MANGALURU: State government has appointed chief of city police units in Karnataka as the member secretary of the District Police Complaints Authority functioning out of police commissionerates in the state. Accordingly, M Chandra Sekhar, police commissioner, Mangaluru city police will be the member

ISTANBUL: Turkey and Saudi Arabia could launch a ground operation against Daesh terrorists in Syria, the Turkish foreign minister said Saturday, adding the Kingdom was already sending jets to a Turkish base to attack the extremists. The coordinated plans by Riyadh and Ankara, who are pursuing an in

WASHINGTON: The United States said it had approved selling up to eight Lockheed Martin F-16 fighter jets to Pakistan, along with training, radar and other equipment, worth a total of $699 million. The Defense Security Cooperation Agency, which coordinates such foreign arms sales, said it had inform

A college student died after drowning in Waldevi dam while taking a 'selfie' and his friend who jumped into the water to save him died too, police said today. Ten college students went for a picnic to the dam near Ghoti in Nashik district yesterday, Wadivhare police station in-charge Manohar Pati

At a time when several government schools are being shut and those still functioning are seeing high drop-out rates, primary school teachers have seen a need for restructuring the free and compulsory education system. Teachers have urged the government to include pre-primary education as part of

InFocus has launched a new budget smartphone in India, the InFocus Bingo 21, priced at Rs. 5,499. It is available to buy from online stores in Blue, White, and Orange colour variants. The smartphone is listed on the company's own website as well. The dual-SIM supporting InFocus Bingo 21 runs on A

February 13, 2016 | Bhatkallys News JHARKHAND: Nafees, a woman born blind has given hopes to other physically challenged people. A blind school teacher from India’s Jharkhand, Nafees has surprised everyone by transcribing over thousand pages of Quran in Braille script, the BBC News Hindi reported

بھٹکلیس نیوز ؍ 13 فروری، 16 جھارکھنڈ؍ (ایجنسی) جھارکھنڈ کے ایک اسکول میں ہندی سکھانے والی اندھی ٹیچر نے قرآن مجید کا ہندی ترجمہ اندھوں کے سمجھنے والی زبان (بریللی) میں قرآن مجید کا ہندی ترجمہ کردیا ہے۔ چار سالوں کی محنت سے نفیس ترین نے اس اہم ترین کام کو انجام دیا ہے۔ نفیس کے مطابق پہلے پہل جب

Bihar BJP vice president Visheshwar Ojha was today shot dead by unidentified assailants in Bhojpur district while returning from a wedding. Ojha, who had unsuccessfully contested Assembly election in 2015 from Shahpur constituency, was fired by gunmen when he was returning after attending the 'ba

The United Arab Emirates and the Republic of India have issued a joint statement at the end of the three-day state visit of His Highness Shaikh Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi and Deputy Supreme Commander of the UAE Armed Forces to India, during which he held talks with the P

Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi is in India on a three-day visit which is expected to take the ties between the two nations to a new high. Breaking protocol, PM Modi received Mr Al Nahyan at the Delhi airport. President Pranab Mukherjee will also host a special lunch fo

MUNICH: Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev raised the specter of a “permanent war” or a “world war” if powers failed to negotiate an end to the conflict in Syria and warned against any ground operations by US and Arab forces. Medvedev, speaking to Germany’s Handelsblatt newspaper on the eve o

Scientists announced Thursday that, after decades of effort, they have succeeded in detecting gravitational waves from the violent merging of two black holes in deep space. The detection was hailed as a triumph for a controversial, exquisitely crafted, billion-dollar physics experiment and as confir

Siachen avalanche survivor Lance Naik Hanmanthappa Koppad breathed his last on Thursday morning after battling for his life for two days at the Army’s Research & Referral (R&R) hospital in New Delhi. Six members of the Dharwad soldier’s family, including mother Basamma, wife Mahadevi and

Rents of one-bed apartments in Bur Dubai have risen by 70 per cent between 2011 and 2015, while rentals in Deira jumped by 86 per cent during the same period, reveals data released by Asteco, a real estate consultancy. Average rentals in the above two communities stood at Dh73,000 per annum (pa)

وسائل کی کمی کا بہانا کرتے ہویے ریلوے آئندہ بجٹ میں مسافر کرایوں میں 5 سے 10 فیصد تک اضافہ کرنے کے امکانات پر غور کر رہا ہے. ریل کی وزارت کے ذرائع نے بتایا کہ مسافر کرایوں اور گوڑس ٹرنوں سے ہونے والی آمدنی میں کمی اور 7 ویں پے کمیشن کی سفارشات کو لاگو کرنے پر پڑنے والے 32،000 کروڑ روپے کے اضافی ب