DUBAI: Defending champions India were knocked out of the ICC Under-19 World Cup in the quarterfinal by England at the Dubai International Cricket Stadium on Saturday. Electing to bat, India posted 221/8 in their 50 overs which was chased down by the English side with five balls and three wickets

New Delhi Feb 20, 2014: Students from across various campuses of Delhi gathered at Jantar Mantar today to form a human chain as part of World day of Social Justice. February 20 is observed across the globe as World day of Social Justice by United Nations. Speaking on the occasion, National Secret

Chief Minister Siddaramaiah, on Thursday, assured the Legislative Council that there should be no shortage of drinking water during summer in City.  Siddaramaiah, who is also minister in-charge for Bangalore, said the government has earmarked Rs 66 crore for the purpose of ensuring adequate potab

Multiple vulnerabilities have been detected in popular web browsers Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox and cyber security sleuths have advised Internet users in the Indian cyberspace to guard against arbitrary activities on their systems. In view of these suspicious virus-based activities, Interne

UAE: Muslims banking on a holiday to Mars will have to cancel their plans after religious clerics took the time out of their schedule to issue a decisive decree on space travel. A fatwa issued by the General Authority of Islamic Affairs and Endowment in the UAE claimed a trip to the red planet wa

Lakhs of people across the country are being asked to re-enrol for Aadhaar following data errors and mismatch of their biometrics. Following complaints from some Bangaloreans that they have been asked to re-enrol for Aadhaar, Deccan Herald spoke to Ashok M R Dalwai, Deputy Director General, Uniqu

Jeddah: The Coast Guard and Saudi Aramco saved 11 Indian seamen Tuesday from a cargo tugboat that caught fire off Jubail in the Eastern Province. The boat had departed from the Kasphap port in Oman on Monday with some 800 goats and was headed to Kuwait via Saudi waters. Col. Khaled Al-Arqubi,

Saudi Arabia will hold a day of solidarity on Tuesday Feb. 25 to help raise funds and improve international humanitarian aid for Syrian children living in abject conditions because of the civil war in their country. Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Abdullah has given instructions for the orga

MUMBAI: How different is a course in digital communication from one in digital communications? Or a diploma in travel & tourism from a diploma in travel and tourism? Yet, these are listed as separate courses in the All India Council for Technical Education's manual guiding engineering studies.

Nokia's anticipated first Android phone, believed to be dubbed Nokia X (and codenamed Normandy), has again been listed on a Vietnamese online retailer. The alleged Nokia X has been listed with model number A110 and is priced at roughly $110 (Rs. 6,800 approximately). However, there is no word on

Feb 20, 2014 | Bhatkallys News ALIGARH/Murshidabad: “Education is the only trusted tool for empowerment and it alone helps people to build a respectable career and character”, said the President of India, Shri Pranab Mukherjee today at Murshidabad in West Bengal. He was addressing at a programme

The Tamil Nadu government on Wednesday ordered the release of seven convicts in the Rajiv Gandhi assassination case, a day after the Supreme Court commuted the capital punishment of three of them to life imprisonment. Besides Santhan, Murugan (husband of another convict Nalini) and Perarivalan, w

More than 850,000 people in Somalia are in desperate need of food and "in crisis and emergency conditions," the director of UN humanitarian operations said today. John Ging, who just returned from a three-day visit to Somalia, said another two million Somalis are considered to be "food insecure."

Illegal expatriates continue to operate stalls in various parts of Jeddah's commercial areas despite the labor raids over the past five months, citizens claim. These expatriates run stalls in Al-Alawi, Al-Nada and Al-Sahifa districts, and near the gold markets in Qabel Street, they say. Mohamm

MUMBAI: Soon students will be able to make more informed choices on the courses they wish to pursue. A system to accredit individual programmes offered by colleges and universities is being put in place by the Union human resources development ministry. Under the Rashtriya Ucchatar Shikshan

New Delhi, 18 Feb 2014: Saudi Arab’s Minister of Islamic Affairs, Endowments, Da’wah, and Guidance, Salih ibn Abdul Aziz ibn Muhammad Al-Shaykh visited the headquarters of Jamaat-e-Islami Hind here on Monday. A program was organized in the honour of the Saudi minister who was accompanied with a Saud

NEW DELHI: The country's biggest car makers, Maruti Suzuki India (MSI) and Hyundai Motor India, on Wednesday cut prices after excise duty on automobiles was reduced in the interim budget. While MSI's price cuts range between Rs 8,502 and Rs 30,984 across its models, Hyundai has slashed prices by

GENEVA: One hundred and thirty-four journalists and media support staff were killed while on reporting assignments last year, with India fourth on the list of countries with the most number of deaths, the London-based International News Safety Institute (INSI) said on Tuesday. Most of those kille