LONDON: This year's Nobel prize for physics is about light. The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the Nobel prize in physics for 2014 to three Japanese-born scientists, Isamu Akasaki from Meijo University, Hiroshi Amano from the Nagoya University, Japan and Shuji Nakamura fro

The Panaji Town Police on Saturday booked two senior police officials, 48 advocates and over 500 others for illegally having dual citizenship. The accused include Superintendent of Police Juse Allan De Sa, Police Inspector Edwin Colaco, six unknown persons working under the Bombay High Court at G

Fighters from Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), backed by tanks and artillery, advanced into the southwest of the Syrian-Kurdish town of Kobane overnight, a monitoring group said Tuesday, as street-to-street fighting raged and the town's Kurdish defenders ordered all civilians to flee.

October 07, 2014 | Rizwan Gangavaly | Bhatkallys News Bhatkal: Angry residents of Bhatkal took on HESCOM officials and accused them of partiality towards a particular community on Monday morning after power outage for 17 hours on the first day of Eid only due to minor lightning and thunderstorm i

New Delhi: Governments must be seriously hemmed in with guidelines for how many newspaper ads they can place and the ads must not "glorify politicians in power", says a committee appointed by the Supreme Court. NDTV has accessed the detailed report of the committee, which was created in April thi

MUMBAI: The Election Commission of India has issued a notice to Union surface transport and shipping minister Nitin Gadkari for allegedly inducing the voters to take bribes and then decided on whom to vote. The commission has vowed to take action against him if he did not clarify on his statement by

JEDDAH: The Passport Department has urged all foreign pilgrims who came for Haj to leave the Kingdom before the expiry of their Haj visas. “You have been blessed with the opportunity to perform Haj. You are now requested to leave the Kingdom in accordance with departure schedules, as Saudi laws d

Jeddah: The annual recruitment of nearly 1.2 million foreign workers has hampered the Kingdom’s nationalization initiatives, said Saudi economists and experts, while urging the government to review its recruitment policy. “We recruit about 1.2 million foreign workers annually at a time when we ha

Flipkart declared Monday's the Big Billion Day a success, even as customers on social media criticised the online retailer for various problems that arose during the sale. "The Big Billion Day is an unprecedented day for us as this is the biggest sale ever in India," Flipkart co-founders Sachin B

At least 10 Hezbollah fighters have been killed in clashes with al-Qaeda’s Syrian wing the al-Nusra Front in eastern Lebanon , Reuters quoted a source in the group as saying on Monday. The death toll was one of the highest the group has suffered in a single action since it said it would fight alo

Even though a prospective employer may only have your resume, that’s not going to stop them from also researching to see what you have on LinkedIn. The fact is, if an employer is screening you, they are going to scour the Internet for information to make sure you are who you say you are on your resu

Makkah: Saudi Arabia breathed a sign of relief on Monday as the haj pilgrimage neared its close without the militant attacks or deadly epidemics that threatened to upset the huge annual Muslim journey of faith. The kingdom said this year’s tighter security and sanitary precautions had paid off, al

MANGALORE: City police succeeded in nabbing a gang of five involved in highway extortion on Monday. The arrested are Mahammed Azeem (23) of Pudu village in Bantwal, Ahammed Sadiq (19), Nisar Hussain (23), Hasanabba Noushad (23), three from Katipalla in the city, and Y Shashidhara (30), a resident

‘I will not speak a word against the Sena’ Explaining his silence on the Shiv Sena at his election rallies so far in Maharashtra, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday said he would not speak a word against the BJP’s estranged ally as a “tribute” to the late Balasaheb Thackeray. In his election

NEW DELHI: At least 5 people have been killed and 26 have been injured in a major ceasefire violation by Pak Rangers in Jammu & Kashmir's Arnia sector, according to Times Now. According to reports, Pak troops fired at BSF posts and also targeted civilian areas in Arnia sector. Reports say

Haj has never been so organized — from the trains that run on elevated tracks to the extremely helpful security forces on the ground and in the many helicopters that hover overhead informing the central operations command about possible bottlenecks. Saudi Arabia has poured billions of riyals into

DALLAS: The first Ebola patient diagnosed in the United States slipped from serious to critical condition in Dallas, while a former Ebola patient was readmitted to a Massachusetts hospital. The case of Thomas Eric Duncan, who arrived in Dallas from Liberia two weeks ago, has heightened concerns t

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