Bhatkallys News Service/ Rizwan Gangavali Bhatkal July 21, 2017: The Marikamba festival of Bhatkal came to an peaceful end on Thursday after it was disbursed into the Karila sea shore in the evening. People started queuing up at the temple early in the morning for performing pooja, and later i

JEDDAH: Despite the ongoing Gulf crisis, the Kingdom welcomes all those from Qatar who wish to perform Haj and Umrah, the Saudi Ministry of Haj and Umrah said. The ministry added that they can perform pilgrimages at any time, despite the Anti-Terror Quartet (ATQ) — of which Saudi Arabia is a part

A 25-year-old IT engineer bled to death after his motorcycle was hit by an unidentified vehicle near Indrayani corner on Wednesday evening. None of the passers-by in the area came forward to help the profusely bleeding man, identified as Satish Prabhakar Mete; instead, they clicked pictures and took

Israeli police said they were barring men under 50 from entering Jerusalem’s Old City for Friday Muslim prayers as tensions rose over new security measures at a supersensitive holy site. “Entry to the Old City and Temple Mount will be limited to men aged 50 and over. Women of all ages will be per

NEW DELHI: Mukesh Ambani’s Reliance Industries, whose digital arm, Jio, had caused revolution in data connectivity when the company offered unlimited free data to its customers last year, has now announced it will provide free smartphones to its customers. Speaking at the 40th AGM, the RIL chairm

The Kerala BJP on Thursday expelled a party leader for allegedly taking a bribe of Rs 5.6 crore from a businessman by promising to help a hospital in Varkala obtain medical college status. The matter came to light when the findings of an internal probe conducted by the party’s state unit were lea

Dubai:  A double-decker plane from Dubai with hundreds of passengers on board nearly collided with another aircraft recently when it was descending to land at an airport in Mauritius. Emirates'  Airbus A380-800 (flight EK-703) was making its descent when an Air Seychelles Airbus A330-200, which w

Dubai: Taxi fares in Dubai are among the world's most affordable, according to a new index. The Carspring 2017 Taxi Price Index, published on Tuesday, compares the cost of taxi rides in 80 of the world’s most popular cities, in which Dubai stood at No. 5 among the cheapest fares — from the airpor

Mumbai: The Shiv Sena today expressed concern over recent incidents of violence in the name of ‘gau raksha’ and asked where were these self-appointed ‘cow saviours’ when terrorists targeted Amarnath pilgrims in Kashmir recently. Even Prime Minister Narendra Modi is facing the heat over the issu

New Delhi: Critical of the government’s handling of Jammu and Kashmir, the Congress today demanded that it take the nation into confidence and spell out the steps being taken to bring normalcy in the state. Rejecting the government’s claim that the situation in Jammu and Kashmir had improved, t

Manama: Half of the Kuwaiti men supposed to sign up for the mandatory military service have failed to register their names, prompting the authorities to initiate legal and punitive action against them. According to the defence ministry, 2,300 Kuwaitis were supposed, under the new rules, to regist

New Delhi: Almost one year after she was moved out of the high profile Human Resource Development ministry, Smriti Irani has made a comeback. The Union Textile Minister has been given additional charge of the Information and Broadcast Ministry in place of Venkaiah Naidu who resigned after emergin

A powerful earthquake of magnitude 7.8 off Russia's Kamchatka Peninsula triggered a tsunami warning but the threat has now passed, the US Geological Survey and US Pacific Tsunami Center said. The quake struck at 11:34 am on Tuesday (2334 GMT on Monday) some 125 miles (200 km) from the city of Nik

New York: The Department of Homeland security of the US said on Monday, the government is allowing 15,000 additional visas for temporary seasonal workers to help American businesses in danger of suffering irreparable harm as a result of lack of labour. US Secretary of Homeland Security John Kelly

LUCKNOW: The Uttar Pradesh government has fixed a target to provide jobs to 70 lakh people in five years, Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath said on Saturday. "UP is a state with immense possibilities.... We have fixed a target of providing jobs to 70 lakh people in five years, of which 10 lakh jobs

NEW DELHI: Controversial Islamic preacher Zakir Naik, wanted in connection with alleged terror funding cases, has been served with a show cause notice by passport authorities asking him why his travel document should not be revoked. Fifty-one-year-old Naik, who was issued a notice last week, has

Social media users in Kuwait are buzzing about a Bengali cleaner who worked as a doctor at the ministry of health using forged papers and by impersonating a Kuwaiti doctor who left the country in 1982. The news surfaced when Kuwaiti lawyer Hani Hussein tweeted that in the next few days “a Kuwaiti

uscat: After a year of austerity that witnessed companies freezing hiring if not firing employees, this year will witness most companies hiring in different sectors, according to data by HR agencies. Nearly 75 per cent of the companies in the Sultanate plan to recruit new employees this year as t