Bengaluru: About 20,000 youth across the country would be skilled by 2020 in apparel, made-ups and home furnishing sectors in collaboration with textile major Arvind Ltd, said Skill Development and Entrepreneurship Minister Ananthkumar Hegde on Thursday. “We have started skill training of about 1

Bengaluru: Senior woman Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officer K. Ratna Prabha on Thursday took over as Karnataka’s new Chief Secretary, replacing Subash Chandra Khuntia who retired on superannuation earlier in the day. A 1981-batch officer of the Karnataka cadre, Prabha is the third woman o

New Delhi: India needs to cherish and nurture its Muslim population that is integrated and considers itself Indian, former US president Barack Obama opened the day two of the Hindustan Times Leadership Summit 2017 in New Delhi on Friday said. It is an idea that needs to be reinforced, the former

Tiruvananthapuram: Hadiya’s father K M Ashokan is relentlessly trying to convert back his daughter as Akhila. He says that he is an atheist though his wife, Hadiya’s mother is a Hindu. K M Ashokan also said that “She is my only daughter, I will fight to the end. I can’t accept that my daughter ha

Politics may make people do things that they would not normally do. Politicians sometimes go to the extreme in an effort to stay in power and while sometimes they succeed in that attempt, they also fail a lot of times. Prime Minister Modi’s campaign in Gujarat is a clear example of political oppo

Bhatkallys News Bureau/ I. Zaorez Shabab Bhatkal 30 Nov 2017: The growing number of cases of robbery in town has created a sense of fear in the locals who are now hesitant to lock their homes even to go out for an hour or two, as the recent cases of thefts in the town has left everyone worrying,

The U.S. on Thursday warned Kim Jong-Un’s regime that North Korea would be “utterly destroyed” if a standoff over its missile tests leads to a war and asked all countries to sever economic and diplomatic ties with Pyongyang to punish it for its “acts of aggression”. Speaking at an emergency meeti

Whipped up by cyclonic storm Ockhi lurking off the coast, heavy rain and gale-force winds pummelled the southern parts of the State since Thursday morning, wreaking widespread havoc and bringing normal life to a halt. Squally winds uprooted hundreds of trees, snapped power and communication lines

NEW DELHI: Delhi’s State Tobacco Control Cell has urged the NCERT to incorporate a chapter on tobacco control in curriculums of the CBSE and other educational boards for classes 6 to 12. Additional director in the Health Department, Dr S K Arora, in a letter said 14.1 per cent students (up to age 15

New Delhi: Finance Minister Arun Jaitley on Thursday said achieving a 10 per cent GDP growth rate is challenging and will depend on how the world is moving. Speaking at the HT Leadership Summit here, he said India has done well by growing at 7-8 per cent during the last three years. To scale to 1

Myanmar: Pope Francis was on a visit to Violence-hit Myanmar and shared the stage with Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi in the capital city Naypyidaw. Though in his speech, Francis did not directly mention the name of Rohingya or alleged cleansing of minorities in the Buddhist dominated State, he

Panaji: Recital of prayers over loudspeakers at one of the largest Muslim burial grounds here banned by the city municipal corporation, it was revealed on Wednesday. The order drew protests from the Muslim community have demanded that the measure be withdrawn. Panaji Corporation Commissioner Ajit

Karachi: While formally announcing his retirement from all forms of cricket, Pakistan off-spinner Saeed Ajmal has lashed out at the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) for not fighting his case well with the International Cricket Council (ICC) following his suspension for an illegal bowling action. Thou

پنہوم، (کیلی فورنیا): ہندستان کی میرا بائی چانو نے 22 برسوں کےطویل انتظار کے بعد ویٹ لفٹنگ عالمی چیمپئن شپ میں پہلا سونے کا تمغہ حاصل کرکے ملک کا سر فخر سے بلند کیا ہے۔میرابائی نے خواتین کے 48 کلو گرام زمرے میں خطاب کی دعویدار تھائی لینڈ کی شونیا سوکچارون کو شکست دے کر طلائی تمغہ پر اپنا قبضہ جمایا

Bhatkallys News Bureau/ I. Zaorez Shabab Bhatkal 30 Nov 2017: Rama Naik, an auto driver sustained severe injuries when his auto-collided with a truck near TFC hotel on Thursday evening. According to the eye witnesses of the accident, the auto driver was coming from Shamsuddin circle towards TF

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Bhatkallys News Bureau/ I. Zaorez Shabab Bhatkal 30 Nov 2017: Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah, will visit Uttara Kannada district on December 6 Monday to inaugurate several Government Schemes and Programs approved in the district during his tenure as CM. Siddaramaiah is expected to arriv