The first flight with Haj pilgrims took off from Mangalore International Airport on Wednesday with 130 passengers. Of them, 64 were men and the remaining were women. Of the passengers, 127 were from Dakshina Kannada and three were from Hassan district. Minister for Information, Haj and Infrast

NEW DELHI: The first major controversy hit the 3 month-old Narendra Modi government on Wednesday when Union home minister Rajnath Singh publicized his anguish about the "rumour" that Prime Minister Narendra Modi had rebuked his son Pankaj Singh for seeking to influence transfers and postings in Delh

Dubai: Four Asian men have been caught trying to sell 4.7 million Indian rupees in fake banknotes to a Dubai businessman. “The forgery was among the best we have seen,” Major General Khalil Ebrahim Al Mansouri, Assistant Police Chief for criminal investigation affairs, said. “It could have easi

JERUSALEM: Both Israel’s prime minister and Hamas declared victory Wednesday in the Gaza war, though their competing claims left questions over future terms of their uneasy peace still lingering. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s comments, delivered in a prime-time address on national t

Intex on Monday has launched the first Firefox OS smartphone in India, the Cloud FX, priced at Rs. 1,999. The company had in June announced it would launch the smartphone in August under Rs. 2,000. The smartphone is now available via exclusive retail partner Snapdeal. The cheapest Android smartph

Ahead of the Assembly elections in four crucial states, the NDA government on Wednesday lifted the restriction of one cooking gas cylinder per month to a household, allowing consumers to avail 12 cylinders in their quota at any time of the year.  An official statement said that according to the U

GANDHINAGAR: Gujarat assembly Speaker Vajubhai Rudabhai Vala, named the new governor of Karnataka, is considered close to Prime Minister Narendra Modi. The 76-year-old is a veteran Bharatiya Janata Party activist who started his political career with the erstwhile Jana Sangh. A senior leader o

BANGALORE: In simultaneous raids across the state, Lokayukta police swooped down on seven officials and unearthed disproportionate assets worth over Rs 9.7crore from them. The raids began at the crack of dawn in Bangalore, Chitradurga, Kolar, Mysore, Ramanagaram, Tumkur and Yadgir districts. T

New Delhi:  The Supreme Court today refused to disqualify ministers with criminal cases, leaving the decision to the "Prime Minister's wisdom". "No disqualification can be prescribed," a Constitution bench of the country's five senior most judges said. "It is expected that the PM will not appo

Manama: Saudi pilgrimage authorities may impose a 15-day cap on stays by foreigners who enter the kingdom to perform Umrah. The decision will be proportionate with the capacity to accommodate worshippers inside the Grand Mosque in Makkah, currently undergoing massive construction work that has

GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip: Israel and Hamas agreed Tuesday to an open-ended cease-fire, halting a seven-week war that killed more than 2,200 people, the vast majority Palestinians, left tens of thousands in Gaza homeless and devastated entire neighborhoods in the blockaded territory. Hamas declared v

Auhor: Harsh Mander In the three months since Narendra Modi’s spectacular triumph, many corners of the country have begun to smoulder in slow fires of orchestrated hate and distrust against India’s Muslims and this is mostly unnoticed by the majority. Only a few violent episodes make it briefly t

Sky watchers, who are eagerly waiting to witness a celestial wonder, will be disappointed to know that the appearance of two moons, on Wednesday, 27 August, is a hoax. "There'll be no such celestial wonder on August 27. It's Saturn and Mars coming adjacent to each other. It surely is a nice sight

بھٹکلیس نیوز / 25 اگست،2014 بینگلور / (نامہ نگار) محکمہ فوڈ اینڈ سیول سپلائز نے موجودہ راشن کارڈوں کو بائیو میٹرک لگے ہوئے اسمارٹ کارڈ بنانے کی جو تجویز پیش کی ہے اسے رکاوٹوں کا سامنا ہے ۔ محمکمہ کامن اسمارٹ کارڈ جاری کرنے مرکزی وزارت محنت کے ساتھ اشتراک کرنے کا خواہشمند تھا ۔ جو فئیر پرائس دکانوں

BANGALORE: Congress' better-than-expected performance in the bypolls, where it won two of the three seats, has come as a shot in the arm for CM Siddaramaiah who is facing dissent within the party. While this result strengthens the hand of energy minister DK Shivakumar, who is credited with winnin

New Delhi:  Three people who arrived at Delhi airport this morning from Ebola-hit Liberia, have been isolated and taken for further tests. 112 people are arriving at the Mumbai and Delhi airports on seven flights through the day. Following are the latest developments: Health authorities have str

Dubai: Dubai Police’s Criminal Investigations Department (CID) seized 60,000 fake mobile phones worth Dh48 million between August 9-23. Major General Khalil Ebrahim Al Mansouri, Assistant to the Dubai Police Chief for Criminal Investigation Affairs, said the CID’s Anti-Economic Crime Department

More than 1.3 million foreign pilgrims are expected to perform Haj this year, according to the Haj Ministry. South Asian countries will send the largest contingent of 410,000 Hajis followed by Arab countries with 250,000. About 228,000 pilgrims will come from Southeast Asian countries including I