Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Abdullah has approved a project to install about 300 sunshades in the courtyards of the Grand Mosque in Makkah, similar to the ones at the Prophet’s Mosque in Madinah. Makkah Gov. Prince Mishaal bin Abdullah thanked the king for the royal gesture that would

(Reuters) - Five bombs exploded on Tuesday in Sanaa's old quarter, where many supporters of the Shi'ite Muslim Houthi movement live, killing a member of the group and wounding another person, a senior security official said. One of the bombs was placed near the home of Ismail al-Wazir, a professo

Micromax's new Yu brand of Cyanogen OS-based smartphones were unveiled on Thursday with the launch of Yu Yureka. The smartphone, priced at Rs. 8,999, will go up for registrations via Amazon on Friday (2pm IST), and it will start shipping in the second week of January. Early adopters will get a le

بھٹکلیس نیوز/23دسمبر،14 بنگلورو/(نامہ نگار) ریاستی وزایر اعلی سدارامیا نے ہندوستان کے اوّلین مجاہد آزادی ٹیپو سلطان کو سیکولر حکمران قرار دیتے ہو ئے کہا کہ سلطان شہید نے ہندوستان کو فر نگیوں سے آزاد کر انے کے لئے جو قر بانیاں دی ہیں ، انہیں کبھی فرامو ش نہیں کیا جا سکتا ، اسلئے ریاستی حکومت سیکولر

Bengaluru: Autorickshaws may have gained in the fallout of the recent rape of an MNC employee by a driver of cab aggregator Uber in New Delhi. With operations of some cab agencies suspended in the state, auto drivers are now not only in demand, but the aggregator model is being tried on this transpo

BENGALURU: A company from India's Silicon Valley will have a new account in its hand, thanks to Bengaluru police. The cops are outsourcing the task of analyzing 1.29 lakh tweets on @ShamiWitness, Mehdi Masroor Biswas' pro-ISIS Twitter handle, because they lack the expertise to do the job. The invest

Dubai: Between January and November this year, Dubai Police issued 10,039 fines for traffic violations captured on camera. However, some motorists are still unaware about this practice in force since 2008. Traffic violations that can be caught on cameras include reckless driving, not giving way

Beji Caid Essebsi has won Tunisia's first free presidential election, beating rival and incumbent Moncef Marzouki with 55.68 percent of the vote, official results show. Marzouki secured 44.32 percent of the vote, Tunisia's High Electoral Commission said on Monday. In a Facebook post, Marzouki co

December 22, 2014 | Press Release | Bhatkallys News Dubai: Anjuman Alumni’s UAE chapter held their general body meet on 19th December 2014 at Lotus Hotel apartment in Abu Hail. The program started with recitation of Holy Quran and its translation both in English and Urdu by SM Siraj. Mr. Shari

Islam is a religion of peace, love, respect and kindness toward others and does not discriminate against other religions. This important message persuaded 18 people to revert and embrace Islam. They were accorded a warm reception by Maulana Hifzur Rahman Seoharvi Academy, an organization that aims t

New York: Two police officers sitting in their patrol car in Brooklyn were shot at point-blank range and killed on Saturday afternoon by a man who, officials said, had traveled to the city from Baltimore vowing to kill officers. The suspect then committed suicide with the same gun, the authorities s

Fifty-three per cent of Indians are connected to the internet every waking hour, which is higher than the global average of 51 per cent, a new international study has found. “The continuous online connectivity is becoming a phenomenon in India with 53 per cent of respondents in the country saying

Members of Cow, Cattle protection force(CPF) and All Religions Parliament (ARP) took out rally from Town hall to Rajbhavan to protest against slaughtering of Cow Progeny and Cattle in Bangalore. (TOI file photo) BELAGAVI: The Congress government fulfilled one of the assurances it had made during

SURAT: The Vishwa Hindu Parishad claims to have brought 500 people from 100 Christian families back into the Hindu fold in a 'ghar wapsi' programme organized in the tribal Arnai village in Valsad on Saturday. The organizers said that they did not take any permission and did not violate any law. T

Dubai: Hema, a middle income Indian expat in the UAE, jumped with happiness when rupee hit a record low last year. She repatriated Dh200,000 to India and cleared off her home loan, bought a new flat in India’s Silicon Valley, Bangalore and deposited the rest of the amount in a government bank for a

Israeli aircraft have bombed a site in Gaza, in the first such action since the declaration of a truce in August. The air strike was carried out on a Hamas facility in response to a rocket fired earlier from Gaza, a statement from the Israeli military said. Residents of the Khan Yunis area in Ga

NEW DELHI: Acer has re-entered the Indian market with the launch of two new handsets part of its Liquid range of smartphones. While the Liquid Jade is positioned closer to the mid-range at Rs 16,999, the Liquid E700 is a budget offering, priced at Rs 11,999. The Liquid E700 is the more interestin