Search results
Search results for ''
News Categories
Blackberry services to continue in UAE
The United Arab Emirates will not suspend BlackBerry services on October 11 after resolving a dispute with its Canadian maker Research in Motion over access to email and other data, reports WAM on Friday.The UAE had said it would suspend BlackBerry Messenger, email and web browser services to about
Muslim body rejects any reconciliation bid over Ayodhya
New Delhi - A body of Muslim scholars and clerics from Delhi and Uttar Pradesh today rejected the verdict of the Allahabad High Court on the Ayodhya title suit or any reconciliation bid and demanded that the Centre clear its stand on the issue. Led by Shahi Imam of the Delhi Jama Masjid Maulana Syed
Dissident MLAs in Karnataka may be served notice: BJP
New Delhi - BJP today said its dissident MLAs in Karnataka, who had raised a banner of revolt against Chief Minister B S Yeddyurappa, may be served a notice under anti-defection law if they did not fall in line. "We are confident that the crisis in Karnataka will be resolved soon.We would like to wa
Shooters bag 12th gold for India at Commonwealth Games
NEW DELHI: Shooters Vijay Kumar and Gurpreet Singh bagged the first gold of the day and women won the first ever archery medal at theCommonwealth Games on Thursday, taking India's gold tally to 12 and overall medal kitty to 25. Vijay Kumar and Gurpeet Singh's gold came in the 25-metre pistol pairs
Anisa Sayyed: From ticket-checker to shooting champion
New Delhi - Anisa Sayyed has shot to fame with the gold medal which she won along with Rahi in the shooting event at Commonwealth Games.It has not been an easy journey for the shooter who hails from Pune. She was employed with the Indian Railways and checked passenger tickets at Vile Parle station i
India to launch six nulcear reactors in next 2-3 years
New Delhi- India is expected to launch six more nuclear reactors in the next two to three years, a top government atomic scientist said here."Six more reactors are scheduled to be launched in the next two or three years," Principal Scientific Adviser to the Government of India R Chidamabaram said he
Facebook offers new way to sort friends
PALO ALTO, California - Facebook is introducing tools that will make it easier for people to separate their online friendships into different groups and copy all the personal information they have posted on the Website.The new features will start rolling out to Facebook's more than 500 million
Sachin wins Sir Garfield Sobers Award
BANGALORE - Sachin Tendulkar capped a fine year with the most coveted cricketing reward in recent times 'The Sir Garfield Sobers Cricketer of the Year' Award as the maestro glittered bright amidst a galaxy of leading players at the LG ICC Awards night here on Wednesday. Tendulkar became the second I
Rahul equates RSS with SIMI
Bhopal /New Delhi - Incensed over being equated with SIMI, RSS hit out at Rahul saying he needs to learn more about the country before making such "meaningless" statements.In unusually strident remarks, Rahul Gandhi on Wednesday equated the RSS with banned terror outfit, the Students Islamic Movemen
Trio wins Nobel for key chemical tool
STOCKHOLM - An American and two Japanese scientists won the Nobel Prize in chemistry on Wednesday for finding new ways to bond carbon atoms together, methods now widely used to make medicines and in agriculture and electronics.Richard Heck, Ei-ichi Negishi and Akira Suzuki were honored for their dev
Dist level football Tournament: BIFA loses in the final
Karwar - Karwar defeated Bhatkal Inter-Football Association (BIFA) 1-0 in the finals of the Dist level flood lights football tournament being played here at Karwar. In the recently concluded tournament, 11 strong teams from all over the district have been participated. Earlier in the quarter-finals,
Bhatkal Police bids adieu to Chandrappa Lamani
Bhatkal - Bhatkal Police paid its last respect to Chandrappa Lamani, a constable who died in an accident while chasing a vehicle today. His dead body arrived in Bhatkal at 6:00 pm from Kundapur where the post-mortem was carried out. In a brief ceremony held at Police Grounds, large number of people
Pressure mounts on AIMPLB for reconciliation
NEW DELHI: Notwithstanding the dismay and disquiet among Muslims over the Allahabad high court verdict on Babri Masjid, a group of some Muslim organization and a small section of All India Muslim Personal Law Board (AIMPLB) are reportedly engaged in the reconciliation move.Though the little known Al
Karnataka Crisis: Yeddyurappa to prove majority on Oct 11
Bangalore - Embattled Karnataka Chief Minister B S Yeddyurappa, whose government plunged into a major crisis after 19 MLAs withdrew their support, today said he will prove his majority in the Assembly on October 11, a day ahead of the deadline set by Governor H R Bhardwaj. "I have requested the gove
Jamatul Muslimeen's Tableegh unit to conduct Hajj training camp on 8th October
Bhatkal - Jamatul Muslimeen Bhatkal's Tableegh unit is conducting a Hajj training camp on Friday, 8th October here at Jamia Masjid, Bhatkal after Asr prayers. Several prominent ulemas will interact with the audience on this occasion and give important instructions regarding Hajj. Administrator of th
Policeman killed another injured while chasing a vehicle
Bhatkal - One policeman killed another injured when a mini-lorry carrying animals hit their bike here at Sultan street, Bhatkal in the early hours today. Locals rushed both the injured cops to Bhatkal Govt Hospital. After getting initial treatment over there, seriously injured cop was taken to Manip
Laxman, Ishant pull off a spectacular one-wicket victory for India
Mohali: In one of the most dramatic comebacks in India's cricket Test history, VVS Laxman and Ishant Sharma pulled off a spectacular one-wicket victory over Australia in the first Test at the Mohali Cricket Stadium.Laxman, suffering from a back spasm, literally carried India on his injured back with
Russian scientists win 2010 physics Nobel
Two Russian-born scientists shared the 2010 Nobel Prize for physics for showing how carbon just one atom thick behaved, a breakthrough with implications for areas from quantum physics to consumer electronics.Andre Geim and Konstantin Novoselov, both with the University of Manchester, conducted exper