Bhatkal - 21 Oct 2011: A powerful blast rocked house in Murdeshwar on Friday morning at around 11:00 am. The blast was so powerful that, the roof of the house was blown-off and several nearby houses were also damaged. According to the house owner, Mr Raghavendra Gudigar, the blast occurred due to cy

Bangalore - 21 Oct 2011: Hundreds of Bangaloreans Thursday evening hopped onto the sleek air-conditioned coaches of the Metro rail for a joy ride and get a bird's eye view of the tech hub as the service was opened to commuters for the first time. Even an hour before the scheduled start of the servi

New Delhi: Darul Uloom Deoband, the centuries old Islamic seminary of the Indian subcontinent, has strongly objected to the allegations about the seminary getting funds from the Saudi government and it being a source of radicalization of Muslim youths in India. Talking to TwoCircles.net from Deob

Bangalore - 20 Oct 2011 (DNA): Twenty-five lakh families who face the threat of their LPG gas connections being scrapped could heave a sigh relief as chief minister DV Sadananda Gowda on Wednesday assured that the move has been put on hold for now. The assurance comes in the wake of anxiety that

Sirte/Cairo - 20 Oct 2011:Muammar Gaddafiwas killed on Thursday as Libya's new leaders declared they had overrun the last bastion of his long rule, sparking wild celebrations that eight months of war may finally be over.Details of the death near Sirte of the fallen strongman were hazy but it was ann

Ahmedabad - 19 Oct 2011: The degree inMaster of Business Administration (MBA), which was a craze with most students in the country till recently, seems to have become passe. An enquiry into the drop in the rush of applicants for theCommon Aptitude Test (CAT)in the recent years has revealed that stud

Bangalore - 19 Oct 20-11: In a dramatic development former chief minister B SYeddyurappahas been discharged from state-runVictoria Hospitaland moved to Parappanna Agrahara Central Prison this morning.Yeddyurappa, to evade jail, shifted from Jayadeva Hospital to Victoria Hospital on Tuesday evening a

Mangalore - 18 Oct 2011: A worker was killed and at least three others injured, one of them critically, when paint caught fire at a construction site of the Mangalore Refinery and Petrochemicals Ltd. (MRPL) on Tuesday morning. A group of workers was applying paint to a huge over-ground crude oil t

Hongkong/Seoul - 19 Oct 2011: The global launch of the Galaxy Nexus kicks off in November and comes as competition intensifies between Samsung and Apple Inc to win market share in the booming tablets and smartphones industry. Samsung and Google introduced the high-end model at an event in Hong Kong,

Ranchi - 19 Oct 2011: Three people including pilot, co-pilot and a technical staff ofBorder Security Force(BSF) died when a helicopter crashed on Wednesday morning in the jungles near Ranchi-Khunti border.The chopper crashed at around 9 am and all the three people on board died. The chopper crashed

Bhatkal - 18 Oct 2011: Bhatkal community in Mumbai celebrated first ever Eid Milan under the auspices of BMJ-Mumbai here at Narang House on Sunday, 16th October at 9:00 pm. The program was started with the Qirat of Hafiz Mohammed Junaid. Shakeel Kharuri rendered Hamd while Yunus Sukri introduced the

Bangalore, Oct 18 (IANS) Former Karnataka chief minister B.S. Yeddyurappa, arrested Saturday in corruption cases, Tuesday avoided going back to jail as he got himself shifted to a second hospital amid high drama.The 68-year-old Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader was taken to Victoria Hospital in th

Ahmedabad - 18 Oct 2011: Suspended Gujarat cadre IPS officer Sanjiv Bhatt on Monday walked out of the Sabarmati central jail to an enthusiastic welcome after being granted bail by the Ahmedabad sessions court. Judge V.K. Vyas granted the bail on condition that Mr. Bhatt would co-operate with the in

Bhatkal - 18 Oct 2011: Majlis Islah -o- Tanzeem's Aam Ijlas which was scheduled on Monday, 16th October was postponed indefinitely due to unavailability of required Quorum. According to Tanzeem President, Mr Parvez Kasimji, only 16 executive members out of 62 and 15 members out of 526 turned up for

Mangalore, Bhatkal Oct 18: A division bench of the state High Court, on Monday October 17, stayed operation of an order passed by a single judge bench of the High Court, entrusting the case relating to the murder of city-based advocate, Naushad Kashimji, to Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI). The

After a long illness,Dennis Ritchie, father of Unix and an esteemed computer scientist, died last weekend at the age of 70. Ritchie, also known as "dmr", is best know for creating the C programming language as well as being instrumental in the development of UNIX along with Ken Thompson. Ritchie sp

An International Conference of all Bhatkali Jamats around the globe was held at Calicut early this year in which several resolutions / recommendations were passed and among them one which was passed unanimously with utmost severity and sincerity was the resolution on Qurbani which is as follows, It

Dubai - 16 Oct 2011 (AB): EMKE Group boss Yussuffali MA has topped the list of theGCC's 100 most powerful Indians, published by Arabian Business today. The group, which owns the Lulu chain of hypermarkets, is headquartered in Abu Dhabi and has offices in 29 countries, employs around 27,000 people -