SURAT:  Hardik Patel, the Patidar community leader who was arrested on Saturday evening for violating prohibitory orders in Gujarat, was released on bail just three hours later by a court in Surat. The 22-year-old tried to take out a protest march in Surat along with his supporters this morning,

The Kingdom has denounced violations by Israeli forces of Al-Aqsa Mosque, one of Islam’s holiest sites, which has seen days of clashes between Israeli police and stone-throwing Palestinians. The Saudi Press Agency quoted an official source describing the Israeli actions as an “aggression” which w

Dubai: Shaikh Rashid Bin Mohammad Bin Rashid Al Maktoum died of heart attack on Saturday. He was 34. Funeral prayers will be held after Maghrib prayers at Zabeel Mosque. A three-day mourning period has been declared in Dubai. UAE flags will be flown at half mast during the mourning period. “We be

London: London is the fifth most expensive city in the world to live in but wage levels have failed to keep up compared to other major centres, a report by Swiss bank UBS has found. The British capital ranked behind Zurich, Geneva, New York and Oslo when it came to the relative cost of goods, inc

MANGALURU: The woes of victims affected by alleged endosulfan poisoning continues with State Government still unable to give them timely assured relief. Now the Endo Virodhi Horatta Samiti, Kokkada, is planning to hold a protest in front of Deputy Commissioner's office here on September 28 if the

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

JEDDAH: Relatives of the four Bangladeshis killed during last month’s suicide bomb attack in the Kingdom, are to perform Haj this year as guests of Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Salman. The Bangladeshis were killed during an attack by terrorists on a mosque used by members of the Special E

September 18, 2015 | Correspondent | Bhatkallys News Bhatkal: In a tragic crash, two persons were killed on the spot and three persons were severely injured in a fatal crash that took place between Swift Car and a truck at Hebbul National Highway near Ankola Friday morning. The victims were id

September 18, 2015 | Rizwan Gangavaly | Bhatkallys News Bhatkal: An auto-rickshaw driver was allegedly beaten up on Friday evening by a youth near Lowna Complex due to a tiff that erupted between them over sounding the horn. As per sources, the auto-driver identified as Jalal Mohammed Meeran w

NEW DELHI: Flash storage solutions company SanDisk has launched a new wireless mobile flash drive, SanDisk Connect Wireless Stick in India. As per the company, the new drive enables easy sharing, transferring and accessing of photos and videos between mobile devices and computers. The SanDisk

Saudi Arabia denounced on Thursday what it called violations by Israeli forces of Jerusalem's al-Aqsa mosque, one of Islam's holiest sites, which has seen days of clashes between Israeli police and stone-throwing Palestinians. The state Saudi Press Agency quoted an official source describing the

New Delhi: Two girls, aged three and nine, have become the latest victims of dengue in the city, taking the death toll to 16 today in what is being billed as the worst outbreak of the vector-borne disease in the national capital in the past five years. Three-year-old Neha Mathur, a resident of Sa

September 17, 2015 | Correspondent | Bhatkallys News Bhatkal: Incidents of cattle confiscations are on rise day-by-day as Eid-ul-Adha nears, and at different places cattle are being confiscated and men who transport them have been arrested. Barely a few days ago, a huge truck carrying cattle f

JUBA: More than 100 people were killed in South Sudan when an oil truck exploded as a crowd tried to gather fuel from the vehicle after it had veered off the road, a regional official said on Thursday, a day after the incident. In addition to those killed in Wednesday's blast, Charles Kisagna, th

MANGALURU: Long arms of the law caught up with Shivanna alias Puttayya, 58, when DK district police re-arrested him in connection with a case registered against him in Bantwal rural police station. Shivanna, arrested by then Bantwal rural PSI K U Beliappa on March 17, 2002 while attempting to smuggl

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 Congress on Wednesday protested the decision to discontinue two postal stamps on former prime ministers -and party leaders- Indira Gandhi and Rajiv Gandhi, but the NDA government stood firm, saying it wanted to expand the list of leaders to be honoured. The Congress condemned the decision, wi