RIYADH: A total of 43 warehouses were shut down in Jeddah for failing to take safety and health measures. Officials of the general department of Civil Defense in Jeddah carried out inspection at 165 industrial complexes in the industrial zone recently. The field campaign led by the director in cha

BENGALURU/ALAPPUZHA: The Congress high command is said to have given its nod to chief minister Siddaramaiah to join hands with JD(S) to form the BBMP council. All that's awaited now is a go ahead from JD(S) supremo HD Deve Gowda. JD(S) has convened a legislators' meeting in Bengaluru on September

Asus has announced the launch of yet another variant of the ZenFone 2 Deluxe. Called Asus ZenFone 2 Deluxe Special Edition, the smartphone was reportedly launch at an event in Sao Paulo, Brazil on Friday. First reported by Asus Fanaticos (via Fonearena), the new variant comes with massive 256GB i

August 30, 2015 | Correspondent | Bhatkallys News Hubbali/Bhatkal: In a moment of pride for Anjuman Hami-e-Muslimeen and Bhatkalis, Anjuman Degree College and PG Center’s 2nd year B.Com student Mohammad Salah Salamti secured the second position in university level swimming competition organized b

ALKHOBAR/JEDDAH: A fire at the Saudi Aramco residential complex in Alkhobar early Sunday killed at least eleven people and injured more than 200, civil defense officials said. Some of the injured were in “critical condition” and confined at nearby hospitals, the Civil Defense Department said. It

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan's defence ministertoday warned India that it will suffer "heavy losses" which it would "remember for decades" if it tries to "impose" a war on his country. Defence Minister Khawaja Muhammad Asif said "Pakistan's armed forces will defend every inch of their motherland at every

The Hennur police have detained three persons after they allegedly attacked an African student identified as Pisse Hotto. According to the police, Pisse Hotto stopped by a shop in Hennur to buy some cigarettes, but the shopkeeper said that there was no stock. However, when he was leaving, he n

FLORENCE (Italy): The deal to curb Iran's nuclear programme will bolster Tehran's ability to fund global terrorism by providing the Islamic state with "billions of dollars" in sanctions relief, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has declared. "Iran will get hundreds of billions of dollars

JEDDAH: A group of economic experts has warned that the Kingdom stands to lose SR795 million per day by using oil to generate electricity and for water desalination, and called for tapping renewable and alternative energy resources. According to statistics, the Kingdom’s current oil consumption s

A six-year-old child walking into the classroom with a tab in his hands is no more a strange sight in schools. Digital learning is the latest trend in pre-primary and primary schools in Bengaluru. Even as schools experiment with innovative approaches to teaching and learning, students become fami

In a ground-breaking project, a Brazilian toucan which lost the upper part of its beak while being trafficked has been fitted with a prosthesis made with a 3D printer. The female bird, named Tieta, was rescued from a wildlife animal fair in Rio de Janeiro. It is not clear whether she lost the

August 29, 2015 | Correspondent | Bhatkallys News Bhatkal: Taking serious note of encroachment of government land in different parts of the town, Bhatkal Tahsildar has issued a press release warning the citizens against encroachment of government land. Terming the buying and selling of governm

Al Jazeera has described the verdict of an Egyptian court a deliberate attack on press freedom after it sentenced three of its journalists to three years in prison. Egyptian Baher Mohamed and Canadian Mohamed Fahmy are heading back to jail after a retrial found them guilty of broadcasting false n

AGRA: The Shiv Sena in Uttar Pradesh announced on Saturday that it would give Rs 2 lakh to each Hindu family that has five children or more. The reason behind their stand, they said, was the "rising percentage of Muslim population in the country as stated in the latest (religion) census report".

NEW DELHI: Tennis star Sania Mirza was conferred with the prestigious Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna -- the country's highest sporting honour -- while shooting sensation was among the Arjuna award recipients in a glittering ceremony at the Rashtrapati Bhawan. President Pranab Mukherjee presented the awa

JEDDAH: A total of 94,390 people, most of them Saudis, aged 15 to 59, are jobless because of their unwillingness to work, according to an online newspaper quoting the Central Department of Statistics and Information. Among them, 65.2 percent are Saudis and 72.7 percent women. The CDSI report, wh

WASHINGTON: The gunman who killed two Virginia television journalists on air carried out a well-planned assault and identified with mass murderers and the September 11, 2001, attacks on the United States, authorities said on Friday. The shooter, Vester Flanagan, gave no sign of his destination or

MANGALURU: A youth lost Rs 20 lakh after being duped by an SMS alert alleging that he won a lottery. The victim is a resident of Kadaba in Puttur taluk, and works in Kolar. In November 2014, he received an SMS alert stating he has won a bumper prize of Rs 1 crore through Punjab Lottery Scheme. Ho