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No helmets yet: Pillion riders get 12-day reprieve in Mangaluru

MANGALURU: Though the helmet rule, which mandates that all riders and their pillions have to compulsorily wear the protective headgear, kicked in across Karnataka on Wednesday, Mangaluru riders will have 12 day breather. The rule will be enforced from February 1, says Mangaluru city Traffic Polic

Paris stresses Saudi peace moves

RIYADH: The Saudi leadership’s peace initiatives were praised by Laurent Fabius, French minister of foreign affairs and international development, at a joint press conference with Adel Al-Jubeir, foreign minister, on Tuesday. Fabius said he had met with Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Salman

2-day Tableegi ijtema organized in Bhatkal comes to conclusion

Jan 20, 2016 | Rizwan Gangavaly | Bhatkallys News Bhatkal:  The two-day ijtema (religious convention) organized by Tableeg Jamaat at a ground adjoining Ice Factory in Bhatkal concluded Tuesday. The convention began on Monday and witnessed participation from thousands of Muslims from nearby loc

Dissolvable wireless sensors monitor brain injury

An international team of researchers has developed a miniaturized wireless electronic device that can monitor temperature and pressure when implanted into the brains of mice, and then dissolve to be naturally resorbed into the soft tissue once they are no longer needed. Electronic implants are us

Arrest warrant issued for men filmed ‘dancing suggestively’ in UAE military uniforms

ABU DHABI // An arrest warrant has been issued for two men who appeared in a video dancing while dressed in UAE military uniform. In the short video, that was broadcast on social media, the men wear military fatigues and dance suggestively and in a manner unworthy of the uniform, said Abu Dhabi P

China offers support for Yemen government as Xi visits Saudi Arabia

China has signaled its support for Yemen's government, which is fighting an Iran-allied militia, on the first day of a visit to Saudi Arabia by Chinese President Xi Jinping, who will also be heading to Tehran later in the week. A Saudi-led coalition began a military campaign last year against the

World's oldest man Yasutaro Koide dies aged 112 in Japan

The world's oldest man has died at the age of 112 in the Japanese city of Nagoya, local officials say. Yasutaro Koide, who was born on 13 March 1903, was officially named the oldest man by Guinness World Records in August this year. At the time he was quoted as saying his secret to long life w

Malicious intent to present Rohith Vemula suicide as a caste battle: Smriti Irani

Breaking her silence on the suicide of a young research scholar at Hyderabad University last Sunday, HRD Minister Smriti Irani said Wednesday that the incident was being misrepresented with “malicious intent” as a “caste battle”. “I am compelled to come out today because there has been a maliciou

Selfie Turns Fatal For Rajasthan Tourist In Jaipur

Jaipur: The craze for a selfie turned fatal for a 23-year-old tourist to the Mehrangarh Fort in Rajasthan's Jodhpur city on Tuesday, police said. The man named Nikhil was trying to click a selfie on Tuesday evening when he fell down from the ramparts of the fort in Jodhpur, over 350 km from Jaipur.

'نازیبا سلوک' کی وجہ سے فلایٹ سے ایک ہی خاندان کے 4 افراد کو اتار دیا گیا

کوچی سے ممبئی ہوتے ہوئے احمد آباد جانے والی انڈگو کی پرواز میں بڑا عجیب واقعہ ہوا. اس واقعے کی وجہ سے ایک ہی خاندان کے چار افراد کو ایئر لائن نے ممبئی میں ہی اتار دیا. بتایا جاتا ہے کہ کوچی سے احمد آباد جانے کے لئے سنجے جان، ان کی بیوی ٹینا جان، نوزائیدہ بیٹی جوهانا اور ٹینا کی ماں نیتو انڈگو پرواز

حاجیوں کی واپسی کے لیے ایک اور سہولت

سعودی وزیر حج نے حاجیوں کو خوشخبری سناتے ہوئے کہا ہے کہ زائرین کی رہائش کا انتظام کرنے والی کمپنیاں ہی اب ان کی منزلوں پر سامان پہنچانے کی ذمے دار ہوں گی۔ سعودی وزیر حج بندر الحجار کا کہنا ہے کہ ایک نئے نظام کے تحت زائرین کے تیز رفتار اور آرام دہ سفر کے لئے ان کا سامان اب مقامی کمپنیوں کی ذمہ دا

Twin accidents claim 2 lives, severely injure 2 in Bhatkal

  January 20, 2016 | Correspondent | Bhatkallys News Bhatkal: Two people died and two more were injured critically in separate road-related accidents on Tuesday evening, sources informed. A elderly woman, identified as Lukma (68) of Chikbalapur died after she was struck by a lorry on T

Why Emirates ID card can freeze your UAE bank account, disconnect phone

Remember, once you get your work visa and Emirates ID card renewed, submit copies to your bank and telecom companies. Non-submission can result in freezing of your bank account and disconnection of your phone. “Your Emirates ID is expiring, please submit the renewed Emirates ID at the base bra

HC to govt: Take a call on dissolving BBMP

Pulling up BBMP on Tuesday, the high court suggested the govern ment take a call on dissolving the civic agency and appoint an administrator to run its affairs instead. A division bench headed by acting Chief Justice Subhro Kamal Mukherjee made this suggestion while wondering how was it that the

Protest escalates in Hyderabad varsity

Protests against the death of 26-year-old Dalit research scholar Rohith Vemula intensified at the University of Hyderabad here on Tuesday. While the four other Dalit students who were expelled from the hostel continued their struggle for the 16th day by sleeping outside, many students joined in t

KSRTC logs in 25k seats online per day

Karnataka State Road Transport Corporation’s seat booking on the web has hit a new high with number of seats booked per day crossing 25,000. The revenue from the web booking is now around 20 per cent of the total traffic revenue. As many as 2,000 seats are being booked per day through mobile appl

بی جے پی اور آر ایس ایس ملک کی یونیورسٹیز چلا رہی ہیں - دگ وجے سنگھ

حیدرآباد میں دلت اسکالر روہت ویملا کی خودکشی کو لے کر حکومت پر حملہ بولتے ہوئے کانگریس لیڈر دگ وجے سنگھ نے آج الزام لگایا کہ یونیورسٹیز کے وایس چانسلرس کا انتخاب بی جے پی آر ایس ایس کی طرف سے کیا جا رہا ہے. انہوں نے طالب علم تنظیموں سے 'فرقہ وارانہ طاقتوں' سے لڑنے کے لئے متحد ہونے کو بھی کہا. کان

علی گڑھ اور جامعہ کے اقلیتی کردار پر سوالیہ نشان لگائے جانے پر مسلمانوں کی تشویش سے وزیراعظم کو واقف کرائیں گے: احمد بخاری

شاہی امام مولاناسیداحمد بخاری نے علی گڑھ مسلم یونیورسیٹی اور جامعہ ملیہ اسلامیہ پر ردعمل ظاہر کرتے ہوئے امام بخاری نے آج کہا کہ ان یونیورسٹیوں کے اقلیتی کردار پرسوالیہ نشان لگاکر ایک بارپھر مسلمانوں کی تعلیمی شہ رگ پر وار کیاگیاہے جس سے مسلمانوں میں شدید بے چینی پائی جاتی ہے اور ان دونوں تعلیمی ادا