LUCKNOW: Shahi Imam Ahmed Bukhari's open support to the Congress for the Lok Sabha election has drawn sharp criticism from the political parties and Muslim groups in Uttar Pradesh. While Shia cleric Kalbe Jawwad on Saturday asserted that the Congress and the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) slug fest

NEW DELHI: Syed Yahya Bukhari, the younger brother of Shahi Imam of Jama Masjid Syed Ahmed Bukhari, on Saturday opposed the latter's decision to support Congress and accused the party of "backstabbing" Muslims. "Whatever happened under Narendra Modi in Gujarat 10-12 years ago against Muslims is k

CHENNAI: The Election Commission has prohibited the publication, broadcast and telecast of the results of exit polls between April 7 and May 12 in Tamil Nadu, where the election process will be in vogue during this period. In a notification, the EC also barred the opinion polls or poll survey dur

QUITO (Ecuador): Ecuador's Tungurahua volcano has spewed a 6-mile (10-kilometer) column of ash after a powerful, five-minute explosion that shot pyroclastic material onto its northern and northwestern flanks. Ecuador's geophysics institute said Friday's blast occurred at 6:10pm local time and was

BEIJING: A Chinese ship involved in the Indian Ocean search for flight MH370 detected a "pulse signal" at a frequency used by aircraft black boxes Saturday, but Australia warned there was no evidence yet that it was linked to the missing plane. China's Xinhua news agency said the signal picked up

GANDHINAGAR: Gujarat chief minister Narendra Modi will become the next Prime Minister of India but cannot be compared to former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee, senior BJP leader LK Advani said on Saturday. "Modi will become the PM of the country ... I would not compare him (Modi) to Vajpayee

بھٹکلیس نیوز / 05 اپریل 14 بھٹکل / (رضوان گنگاولی) شرالی قومی شاہراہ وینکٹاپور پل کے قریب مال بردار لاری کے اچانک پلٹ جانے سے لاری ڈرائیور ہلاک جبکہ کلینر کے زخمی ہونے کی اطلاع موصول ہوئی ہے۔ڈرائیور کی شناخت جانیشورا راؤ (40) اور کلینر کی شناخت نارائن اتاپی (45) کی حیثیت سے کی گئی ہے ۔ دونوں کا ت

Dubai: Indians in the UAE don’t expect to be directly impacted by the upcoming general elections in India, but said there is special interest and concern this voting season. They said a “mass hysteria” for change coupled with close competition and hard-to-predict outcomes make the latest electi

Dubai: The Dubai Health Authority (DHA) on Wednesday approved 43 insurance companies to provide health cover for Dubai residents, and said the first phase of the scheme will end by October this year. “Initially, the scheme will cover 200 companies with a large number of staff,” said Dr Haidar A

Sriharikota:  The Indian space agency made history today by launching the Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle or PSLV successfully 25 times in a row, bringing India one step closer to its own global positioning system or the 'desi' GPS. The 44 meter, 320 ton, PSLV rocket successfully lifted off into t

The Bharatiya Janata Party’s prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi raked up the issue of meat export for the third day running on Thursday, accusing the Congress of promoting slaughterhouses in the country. The Congress retorted that Mr. Modi was indulging in doublespeak as Gujarat, too, expo

04 April, 2014 | Correspondent | Bhatkallys News Bhatkal: Mohammed Hashmath Raza S/o Mohammed Musheer Ahmed, student of Anjuman PU College for Boys, has scored 96.3% in the PUC I year Final Exam of year 2014. He has taken Commerce as his optional subject. Mr. Ahmed Diyab Kasimji S/O Nazeer Kas

Mangalore -- There are 15,62,321 voters in DK parliamentary constituency. With two more candidates withdrawing their nominations from the election fray on Saturday, which was the last day for withdrawing nominations, the Dakshina Kannada parliamentary constituency is left with 14 candidates who w

Almost two million more international passengers travelled through Dubai International than London Heathrow up until February Dubai Dubai International overtook London Heathrow as the world’s busiest airport for international passenger traffic just two months into the year. Almost two million mor

BLS centre moved to office opposite Deira City Centre Abu Dhabi: The centre providing Indian passport and visa services at Deira in Dubai will relocate to a new address from Saturday. The relocation was confirmed in a statement by the India Embassy on Thursday. The firm, BLS International Service

DHAKA: The dreaded Gayle storm never arrived but a furious hailstorm that lasted 27 minutes knocked the West Indies out of the ICC World T20 on Thursday. Sri Lanka, who had set a target of 161, advanced by the D/L method as West Indies, who needed to be 107 for 4 at the end of 13.5 overs, fell sh

A soldier shot dead three colleagues and injured 16 others at the US Army's Fort Hood base in Texas before killing himself, the military says. US media named the suspect as Ivan Lopez, 34, although his identity has not been officially confirmed. The gunman had served in Iraq and had mental healt

Chief Minister Siddaramaiah, on Wednesday, attacked the BJP’s prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi for his double standards on corruption. Modi has the likes of Yeddyurappa, Eshwarappa, Ananth Kumar and Sadananda Gowda, whenever he speaks in the State about graft, Siddaramaiah said. He was a