RIYADH: “If my denunciation came from an imbecile, it is a testimony to my perfection,” is how the Twitter hashtag that defends the Kingdom and its services offered to the guests of God started. Three hours after the setting up of the hashtag, it collected more than 100,000 spontaneous tweets that

MANGALURU: Manipal Hospitals, a part of Manipal Health Enterprises, entered the 'India/ Asia Book of Records' by organizing largest free heart screening event by a hospital chain on a single day assessing 10,732 people across its units on the account of 'World Heart Day'. The screening was conduc

JEDDAH: As the probe into the stampede in Mina continues, an Iranian official has confirmed that a group of 300 Iranian pilgrims coming from the opposite direction caused the crush, according to media reports quoting Iranian sources. Quoting the Iranian official, Asharq Al-Awsat, a sister publica

MINA: Pilgrims streamed out of Mina after performing the ritual stoning of the devil for one last time on Saturday. There was no respite from the hot weather and the mercury hovered around 45 degrees Celsius in the afternoon. The pilgrims had poured into the Jamrat Complex since morning to per

On Tuesday, Microsoft announced the availability of Office 2016 for Windows desktop platform. Used by more than 1 billion people worldwide, Office is not only the most popular productivity suite available on the planet, it is also one of the biggest revenue channels for the company. Microsoft dro

The Home Department has made elaborate security arrangements to ensure law and order across the State on Saturday in view of a Karnataka Bandh call given by over 1,000 associations. " We have ensured necessary measures to thwart any attempts of violence and there will be tight security in place,"

A permanent solution for travelling public on the notorious Shiradi Ghat road on the Bengaluru-Mangaluru national highway will come at a high cost. An estimated Rs 10,000 crore is the cost of the four-lane, 23-km-long pass planned at the Ghat, which includes 12.41 km of tunnel. The feasibility st

NEW DELHI: Amid reports of fourteen Indians, including Mohammed from Kerala and Bibijan from Hyderabad, being killed at the Mecca stampede, Haj Committee of India CEO Ataur Rahman told TOI that any such information would be confirmed only on Friday. Rahman said the stampede spot was far away from

MINA: Tragedy struck Mina on Thursday morning when more than 310 pilgrims died in a stampede on the way to the Jamrat complex. Saudi Civil Defense forces said more than 450 were injured. The exact cause of the accident could not be determined easily. Many of the injured were in semiconscious state

RIYADH: Fuad Omar bin Ali bin Al-Sheikh Abu Baker, minister of endowments and religious guidance in Yemen, has announced that a number of Yemeni pilgrims have now reached Makkah safely thanks to the extensive efforts of the Saudi authorities. These efforts have helped them to overcome any and all ob

RIYADH: An estimated 50,000 animals are expected to be slaughtered in the capital as part of the Eid Al-Adha sacrificial rites on Thursday. There are about seven slaughterhouses in various localities of the city. Riyadh municipality said these places are ready to receive sacrificial animals during

OTTAWA: Canada's conservative government on Saturday said that it would accept 10,000 Syrian refugees within one year by simplifying and speeding up the immigration application process. Visa officers will no longer ask the applicants to prove that they are refugees through a United Nations refuge

JEDDAH: The capacity of electricity plants at the holy sites now stands at 18,680MW, according to the Saudi Electricity Company (SEC). Ziyad bin Mohammad Al-Sheiha, chief executive officer of the SEC, said that various upgrades and distribution projects have been completed to meet the expected incr

The Bangalore Metro Rail Corporation Limited (BMRCL) will borrow around Rs.12,000 crore of loan from various international banks and investors for completion of the second phase of the Bangalore Metro Rail Corporation Ltd. The second phase of the project will cost Rs. 26,400 crore and is expe

LAGOS: Nigerian security services said they had recovered $111,000 in cash, wrapped up and swallowed by a member of a suspected smuggling ring. Six suspects, including a bureau de change operator, were arrested and held in the commercial capital Lagos until one of them had excreted 74 tightly-wrapp

Saudi Civil Defence teams evacuated  1,028 Asian pilgrims from an eight-floor hotel in Al Azizyiah neighbourhood in Makkah, after a fire broke out in a room, in the early hours of Wednesday. Media spokesman for the civil defence forces in Hajj, Colonel Abdullah Al Orabi Al Harthy was quoted by th

The Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru, bagged the 147th position while the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, ranked 179th this year from its 235th position last year. The 12th edition of the QS World University Rankings 2015/16 confirmed the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) as