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

UPPINANGADY, DK district: Despite heavy rain, more than 10,000 people blocked the Mangaluru-Bengaluru National Highway (NH-75), some 60 km from Mangaluru, for more than five hours on Tuesday. The protesters, including students and senior citizens from Dakshina Kannada district, were objecting to the

September 16, 2015 | Correspondent | Bhatkallys News Bhatkal: Elections for new administration of Bhatkal's socio-political organization Majlise Islah Wa Tanzeem will be held on December 12, 2015. 10 members have been elected from the outgoing administration after first phase of voting held today

NEW DELHI: A Re 1 per litre hike in petrol and Rs 2.28 a litre increase in diesel prices necessitated due to firming global oil rates has been put off by state-owned oil companies apparently because of assembly elections in Bihar. State-owned IOCBSE -0.88 %, BPCLBSE -1.91 % and HPCLBSE -3.90 % we

Facebook is to add a "dislike" button to its social network, founder Mark Zuckerberg has said. In a Q+A session held at Facebook's headquarters in Menlo Park, California, the 31-year-old said the button would be a way for people to express empathy. He said Facebook was "very close" to having i

SAN FRANCISCO — With a very personal appeal, Google launched a donation-matching campaign that aims to raise $11 million for humanitarian organizations helping hundreds of thousands of refugees in Europe who have fled war-torn and impoverished countries. Google said on Tuesday it will match the f

JEDDAH: Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Salman on Tuesday ordered that top officials of the Saudi Binladin Group be banned from traveling outside the kingdom after probers pinned the blame partially on the construction company for Friday’s deadly crane crash in Makkah. A royal court announ

New Delhi, India - Hospitals in Delhi are struggling with an overload of dengue fever patients, as the capital tries to cope with the worst outbreak of the disease in five years, a doctor has told Al Jazeera. Mohammad Yahya, a resident doctor at the Hindu Rao Hospital, said on Tuesday that staff

Dutch scientists have created the world's biggest man-made wave as part of a multi-million pound project aimed at helping to save the low-lying country from devastating floods. The highest artificial wave generated so far is just over 5 metres but engineers are hoping to produce even larger ones

Thiruvananthapuram, Sept 15: Four youth of Kerala origin have been deported from the UAE. While two youth were sent to Tiruvananthapuram the other two were detained at Kozhikode. Currently both the police and the Intelligence Bureau are questioning them. These youth are part of the 11 others whos

Saudi Arabia's King Salman sanctioned the powerful Saudi Binladin Group Tuesday over the collapse of a construction crane at Makkah's Grand Mosque, which killed more than 100 people days before the Haj pilgrimage. An investigative commission had concluded that the company "was in part responsible

September 15, 2015 | Correspondent | Bhatkallys News Bhatkal: Heavy rains lashed Bhatkal for more than 14 hours throwing normal life out of gear in the coastal town. The rain, which started late on Monday night pounded Bhatkal till Tuesday noon. The town recorded a rainfall of 60.6 mm of rain

September 15, 2015 | Correspondent | Bhatkallys News Bhatkal: Various sports competitions were held between students of Higher Primary Schools at Taluka Ground in Nawayat Colony. Students from many schools participated in the competitions in which winners were awarded with medals and certifica

GHAZNI: Taliban insurgents stormed a prison in Afghanistan's Ghazni on Monday , killing police and releasing more than 350 inmates, including nearly 150 deemed a threat to national security , and then at tacked troops rushing to help officials said. The latest Taliban prison raid, on the outskirt

BENGALURU: The Karnataka High Court has asked the authorities to be more careful next year so that instances like of errors in the re-evaluation of second PUC results and delay in furnishing photocopies of answer-scripts to students are not repeated. Disposing of a PIL filed by city-based Rajaraj

JEDDAH: Insurance firms may have to pay out about SR33 million in blood money to the families of the 111 people who died in Friday’s crane collapse at the Grand Mosque in Makkah, say experts. This amounts to about SR300,000 per person, which is the mandatory coverage that all contractors working on

September 14, 2015 | Press Release | Bhatkallys News Bhatkal: Anjuman realising the importance of healthy eyes for students for better learning by being able to read and write properly arranged testing and checking the eyes of students of Anjuman Islamia Anglo Urdu High School. The process of