BENGALURU: Undeterred by political uncertainty over the city civic polls, the State Election Commission has revised the electoral rolls and prepared the ground for over 70 lakh voters to exercise their franchise, if BBMP elections are held. Former BBMP commissioner M Lakshminarayana said the numb

CAIRO: An Egyptian court today sentenced 11 youths to death for their involvement in the deadliest sport- related incident in the soccer-crazy nation, the 2012 football riots in Port Said in which 74 fans were killed. The sentencing was referred to the Grand Mufti - the country's most senior reli

NEW DELHI: Petrol price was today cut by 80 paise a litre and diesel by Rs 1.30 per litre, the second reduction in rates this month.The reduction will be effective from midnight tonight, Indian Oil Corp (IOC) said. After the cut, petrol will cost Rs 59.20 a litre in Delhi and diesel will be availabl

Recruits are wanted by the Sharjah Department of Statistics and Community Development (DSCD) to work as part of the team for the Sharjah Census 2015 beginning in October under the theme, ‘For a better tomorrow’. The department will appoint 800 researchers, supervisors and collaborators of any nat

English grammar is something that is treasured by everyone. We all want to improve on our grammar skills so that we are able to communicate with some level of mastery. Being able to construct grammatically correct sentences is not only seen as a skill but as a treasure that everyone yearns for. It i

Firefighters battle a blaze after an explosion at a plant producing paraxylene - a chemical commonly known as PX - in Zhangzhou, east China's Fujian province.- AFP Beijing: Almost 30,000 people living near a Chinese chemical plant where a huge fire blazed for a total of nearly 50 hours were evacu

DHARWAD: A century-old Kannada magazine that incubated many young writers and fashioned a new literary path for decades has wound up for want of funds. Sadbodha Chandrike was launched by Venkatesh Trivikrambhat Kulkarni, popularly called Galaganatha, in Haveri district's Anandavana, Agadi, in 190

Over 540 people have been killed and 1,700 injured in the fierce fighting inYemen in the past few weeks with relief agencies on Tuesday warning of a dire situation due to dwindling supplies in the strife-torn Arabian Peninsula state. "More than 540 people have been killed and 1,700 injured in the

CHITTOOR:  Among the 20 alleged sandalwood smugglers who were shot dead in the sandalwood forests of Andhra Pradesh this morning, many were reportedly from across the border, provoking strong protests from Tamil Nadu, which wants an independent inquiry to determine how the men were killed. "Such

NEW DELHI:  India today evacuated 1,052 more Indians - including 574 from the Yemeni capital Sana'a on three Air India flights and 479  from Al Hodeidah on board the Indian Naval Ship Mumbai. Nearly 3,300 of the estimated 4,000 Indians in Yemen have been rescued in Operation Rahat,  so far. Defen

South Police have stopped the purchase of Holy Zamzam water from local shops following a report which claimed that Houthi rebels mixed poison in 2000 bottles. Makkah: According to report, Police have recovered huge amount of poisonous water and taken it into its custody for laboratory test. Po

BSNL has recently announced that it has launched new unlimited data plans for its post-paid customers. So far, two subscriptions packs have gone live and they’re currently limited to the north zone. BSNL states that the tariffs are aimed towards students and the youth. The first unlimited data pl

The tourism sector will throw up employment opportunities to more than 400,000 people in the next five years and all-out efforts are being made to train Saudis for these jobs, an official of the Human Resources Development Fund (HRDF) has said. The organization is conducting studies and assessment

AIMIM MLA Imtiyaz Jaleel (middle) and his team holding interviews for candidates ahead of Civic Polls in Aurangabad Aurangabad: Buoyed after winning two seats in 2014 assembly election in Maharashtra – one of it being the Aurangabad (Central) seat – the All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (A

NEW YORK: Over the next four decades, Islam is expected to grow faster than any other major religion worldwide, with the Muslim population nearly matching Christians in both number and share of the global population, according to projections released on Thursday. Christians will remain the larges

Lead Trust is organizing the 6th Edition of Lead Talent Search Exam - LTSE 2015 on 12th April 2015 in Kerala &  19 April 2015 in Karnataka & Tamil Nadu in association with Partner Colleges and Partner NGOs. What is LTSE ? Lead Talent Search Exam - LTSE is a Merit Assessment Test conduc

ADEN(AFP): Al-Qaida militants stormed a prison in southeastern Yemen on Thursday, freeing several hundred inmates including one of their leaders, a security official said. Khalid Batarfi, a senior Al-Qaida figure who had been held for more than four years, was among more than 300 prisoners who es

March 29, 2015 | Correspondent | Bhatkallys News Karwar: Uttar Kannada district's Deputy Commissioner Mr. Ujjwal Kumar Ghosh has directed the authorities to accelerate the pace of the Kundapur-Goa NH66 highway expansion work and complete it within the stipulated period. After performing a revi