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Pakistan: Suicide blast rocks Lahore's Mall Road, 16 including 2 senior cops killed

At least 16 people, including two senior police officers, were killed and nearly 40 were injured when a suicide bomber struck a public demonstration in Pakistan's Lahore city on Monday evening. DIG (Traffic) Syed Ahmed Mubeen and Senior Superintendent of Police Zahid Gondal were persuading protes

“RECITATION OF QURAN GIVES ME PEACE OF MIND” – TRS MLA, REKHA SHYAM NAYAK

Hyderabad, Feb 13 2017: TRS MLA of Khanapur (Adilabad), Ajmeera Rekha Shyam Nayak organized Quranic recitation program at her residence. The program started with the recitation of Quran by Sara Khan. Ms. Rekha also recited Quranic verses with respect. A large number of ladies and girl students atten

Bhatkal Man, who was in coma for nine months in Saudi finally back to India

BENGALURU: Family members of Makde Abubakar, 40, who was in a coma for more than nine months at a hospital in Saudi Arabia, finally got to see him on Friday. Notwithstanding all their efforts to woo the Indian Embassy to lend them a helping hand, the family could not see him or pay the bill, amou

500-KG EGYPTIAN WOMAN REACHES MUMBAI FOR WEIGHT LOSS TREATMENT

Mumbai: 36-year-old Eman Ahmed, one of the heaviest women in the world, today landed here for weight reduction treatment at a local facility. Eman, who travelled to India in an EgyptAir plane, landed at Mumbai international airport around 4 am. Eman, who has not moved out of her house for 25 year

11 INCLUDING KIN OF BJP CORPORATOR ALLEGEDLY SPYING FOR ISI, ARRESTED

BHOPAL, Feb 10,2017 ( Siasat): Madhya Pradesh police’s anti-terror squad (ATS) has arrested 11 persons for allegedly running an international call racket that helped Pakistan’s ISI to spy on India’s military operations. A relative of a ruling BJP councillor is among those arrested. MP ATS chie

TEACHER WINS BERLIN COMPENSATION CASE OVER MUSLIM HEADSCARF

Berlin, Feb 10,2017: A German court has ruled that a teacher who didn’t get hired by a Berlin elementary school because she was wearing a Muslim headscarf will receive 8,680 euros (USD 9,250) in compensation for discrimination. A higher labor court judge said today that wearing the headscarf woul

Karnataka High Court denies bail to Abdul Saboor of Bhatkal

BENGALURU: Indian Mujahideen’s member, who had allegedly conspired with others to carry out series of blasts across the country during the then US President Barack Obama’s visit to India in 2015, was denied bail by the Karnataka High Court. The accused who were involved in a number of terror a

Majlis-e-Islah wa Tanzeem President meets Minority commission chairman

Bhatkallys News Service Bhatkal 09 February 2017: Majlis-e-Islah wa Tanzeem President Muzammil Kazia today met Karnataka minority commission’s chairman Naseer Ahmed in Bengaluru. During the meeting Muzammil Kazia invited Naseer Ahmed to Bhatkal, while he also put forth some of the major proble

Karwar: Mobile Vans to keep Air pollution in check

Bhatkallys News Service Karwar 09 February 2017: District Deputy Commissioner (DC) today inaugurated a new set of vehicles here which will be deployed in the town to check the Air Pollution emitted by the public vehicles. The mobile vehicle jointly run by RTO and state air pollution check departm

Alleged 9/11 mastermind wrote to Obama saying the terror attack was America's fault

The alleged mastermind behind the September 11, 2001 attacks on the US twin towers, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed wrote a letter to the former US President Barack Obama in 2015 accusing America of bringing the attacks on itself. Mohammad called the attacks a "natural reaction" to America's "destructive pol

Bhatkal: Mooosa Nagar gets new 63 KV transformer after complaints of low-voltage by residents

Bhatkallys News Service/ Rizwan Gangavali Bhatkal 08 February 2017: A new 63 KV transformer in being installed in Moosa Nagar Bhatkal by HESCOM after local residents complained of low voltage of the electricity supply in the area. Earlier, locals had approached Panchayath and HESCOM officials

LS passes bill to make holding of old notes punishable

New Delhi, Feb 7,2017: The Lok Sabha today passed a bill which makes holding of more than 10 old notes of Rs 500/1000 denomination punishable with a minimum fine of Rs 10,000, with the government saying the aim was to check parallel economy using the scrapped notes. Piloting the Specified Bank No

Bhatkal: Two fishing boats sank, loss of 30 lakh reported

Bhatkallys News Service/Rizwan Gangavali Bhatkal 07 February 2017: An estimated loss of more than 30 lakh Rupees has been reported by local boat owners Yashwant Masti Moger and Laxman Shaniyar Moger after two fishing boats owned by them capsized in the rough seas off the coast here on Monday. The

Bhatkal: Graveyard cleaning by Majlis-e-Islah wa Tanzeem, Sunshine sports club lent support

Bhatkallys News Service/Rizwan Gangavali Bhatkal 07 February 2017: Majlis-e-Islah wa Tanzeem and Sunshine Sports Club came together on Monday (06 Feb) to clean the graveyards of the town located at Ghousia street here. Youngsters from Sunshine Sports club lent their full support to Ashfaque KM

Video: Man attempted to immolate himself besides holy Kaaba, arrested

DUBAI: Saudi security forces at the Grand Mosque in Makkah on Monday succeeded in preventing a man, who is attempting to set himself ablaze beside the holy Kaaba. According to Al-Alarabiya reports, the man identified as Saudi national and in his 40s, was dousing himself in gasoline to immolate

Kingdom surfing on waves of change, 10000 Saudi women trained for mobile repair

Riyadh: More than 10,000 Saudi women have received mobile phone repairing training to improve the employment chances of females, the media reported on Monday. The free training was provided by the Technical and Vocational Training Cooperation to 10,769 female students studying at 19 collages in d

Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose’s bodyguard Colonel Nizamuddin passes away; all you need to know about the Azad Hind Fauj soldier

New Delhi, Feb 6: Colonel Nizamuddin, former driver and bodyguard of Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose, passed away on Monday morning. Colonel Nizamuddin was 116. According to reports, Colonel Nizamuddin alias Saifuddin, will be laid to rest in afternoon after Zuhar namaz. Colonel

Bhatkal Telephone exchange to migrate to Next Generation Network (NGN)

Bhatkallys News Service BHATKAL: BSNL customers in Bhatkal will soon get better quality connectivity with the Exchange migrating to Next Generation Network (NGN) shortly, said N.M. Shaikh, deputy general manager (A &P), CPIC, BSNL, Karwar. Next generation Network (NGN) is a versatile platform