BENGALURU: Satish U R, a native of Tumkur district landed early morning in the city to meet his kins in NIMHANS hospital. "I thought I would get a bus early in the morning before the protestors even wake up to obstruct the city's functioning. There was none. Auto rickshaws charged a bomb of Rs 500 t

MINA: The Kingdom will continue to play its role at the regional and international level for Arab and Muslim unity and will not allow anyone to drive a wedge between them or disrupt the harmony, said Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Salman on Friday. He was speaking at an annual reception in

Mumbai/New Delhi, Sep 25 (IANS) Millions celebrated Eid al-Adha or Bakri Eid with gaiety across India on Friday but the Haj tragedy in Saudi Arabia that killed over 700 pilgrims including 14 Indians cast a shadow. Eidgah grounds and mosques across the country attracted tens of thousands of domina

MINA: Pilgrims continued to perform the mandatory rituals of Haj on Friday despite a massive stampede a day earlier. Few pilgrims slept on Thursday night, thronging major roads and bridges as wailing ambulances continued to ferry the dead and injured to hospitals and morgues in and around Mina.

BERLIN: As Middle Eastern migrants flocked to Germany, Google said Friday demand for its Arabic-German translation service had surged five-fold, urging native speakers to help improve the service. The EU’s top economy this year expects to take in between 800,000 and one million asylum-seekers, ma

In an apparent attempt to send the message of peace and brotherhood in a city with a long history of sectarian clashes, members of Shia and Sunni communities, including religious leaders of both sects, offered joint "namaz” (prayer) here on the occasion of Eid-ul-Zuha on Friday. The joint prayer

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

Micromax on Thursday launched three new budget 4G smartphones in India: Canvas Blaze 4G, Canvas Fire 4G and Canvas Play 4G. While the Canvas Blaze 4G and Canvas Fire 4G are priced at Rs. 6,999 each, the Canvas Play 4G is priced at Rs. 12,499. All three smartphone run Android 5.1 Lollipop out-of-the-

A modified smartphone with a new app can act as a ‘pocket optician’ to effectively test eyesight and even scan the eye for cataracts, researchers have found. Researchers at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine believe the smartphone app can transform eye care for millions of people

The Centre plans to set up a national board for publication of school textbooks and also allow higher educational institutions to establish their own units for publication of academic journals and books. It also proposes to set up publishing units in public private partnership framework to augmen

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

September 24, 2015 | Correspondent | Bhatkallys News Bhatkal: Eid-ul-Adha was celebrated across Bhatkal with traditional fervour and gaiety on Thursday. Thousands of Muslims thronged the eidgah to offer prayers led by Maulana Irshad Naite Nadvi. The Eid sermon highlighted the significance of E

BENGALURU: A 6 year old boy kidnapped by a relative was rescued in the nick of time by Ashok Nagar police. The police arrested two persons- 25 year old Gagan and Clinton for the kidnap, just as Clinton had reached the City Railway station with Jishnu (the victim) to get away from Bangalore. On We

MOSCOW: Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow on Wednesday opened one of the biggest mosques in Europe, warning against the lure of militants as the government frets over its citizens fighting for the Daesh group. Turkish leader Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Palestinian President Mahmud Abbas wer

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

PATNA:  Nitish Kumar today attacked the BJP's ideological mentor Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) for controversial comments on reservation and sneered that the "RSS is like the Supreme Court for BJP." The Bihar Chief Minister called the comments of RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat "dangerous and extra-c