Gaza toll passes 300 as UN chief heads to region
GAZA CITY, Palestinian Territories: Fresh Israeli air strikes killed 10 people in Gaza on Saturday, hiking the death toll above 300 as UN chief Ban Ki-moon headed to the region to bolster truce efforts. The new peace push came as Israel’s campaign against the besieged Palestinian territory entere
Xiaomi Mi 3 With Snapdragon 800 Launched in India at Rs. 13,999
Xiaomi has on Tuesday launched its first smartphone for the Indian market, the Mi 3, priced at Rs. 13,999. The smartphone, first announced for India last week, is available from July 22, 12pm IST, exclusively on Flipkart. Pre-registration opens on Tuesday and will last until July 21 midnight. The
Israeli bombing turns Gaza into ghost town, death toll tops 120
A doll lies amid the rubble of a destroyed house following an Israeli missile strike in Gaza Strip. (AP photo) GAZA CITY: It's the holy month of Ramzan, when people throughout the Muslim world meet with friends and family, buy presents for loved ones and break a day-long fast each evening amid co
Photos: AEC - OMAN Chapter, Annual Alumni Meet and Iftar Party - 2014
Highlights of Union Budget 2014
NEW DELHI: Here are the highlights of Union Budget 2014 tabled by finance minister Arun Jaitley on Thursday: * Tax proposals on indirect tax front would yield Rs 7,525 crore. * Indian Custom Single Window Project to be taken up for facilitating trade. * Clean energy cess increased from Rs
غزہ پر اسرائیل کے جارحانہ حملوں میں 80 فلسطینی شہید
بھٹکلیس نیوز/11جولائی، 14 غزہ خنجر کی نوک پر آ گیا ہے ،عالمی برادری جنگ بندی کرائے: بین کی مون اسرائیلی فوج کی غزہ کی پٹی پر جاری وحشیانہ بمباری کے نتیجے میں گذشتہ تین روز کے دوران کم سے کم اسّی فلسطینی شہید ہوگئے ہیں اور بیسیوں عمارتیں تباہ ہوگئی ہیں۔ فلسطین کی وزارت صحت کی اطلاع کے مطابق غزہ کے
Budget 2014: Colour TV, computers get cheaper; cigarettes, soft drinks costlier
NEW DELHI: Finance minister Arun Jaitley on Thursday spared the common man from price hike by keeping duties on commonly used day-to-day items unchanged but made it costlier for smokers and tobacco consumers with a steep increase in excise rate in tax proposals in Budget 2014-15. Following is a l
UAE residency visas issued up 30% this year
Dubai: The first half of 2014 saw a 30 per cent increase in the number of residency visas issued compared with the same period in 2013. There were 570,917 new residency visas issued in the first half of 2014 as opposed to 436,993 in 2013. Major General Mohammad Ahmad Al Merri, Director
Mangaluru Darshana to highlight 2,000-year-old history of this coastal city
MANGALORE: Plans are afoot to bring out two mega volumes of Mangaluru Darshana that chronicles the entire history of this city within one year, deputy commissioner AB Ibrahim said. The city has a history of around 2,000-year and this will be studied threadbare to bring out Mangaluru Darshana based o
Highlights of Rail Budget 2014
Here are the highlights of Rail Budget 2014: * Indian railways to become the largest freight carrier in the world. * Social obligation of Railways in 2013-14 was Rs 20,000 crore. * Gross traffic receipts in 2013-14 was Rs 12,35,558 crore; operating ratio was 94 per cent. * Focus in past
State gets Rs 2,000 crore, 11 trains; survey on 5 lines
Despite financial constraints, Railway Minister D V Sadananda Gowda on Tuesday gave a bounty to Karnataka by announcing new trains and lines besides allocating Rs 2,000 crore, the highest in history, for ongoing projects. Of the 50 new trains announced in the budget, 11 originate from Karnataka.
Ramadan raids net 2,200 illegal expats in Kingdom
Madinah: Security officers in Saudi Arabia have arrested nearly 2,200 illegal foreign workers in Madinah and Hail and Baha this month for allegedly violating the country’s residency and labor regulations. Madinah police arrested 884 Asian and African illegals during Ramadan following numerous ins
Railway Budget 2014: Expect rail minister to put reforms on track
NEW DELHI: For railway minister D V Sadanand Gowda, it will be a tightrope walk between populism and tough reform measures as it presents the Modi government's first railway budget on Tuesday at a time when the cash-strapped transporter is gasping for survival. Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who m
Another 200 Indian Nationals Return From Iraq
New Delhi: A day after 46 Indian nurses returned to Kochi in Kerala from war-torn Iraq, a special chartered flight carrying 200 more Indians from Najaf landed at the Delhi International Airport this morning. "The situation is very bad in Iraq. We thank the Indian embassy, they helped us in getti
Riyadh deploys 30,000 soldiers on Iraq border
Dubai: Saudi Arabia has deployed 30,000 soldiers to its border with Iraq after Iraqi soldiers withdrew from the area, Saudi-owned Al Arabiya television said on Thursday. The world’s top oil exporter shares an 800km border with Iraq, where Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (Isil) and other mi
UK had plan to train and equip 100,000 Syrian rebels: BBC
LONDON: Britain had planned to train and equip a 100,000-strong rebel army to defeat Syrian President Bashar al-Assad before it was deemed to be too risky, BBC Newsnight reported on Thursday. The BBC said the secret "extract, equip, train" proposal, put forward two years ago, was the idea of Gene
Injured Zaheer targets CLT20 return
Recovering from a muscle injury, veteran pacer Zaheer Khan is eyeing a comeback to competitive cricket for Mumbai Indians during Champions League T20 in early October, even though he was non-committal about his chances of making it to the World Cup squad in 2015. "The World Cup is a special tourn
Android 5.0 to make apps faster, increase battery life
NEW DELHI: It looks like the next version of Android will be based on a new runtime that will allow apps to run faster and use less battery. ART or Android Runtime will be the default runtime when the next version of Android or Android 5.0 releases, as per developers at XDA, who spotted the prese