MANGALURU: The department of health and family welfare has taken due cognizance of the recent 'sale' of kidney by a woman in Magadi to settle her debts. Minister for health and family welfare U T Khader said that the Zonal Coordination Committee of Karnataka (ZCCK) for organ transplant will be direc

BEIJING: China's national capital Beijing has announced plans to build a new administrative center adjacent to the city to address growing traffic woes while promising to limit its population to 23 million people. The city would speed up construction of a "subsidiary administrative center" while

DAMMAM: Malls and shopping centers around the country have tightened security to deal with a major influx of shoppers preparing for Eid Al-Fitr celebrations. There has been extra security staff deployed and more closed-circuit television cameras installed. There is also close coordination with the

Arab coalition air strikes and heavy shelling between warring factions shook several cities in Yemen, despite a UN humanitarian truce which took effect just before midnight. Aid groups warn of deepening crisis in Yemen   Saturday's pause in the fighting was meant to

BAREILLY, UTTAR PRADESH:  A key witness in the rape case against self-styled godman Asaram Bapu, was shot dead by unidentified attackers in Uttar Pradesh's Shahjahanpur district on Friday night. It was the ninth attack against witnesses in the case. 35-year-old Kripal Singh was shot at by two per

A strong typhoon pounded the Chinese coast south of Shanghai on Saturday with strong winds and heavy rainfall, submerging roads, felling trees and forcing the evacuation of 1.1 million people. Typhoon Chan-hom slammed ashore with winds of up to 160 kilometres (100 miles) per hour in Zhoushan, a c

JEDDAH: There has been a drop in property prices by up to 30 percent in some parts of the country, the Housing Ministry reported recently. From the start of the year until May, deals worth SR278 billion were finalized, down 14 percent from the same period last year, a local publication reported r

WASHINGTON: NASA has taken a key step forward in the goal to eventually land a person on Mars. Robert Behnken, Sunita Williams, Eric Boe and Douglas Hurley will train to fly to space on commercial crew vehicles, NASA said. “We are on a journey to Mars, and in order to meet our goals for sending Ame

MANGALURU: Department of Posts joined the financial inclusion channel to deliver financial services at affordable costs to sections of disadvantaged and low-income segments of society with the first Postal ATM set up at Pandeshwar Head Post Office becoming operational on Friday. The ATM was inaugura

10th July 2015 | Correspondent | Bhatkallys News Bhatkal: Like previous years, this year too a peace meeting with community leaders was called by the police department in order to maintain peace and harmony in the town on the occasion of Eid-ul-Fitr. Community leaders of all religions particip

Heavy rainfall events setting ever new records have been increasing strikingly in the past thirty years. While before 1980, multi-decadal fluctuations in extreme rainfall events are explained by natural variability, a team of scientists of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research detected a

ہزاروں لوگ گھر چھوڑنے پر مجبور کینڈا،10جولائی(ایجنسی) کینیڈا کے 100 سے زیادہ مقامات پر شدید آگ لگی ہے، جس کی وجہ سے ہزاروں لوگوں کو اپنے گھر چھوڑ کر جانے کے لئے مجبور ہونا پڑا ہے. مقامی حکام نے کل ایک تازہ رپورٹ میں بتایا ہے کہ صرف Saskatchewan میں 118 مقامات پر آگ لگ گئی ہے، جن میں سے 20 مقامات پ

BEIJING: Thousands of people were on Friday evacuated from China's eastern Zhejiang province as the country was put on the highest alert for super typhoon Chan-Hom. The super typhoon, approaching with a windspeed of up to 187 kilometers per hour, is expected to make a landfall tonight or early Sa

MANGALURU: KMC Hospital, Mangaluru, will introduce latest technology rotablator and 3D mapping system. Dr Annapoorna Kini, director Cath Lab and Interventional Cardiology and professor of cardiology, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, NY, will inaugurate the rotablator on Friday. Dr Jayaprakash Shen

JEDDAH: Veteran former Foreign Minister Prince Saud Al-Faisal died on Thursday at the age of 75, two months after he stepped down following 40 years in the job, family members and a Foreign Ministry spokesman said. Nawaf Al-Faisal, a relative, announced the death on Facebook, while a ministry spoke

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MIT researchers have trained their cheetah robot to jump over hurdles as it runs — making it the first four-legged robot that can run and jump over obstacles autonomously. The Massachusetts Institute of Technology researchers had demonstrated last year that the robotic cheetah was able to run unt

A 21-year-old woman died after falling from a bridge while trying to take a selfie in Russia. Anna Krupeynikova was out sightseeing around Moscow with her friends. When she leaned against a fence to take a picture of herself, her support reportedly gave way and she fell off the bridge to death.