and Hindustan Petroleum Corporation Limited (HPCL), police said.
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MANGALURU: Mangaluru city police have arrested six more persons of ‘Maya gang’ for conspiring to attack police personnel as a revenge for the 2019 Golibar, where two persons were killed and several injured during anti CAA/NRC protest.
Investigation also revealed the gang made a minor to consume tablets used for treating insomnia before committing crime. One of the accused is working in a medical shop and had access to scheduled ‘H’ drugs that cannot be sold without prescription. Two persons including a minor were arrested a few days after the incident.
It took place around 11.20am, on December 16, 2020, near New Chitra Talkies. Head police constable Ganesh Kamath was assaulted.