BANGALORE - The uncertainty over the fate of the 11 Bharatiya Janata Party rebel legislators in Karnataka continues with a split verdict on Monday by a two-member Bench of the Karnataka High Court on their disqualification. While Chief Justice J.S. Khehar upheld the October 10 action of the Speaker

Bhatkal - Around 11 feet long Python was caught near Al-Iman Masjid, Nagappa Naik Road in the afternoon by local youths. According to the sources, it was spotted when it was trying to enter one of the houses in the area. The Python which was weighing 19 Kilograms was later handed over to the Forest

Bhatkal - Bhatkal Inter Football Association (BIFA) wins Usmania Junior Football Tournament here at YMSA grounds, defeating Shaheen Magdoom in the Penalty Shoot-out after the match was ended in a goalless draw. Total 7 teams from Bhatkal have participated in this 3 days tournament. The winners BIFA

GUWAHATI - Freedom fighter Bholaram Das marked his 100th birthday this weekend, announcing he was going back to school. Mr. Das has enrolled for a PhD programme in Gauhati University, perhaps the oldest university student in the country. "In my 100 years, I have done many things in the sphere of soc

Bhatkal - First batch of Hajj pilgrims under Jakti Travels left Bhatkal on 16th October at 4:00 pm by Mumbai bound train. They are expected to board Jeddah flight from Mumbai International Airport on 17th October and reach Jeddah on the same night. 'Bhatkallys.com' prays Almighty for their safe jour

DUBAI - Exactly at the stroke of 1pm on Friday, Dubai Metro opened the gates of five new stations on the Red Line. Along with that came new weekend timings, increased frequency and reduced duration at each stop. Business Bay, First Gulf Bank, Sharaf DG, Nakheel and Jumeirah Lakes Towers are the five

Is the full-time MBA programme losing its sheen among young graduates? Universities and institutions offering full-time and part-time courses in MBA and observers ponder over the question in the wake of the global economic recessionary trend and the shift to alternative postgraduate programmes for

New Delhi - Over 2,700 shots of fireworks, 25 stacks of speakers producing 500,000 watts of sound and 1,200 moving lights combined with the majestic aerostatto create a spectacular closing ceremony of the Commonwealth Games, at the Jawaharlal Nehru, in New Delhi, on Thursday. Prince Edward, patron o

New Delhi, Oct 14 (PTI) The country''s competitors came out with flying colours and helped India finish a historic second in the final pecking order with more than 100 medals as the Commonwealth Games, that had a troubled build-up but proceeded smoothly thereafter, came to a close today. A record me

Bangalore - Karnataka Chief Minister B.S. Yeddyurappa on Thursday expectedly won a vote of confidence in the truncated state Assembly, a victory which will depend on the High Court's decision on the disqualification of 16 MLAs.Facing the second trial of strength in four days, Mr. Yeddyurappa's motio

Panaji -The Konkan Railway Corporation Ltd (KRCL) has launched diet food in select trains, a senior railway official daid today."Since the time we have introduced diet food, we are getting good response. There is a section of people who are conscious about their diet even in the journey," KRCL's Pub

It has been my considered view that December 6, 1992, would not have happened in the age of 24-hour news television. Through the forest of microphones and broadcast vans that would have swarmed the disputed site in Ayodhya, it would have been impossible for either the Uttar Pradesh government or the

DUBAI - The captain of a Qatar Airways flight from the Philippines to Qatar died of heart attack on Wednesday.Sources said the captain, a 43-year-old Indian national, apparently suffered a heart attack after the flight took off from Manila. The crew and a doctor on board tried to revive him, while t

The miracle occurred. Against all odds, the Chilean miners trapped 69 days underground were pulled out one by one from their pocket of survival in a hour-long journey from the centre of the earth. At the time of going to Press, 19 men from the 33 had been brought up in the capsule rightly dubbed The

LONDON: Unruffled composure over two decades, in the face of the world's most hostile attacks and the frenzied demands of a celebrity-fixated society, confirms the true greatness of Sachin Tendulkar.For a man in his 38th year, Tendulkar's appetite for runs remains unsated and his unrelenting determi

NEW DELHI: As the Centre pitched for thorough and quick subscriber verification exercise for security reason, the telecom operators on Wednesday assured the government of their cooperation in getting details of customers but asked the home ministry to ensure cellphone users were not harassed by the

BANGALORE: With the Karnataka high court ruling it will decide the plea by five independent MLAs against their disqualification on October 18, the fate of the B S Yeddyurappa government will remain uncertain until then despite Thursday's trust vote, which it's expected to win since the HC has also d

NEW DELHI: China recently started work on extending its rail link in Lhasa to its border with Nepal, but for India it might just be a red herring.In a development, which has alarmed officials and strategic community here, Beijing is simultaneously working on bringing its rail link right upto Nyangtr