Ballia: Hitting back at Rahul Gandhi, BJP leader Shahnawaz Hussain has said the Congress vice president is “afraid” of the women leaders in the BJP. Women are respected the most in the BJP and the party has maximum number of women legislators in Uttar Pradesh, he said reacting to the Congress lea

RAJKOT: A group of lions attacked a ‘gaushala’ and mauled as many as 15 cows within just 45 minutes. According to Times Of India, the unusual behaviour reported to have happened at Juni Vag haniya village near Bagasara town on Monday night in Bhaktidham gaushala which sheltered nearly 300 cows an

NEW DELHI: Sex with a wife below 18 is rape, the Supreme Court said today, ending an exception in the law for men married to girls who are above 15 despite the ban on child marriage. "If a man has sexual intercourse with a wife who is below 18 years, it is an offence. The minor wife can complain

Bhatkallys News Bureau Bhatkal 11 Oct 2017: Students of New Shams English Medium School Bhatkal and Shams English Medium School showed excellent display of intelligence at the Rural IT Quiz competition at Dharwad to bag secure Second and fourth place respectively. Of 555 teams that participate

Bhatkallys News Bureau/ Rizwan Gangavali Bhatkal 10 Oct 2017: Members Madina Welfare Society (MWS) on Tuesday held a meeting with Heble Gram Panchayath members at MWS office and discussed with them several issues that needs quick solutions. Primary issue that was raised during the meeting

A 21-year-old Chinese woman has been rendered partially blind after playing video game on her smartphone for 24 hours, the media reported. The unnamed gaming addict was reportedly playing the multi-player online game “Honour of Kings” when she suddenly lost vision from her right eye, the South Ch

Dubai International Airport has come up with a novel way for departing travelers to clear security: by walking through a virtual aquarium lined with facial recognition cameras. According to a report from The National, the virtual aquarium is shaped like a tunnel, and outfitted with 80 cameras tha

Lucknow: Around 300 students were taken ill today after inhaling toxic gas emitted by a sugar mill near their school in Shamli district, the police said. Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath has ordered a probe into the matter by Commissioner Saharanpur. The students of a private schoo

The Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur (IIT-K) has suspended 16 students for three years and six others for a year after they were found guilty of ragging their juniors, in the first decision of its kind in the history of the premier institution. The decision was taken by the IIT-K’s

ANKARA, Oct 9 (KUNA) -- Kuwait's Al-Salam Humanitarian and Charity Society inaugurated on Monday a factory for tailoring and handicraft works for Syrian women refugees in the town of Sanliurfa in Southeast Turkey. The large building was established and equipped with donations amounting to USD 600

Dammam- Middle East oil giant Saudi Aramco announced its most dramatic expansion so far with the opening of Aramco Asia India’s new office in New Delhi. India is the world’s third-largest energy-consuming economy. The State-run oil giant Aramco is in talks with several Indian refiners and hopes t

The UAEs Civil Aviation Authority has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with their counterparts in Bahrain to improve transport services between the two countries. Following a round of negotiations in Manama, Mohammed Thamer Al Kaabi, under-secretary of Bahrain’s Ministry of Civil Aviati

Sydney: Test batsman Usman Khawaja has said being racially vilified when he was growing up in Sydney led him to support other countries rather than back Australian sports teams. The Pakistan-born 30-year-old said in a blog post that racial abuse was widespread on the playing field during his juni

Guwahati: Staring at yet another series defeat, Australia's stand-in-skipper David Warner has said they are not demoralised and insisted on playing "Aussie brand of cricket" to bounce back in the three-match T20I series against India. Having suffered a 1-4 defeat in the five-ODI series, Australia

6 October 2017 – United Nations agencies are seeking more funds to cope with the mass exodus of people fleeing violence in Myanmar into Bangladesh, which the top UN aid official described the world's fastest growing refugee crisis. UN Emergency Relief Coordinator Mark Lowcock told reporters in Ge

A Sonepat court on Tuesday awarded life imprisonment to Lashkar-e-Taiba bomb maker Syed Abdul Karim alias Tunda for his role in 1996 Sonepat blasts. The court of additional sessions judge Sushil Garg also imposed a fine of Rs 1 lakh (Rs 50,000 each for conviction in two sections) on him. Tunda

Bengaluru: The Kempegowda International Airport (KIA) in Bengaluru is set to become India’s first completely Aadhaar-enabled airport, boasting of a biometric boarding system. The Bangalore International Airport Limited (BIAL), which ran a two-month pilot project has given its approval for the pro

Uniform rainfall across the city in the past two days led to the city recording its cleanest air day on Monday since June 2015, when air quality monitoring and forecasting began in Mumbai. The air quality index (AQI) — pollutant measuring indicator — was 35 for PM2.5 — particles smaller than 2.5