DHNS | January 13,2016 Bangaluru -- The KSRTC, which registered a profit of Rs 114.95 crore in 2015-16, has prepared a roadmap to increase passenger convenience despite an expected slump in revenue due to demonetisation and hike in diesel price. Transport Minister Ramalinga Reddy told journalist

بھٹکلیس نیوز / 13 جنوری، 17 بنگلورو / (نامہ نگار) بنگلورو کے باپوجی نگر میں رہنے والی ایک لڑکی اپنے والد کے سامنے خود کشی کا ناٹک رچانے کے دوران اپنی جان سے ہی ہاتھ دھو بیٹھی ہے۔ اطلاع کے مطابق کیرتنا نام کی یہ لڑکی پی یو سی میں زیر تعلیم  تھی اور کئی روز سے گھر دیر سے آرہی  تھی۔ اس تعلق سے جب اس

BENGALURU: Over 35,000 SC/ST students of higher education courses will get free laptops from the next academic year under the ‘Laptop Bhagya’ scheme for which the Higher Education Department is spending Rs 112 crore. The department decided to provide free laptops to SC/ST students in government e

Beirut: A suicide bomber killed at least eight people in a high-security district of Damascus on Thursday, a monitor said. “Eight people died when a suicide bomber targeted Kafr Sousa” in the southwest of the capital, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said. “At least four of them were so

Dubai: Thick fog caused visibility to drop to less than 50 metres in most parts of the UAE on Thursday morning, delaying more than a hundred flights and causing accidents. Abu Dhabi, Dubai, Sharjah and some western areas experienced extremely poor visibility on Thursday morning, forecasters from

The attack on doctors at the ICU of Chigateri district hospital in Davangere on Wednesday has yet again highlighted the vulnerability of medical professionals despite the laws meant to protect them. Although the State government has put in place the Karnataka Prohibition of Violence against Medic

BENGALURU: How toxic is Bengaluru’s air? It was ranked 63rd among 168 cities for PM 2.5 levels in 2015-16 by a report — titled ‘Airpocalypse’ — on air quality. Tumakuru was ranked 67th. New Delhi, which has been in the news for dizzying levels of air pollution, was ranked first. But other cities

Hashim Amla made a century in his 100th Test as he and J.P. Duminy put South Africa in command on the first day of the third and final Test against Sri Lanka on Thursday. South Africa reached 338 for three at the close of play, with Amla unbeaten on 124 at the Wanderers Stadium. Duminy made 15

The High Court of Karnataka on Wednesday restrained the city police from interrogating Siddartha H.M, advocate, without prior permission from the court. In October last year, the police found ₹1.97 crore in Mr. Siddartha’s car while he was entering the Vidhana Soudha. Giving liberty to the police

Writer and critic G. Rajashekhar has rejected the Karnataka Sahitya Academy award announced on Tuesday, owing to “continuing atmosphere of intolerance” in the country and in the State. Mr. Rajashekhar, who is recovering from ill health at a private hospital here, told The Hindu that many writers

Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) does not consider the upcoming launch of 103 satellites on a single PSLV rocket a record-making feat. Its aim is rather to maximise the launch vehicle’s carrying capacity and returns per launch, ISRO chairman A.S. Kiran Kumar said here on Wednesday. As ma

Team India coach Anil Kumble paid a glowing tribute to Mahendra Singh Dhoni, who stepped down from limited-overs captaincy last week, and said one of the highlights of his leadership tenure was the apt handling of senior players in the team. Dhoni became India’s captain in all formats when Kumble re

SO HYPERBOLIC have been his achievements and the plaudits that’ve followed them in the last few months that it’s understandable if many thought Rishabh Pant was ‘too good to be true’. That yes, he had scored all those runs and that too at a breakneck pace, but he still couldn’t be that good could he

ISLAMABAD, PAKISTAN:  Pakistan has cautioned members of Missile Technology Control Regime (MTCR), a 35-member elite grouping that includes India and controls export in high-end missile technologies, that introduction of "destabilising systems" like "missile defence programmes" and "inter-continental

Kolkata: Sourav Ganguly today said that he has not thought about his future plan as yet after the Lodha Panel made it clear that he will have to serve a compulsory ‘cooling off’ period of three years after June if he wants to become an office bearer of the BCCI or the state units. “I have not tho

Riyadh: Saudi Arabia and Lebanon agreed Tuesday to hold talks on restoring a $3-billion military aid package, opening a “new page” in relations, a Lebanese official source said. “The blockage is lifted,” said the official in the delegation of Lebanese President Michel Aoun, who held talks over lu

WASHINGTON: Donald Trump’s Secretary of State pick Rex Tillerson has said he does not support blanket travel ban against Muslims even as he asserted that the US must win the war against Islamic terrorists not just on the battlefield, but in the war of ideas. “I think what’s important is that we a

Asaduddin owaisi tweet on Saudi Arabia increased hajj quota, Owaisi has now demanded that the subsidy given to Muslim devotees be allotted for girls’ education. Through a tweet, Owaisi – a prominent Muslim leader and AIMIM’s Hyderabad MP – had welcomed the SA government’s decision and expressing