To the eternal credit of our founding matas and pitas in the constituent assembly, they refused to replace India with Bharat despite pleas by some members. The BJP’s call today to make the chanting of ‘Bharat Mata ki jai’ the test of patriotism is not a way of upholding the constitution but of undoi

JEDDAH: To encourage Saudization, public drivers’ visas will no longer be issued to expats. This is the agreement reached between the Labor and Transport Ministries as part of efforts to ensure Saudization in the industry, according to a press report. The ministries also agreed that a study sh

PTI Photo New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s assertion at the national executive meet of the Bharatiya Janata Party that all leaders should only focus on and speak about issues of “vikas, vikas and vikas” (development, development and development) appears to have been nullified by the poli

The Department of Pre-University Education (DPUE) on Thursday said the re-examination for II PU Chemistry paper will be held on March 31, instead of March 29 as announced earlier. The re-exam will be held between 9 am and 12:15 pm. The department rescheduled the dates after a high-level meeting c

March 25, 2016 | Correspondent | Bhatkallys News Bhatkal: Anjuman Institute of Technology and Management in Bhatkal in cooperation with QSpiders Bangalore organized jointly a campus placement session in AITM's seminar hall on Thursday. 18 students from various colleges in Bhatkal were selected at

March 24, 2016 | Correspodent | Bhatkallys News Bhatkal: A special souvenir compiled by BhatkalNews.com on the life and services of late Maulana Abdul Bari Nadvi (renowned Islamic Scholar, ex-Principal of Jamia Islamia Bhatkal and ex-Imam of Jamia Masjid Bhatkal) was launched  Tuesday evening at

March 24, 2016 | Correspondent | Bhatkallys News Dubai: Elections for new office bearers of BMJD were held in Dubai after which office bearers for the new term were selected, informed sources in Dubai. Mohammed Ashfaque Sada has been elected as President for the new term while Maulana Irshad A

Law states any hours worked in excess of the ‘normal hours’ shall be treated as overtime The UAE Labour Law clearly states the legal rights of an employee when it comes to the number of hours that s/he is expected to work during a week. Work time in the UAE is set at 48 hours a week, and off

NEW DELHI: Resisting the Supreme Court's suo motu decision to test the legal validity of triple talaq in Muslim personal law, the All India Muslim Personal Law Board (AIMPLB) has said that the country's top court has no jurisdiction to undertake the exercise as the community's personal law was bas

March 22, 2016 | Correspondent | Bhatkallys News Bhatkal: Bhatkal celebrated the United Nations' World Water Day; to put emphasis on sustainable water for the future. On this occasion, Bhatkal's Judge said that human beings can survive without food but they cannot survive without water. He exp

BRUSSELS: A series of explosions ripped through Brussels airport and a metro train on Tuesday, killing around 35 people and injuring more than 200 in the latest attacks to rock Europe. Security was tightened across the jittery continent and transport links paralyzed after the bombings that Belgia

RIYADH: The government will impose a penalty of SR15,000 each on the sponsor and visitor who overstays his visa in the Kingdom. Gen. Sulaiman Al-Suhaibani, Riyadh Region director of passports, said that such a host will be prevented from traveling abroad, and the overstaying visitor will not be all

Srinagar: The documentary film ‘Children in Conflict Torn Kashmir’ produced by human rights activist Abdul Manan Bukhari was screened on the sidelines of the 31st Session of the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) in Geneva, Switzerland. The documentary, which highlights the extraordinary

The re-examination for students of second year PU chemistry paper that was leaked, will be held on March 29 between 9 am and 12:15 pm. The decision by the Department of PU Education (DPUE) on Tuesday came even as nearly 200 students and parents protested outside its office in Malleswaram, opposin

Around 1.74 lakh II PU students who wrote the chemistry exam on Monday will have to take the exams again as the Department of Pre-University Education (DPUE) has ordered a re-exam due to question paper leak. The date of the re-examination will be announced on Tuesday. The question paper leak was

March 22, 2016 | Correspondent | Bhatkallys News Bhatkal: The Bhatkal Additional Superintendent of Police Devraj has called upon the people to celebrate Holi peacefully on Thursday and Friday. Mr. Devraj held a peace committee meeting at Bhatkal Town Police Station ahead of the festival of Hol

The nationalism debate escalated today with opposition parties slamming BJP's 'insistence' on 'Bharat Mata ki jai' as the only way to express this as an 'unfortunate replay' of Hitler's tactics, prompting the ruling party to say opposing the slogan amounted to treason. The opposition parties also