BENGALURU: Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi will spend 20 minutes each with families of two farmers who committed suicide in Mandya district. He'll arrive in Bengaluru on Friday and take a chopper to Mandya at 9.45am. He'll visit the homes of farmer Mahesh from Panakanahalli and Madegowda of

RIYADH: Saudi Arabia and Oman have completed the construction of a mega road project linking the two countries. “The new road, which will cut the distance between Saudi Arabia and Oman by about 800 km, will be opened soon for public,” said Ahmad Hilal Al-Busaidi, Omani ambassador, Wednesday. Al-Bu

JEDDAH: The Kingdom is hosting for Umrah the American student who was recently wrongfully arrested after a teacher at his school in Texas mistook his homemade clock for a bomb. Ahmed Mohammed Al-Hassan, who is of Sudanese origin, would also visit relatives in Jeddah during his trip, according to

HONG KONG: A rare drawing of comic book hero Tintin by Belgian cartoonist Herge fetched over $1 million at auction in Hong Kong Monday as experts say comic art is becoming as collectible as paintings. The artwork is an illustration from the cartoonist's "The Blue Lotus" book, published in 1936, w

BENGALURU: For 60-year-old S Emily, life isn't easy. Unable to continue with her higher studies due to financial constraints, she worked as an office assistant at a city school with a minimal salary. After retirement, she has to take care of her husband and her savings are dwindling. "I don't hav

JEDDAH: Every Saudi family is entitled under certain conditions to a maximum of five visas for household workers through the Musaned website, while expatriate families and citizens married to foreigners are entitled to two each. Saudi families can recruit a woman household worker, man household wor

MOSCOW: Russian volunteers who have honed their combat skills in Ukraine are likely to travel to Syria to fight alongside the forces of president Bashar al-Assad, Admiral Vladimir Komoyedov, the head of the Russian parliament's defence committee, said on Monday. "It is likely that groups of Russi

Imports from Egypt, China and Pakistan coupled with harvesting of the local crop have led to a fall in onion prices to Rs 45-55 a kg from Rs 70-80 in retail markets in Karnataka. Local produce reached the two main wholesale markets of Hubbali and Bengaluru in the last few days. The traders expect pr

JEDDAH: Faisal bin Hassan Trad, the permanent representative of Saudi Arabia to the United Nations Office in Geneva, said the Kingdom has been the most generous country in the world in the field of development and humanitarian aid over the past four decades. “Saudi Arabia donated, during this perio

Renowned poet-philosopher Allama Muhammad Iqbal's son Justice (retd) Javed Iqbal died here today at the age of 90. He was under treatment for cancer at the Shaukat Khanum Memorial Cancer Hospital in Lahore. He is survived by his two sons - Walid and Munib Iqbal - and wife Justice (retd) Nasira

Bengaluru Subscribe Bengaluru BMTC to pilot CNG in Bengaluru Updated: October 4, 2015 09:25 IST | Avinash Bhat      HYDERABAD, 16/07/2007: A view of the first CNG-driven APSRTC bus that was flagged off by the Chief Minister from the Assemb

Today, smartphones have become an integral part of our lives - they have entered our homes, workplaces and classrooms. With almost an omnispresence in our lives, there is an urgent need for people to practice some smartphone etiquettes. Here are few tips you can follow to avoid being a smartphone

Want to score a programming gig at Google? Don't hesitate looking up for complicated queries on Google. That's precisely how Max Rosett recently landed a job at the search giant. In a blog post, Rosett has taken the lid off a rather unconventional recruiting practice by Google. The world's bigges