London: After taking down Aung San Suu Kyi’s portrait and withdrawing the honour “freedom of Oxford”, her name from the title of prestigious Oxford Junior Common Room is removed due to her inability to condemn human right crises against Rohingyas in Myanmar. Students of St Hugh’s College, where A

When Dr. Abdul Qadeer, an engineer by profession, had begun teaching 17 students in one room in in Bidar district – the northernmost part of Karnataka – in 1989, he would have even imagined that his effort would take the shape of an education revolution. The institute set up in a room with an aim of

"The marriage of ugly girls, who otherwise would have gone without a partner, is made possible by offering (a) heavy amount of dowry." Supporters of dowry think it provides this important advantage, says the author who penned the words above. And believe it or not, the page that contains them was

Jio will raise the prices of its Rs. 399 Dhan Dhana Dhan plan to Rs. 459 as part of the tariff revision the company had promised last week while announcing its Diwali cashback offer. Gadgets 360 has learned that the new Jio 459 plan will provide users with 1GB of high-speed data per day for 84 days,

PATNA: As a 9-year-old girl died at Patna AIIMS while her poor father completed the formalities for her treatment and an official posted at the counter refused to help him, the opposition RJD on Wednesday demanded a high-level probe into the matter. Raushan Kumari, suffering from high fever for s

Richmond: Barack Obama is returning to the political arena for the first time in months after keeping a low profile and avoiding direct confrontation with his White House successor. The 56-year-old former president is scheduled to attend campaign rallies in New Jersey and Virginia today to suppor

Bhatkallys News Bureau Hubli 18 Oct 2017: Ravi Kumar (24) son of local BJP leader Laxman Korlapati died on the spot after he was electrocuted when tying a banner to the electricity poll on Wednesday in Keshwapur police limits. Keshwapur police rushed to the spot and sent the body for post mort

Bhatkallys News Bureau Mangaluru 18 Oct 2017: A CCB police team led by CCB Inspector Sunil Naik arrested 7 people for possessing Ganja drugs in Mangaluru on Tuesday 17 Oct. The police team was supervised by higher police officials including City Police commissioner TR Suresh after getting tip off

A team of court commissioners, lawyers, police and members of a cows protection NGO, which had gone to check illegal abattoirs at Yelahanka New Town here, was attacked by a mob. The team members were “heckled, chased, attacked and the windowpanes of police vehicles smashed” by the mob yesterday afte

BENGALURU: In a major breakthrough in the murder of journalist Gauri Lankesh, Bengaluru cops have released a photo of one of the suspects on a bike. The Special Investigation Team, with the help of a lab in the US, got a grab of the suspect enhanced to the maximum possible level. This photo ha

LONDON: An Indian-origin teenager has become one of Britain’s youngest millionaires after his online estate agency business got valued at 12 million pounds in just over a year. Akshay Ruparelia, at just 19 years of age, juggled his school work with negotiating property deals for his no-frills bus

New Delhi [India]: A minor fire broke out in a room at Prime Minister’s Office (PMO) in the wee hours on Tuesday. The blaze was reported in room number 242, located on the second floor, at around 3.35a.m. “At around 3.35 a.m we got a call in our control room that a fire broke out in PMO’s offi

Bengaluru: At least six persons were killed and some others feared trapped when a two-storeyed building collapsed due to a suspected LPG cylinder blast near Ejipura in the city on Monday, the police said. Bengaluru Development Minister KJ George has announced a compensation of Rs 5 lakh each to n

BENGALURU: Four apps that help provide last mile connectivity to Metro commuters of Baiyappanahalli and Swami Vivekananada (S V Road) Metro stations were launched by Bangalore Metro Rail Corporation Limited (BMRCL) on a pilot basis at the S V Road Metro station on Saturday. They were developed by th

Chandigarh: A Chandigarh court today charged Vikas Barala, the son of the Haryana BJP chief, and his friend Ashish Kumar with stalking and attempting to kidnap a senior IAS officer’s daughter, Varnika Kundu, in a case that had triggered widespread outrage and a spate of protests. The two had chas

DAMMAM — The employment of Saudi women in the Traffic Department (Muroor) is under active consideration of a high-level ministerial committee constituted to carry out studies about the necessary arrangements to implement the royal decree allowing women to drive. The committee comprises representa

New Delhi: Fifty-one prominent personalities in an open letter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, urged him to not forcibly deport the asylum seeker Rohingya Muslims. The list of signatories includes, Congress MP Shashi Tharoor, former Home Minister P Chidambaram, academic Nivedita Menon and actres

Allahabad: The Allahabad High Court on Thursday acquitted Rajesh and Nupur Talwar in the murder of their teenage daughter Aarushi and their domestic help Hemraj in 2008. The verdict ends a nine-year ordeal of the parents who were found guilty by a CBI court of murdering 14-year-old Aarushi in a f