BAGHDAD: Just last month Shia prime minister Haider al-Abadi visited the Habbaniya military base in Iraq's Sunni heartland hoping to fire up pro-government fighters seen as critical in the battle against Islamic State militants. But the group's seizure of provincial capital Ramadi in Anbar has fo

MANGALURU: People of Dakshina Kannada have two reasons to cheer for with regard to the II PU results that was announced on Monday. The district has not only maintained its top ranking in the state, but also has improved its pass percentage from 86.04 in 2014 to 93.09 this year. Deputy director

RIYADH: Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Salman has thanked US President Barack Obama and leaders of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries for committing to the region’s defense and security at their meeting in Camp David last week. King Salman, who chaired the weekly Cabinet session a

May 19, 2015 | Rizwan Gangavaly | Bhatkallys News Bhatkal: Residents of Gousia Street are suffering from poor drainage conditions for the past many years because of a pumping station located in the area. The ground water is totally contaminated in this area due to leaking of sewage water. The res

Saudi forces on Monday targeted Yemeni Houthi militiamen across the border after the fighters fired at an army outpost. The fighting comes as a Saudi-led Arab coalition resumed air strikes on the Iranian-allied Houthi militia positions in and around the southern Yemeni city of Aden overnight afte

“We are excited to show, for the first time, that reading exposure during the critical stage of development prior to kindergarten seems to have a meaningful, measurable impact on how a child’s brain processes stories and may help predict reading success,” said study author John Hutton, M.D., Nationa

  Like something you might see in a futuristic film, a demonstration was offered in early May of a driverless semi-trailer. Similar to, but more ominous than, driverless cars that have been on display and on the roads in recent months, a driverless semi-trailer truck requires a driver at

UNITED NATIONS: UN secretary-general Ban Ki-moon expressed serious concern on Monday after an Egyptian court sentenced ousted president Mohamed Morsi to death. Morsi was among more than 100 defendants given the death penalty on Saturday for their role in a mass jailbreak during the 2011 uprising.

Senior Muslim cleric Sheikh Youssef al-Qaradawi has condemned death sentences passed on himself, former Egyptian President Mohamed Mursi and 105 supporters of the Muslim Brotherhood group over a mass jail break in 2011. In a video statement posted on Qaradawi's twitter account on Sunday, the elde

BENGALURU: While Karnataka transport department continues to press for paying of road tax for vehicles registered in other states, if plied in here for more than 30 days, there is hope that the Centre might amend that rule. The campaign—One nation, one road tax has reached the tables of the Union

DOHUK (Iraq): A spokesman for the governor of Iraq's Anbar province said Monday that about 500 people - both civilians and Iraqi soldiers - are estimated to have been killed over the past few days as the city of Ramadi fell to the Islamic State group. The estimates follow a shocking defeat as Isl

RIYADH: Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Salman received the First Class Merit Award from the Arab Parliament in Riyadh on Sunday. He was awarded for his courage and service toward resolving regional Arab issues in general, and the Yemen problem in particular. On behalf of the Arab Parliamen

MUMBAI: Aruna Shanbaug, the former KEM Hospital nurse who has been lying in a vegetative state for the past 40 years, passed away at 9.40am on Monday. Doctors at KEM Hospital said that she had been fighting pneumonia for the last six days. Shanbaug, 67, was taken to the medical intensive care uni

18th May 2015 | Bhatkallys News Bhatkal: Department Of Pre University Education, Karnataka has announced PUC II Results on 18th May 2015 at 11:30 am. Students can access their results by logging on to the below-mentioned websites and clicking on the link provided for the results. Candidates

Guwahati: It has been one year since Narendra Modi ‘stormed’ in New Delhi. There were fanfare and hope. But now they feel the broken promises are too heavy. Many in the north-eastern states were extremely hopeful that the Narendra Modi government would at least settle a few issues which the previous

Abu Dhabi - A bus with Umrah pilgrims returning from Saudi Arabia overturned, leaving three people dead and 56 injured on the Abu Dhabi-Ghuwaifat highway. The bus, carrying 60 UAE-based pilgrims, turned turtle near Abu Al Abbyadh, about 200km from the Abu Dhabi city, around 3am on Saturday after a w

In this April 3, 2007 file photo, President Bush speaks about the congressional debate on Iraq war spending, in Rose Garden of the White House in Washington. A dozen years later, American politics has finally reached a rough consensus about the Iraq War: It was a mistake. – AP file Washington - A

Hyderabad: Agastaya Jaiswal, a nine-year-old kid from Hyderabad, created a record when he passed the Secondary School Certificate (SSC —10th standard) examinations, results of which were announced on Sunday by Deputy CM Kadiam Srihari, who also hold the education portfolio. Agastaya scored 7.5 gr