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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

Times Square bomber sentenced to life in prison

A Pakistani-born US citizen who tried to set off a car bomb in New York's busy Times Square has been sentenced on Tuesday to life in prison.Faisal Shahzad, 31, pleaded guilty in June to a failed May 1 bombing in Midtown Manhattan. He admitted to investigators he received bomb-making training from th

A verdict that legitimises the Masjid demolition

The absence of any condemnation of the vandalism of the demolition of the Babri Masjid on December 6, 1992 is a conspicuous aspect of the Ayodhya verdict of the Allahabad High Court.The Supreme Court in its judgment of 1994 said of the demolition: "Within a short time, the entire structure was demol

Oman's Indian Community Eid Milan a resounding hit

Muscat - A good turn out marked the annual Indian Community Eid Milan 2010 held recently at Indian School, Al Ghubra. The superbly organised eid Milan was organised by Embassy of India, Eid Milan Committee and the Indian Social Club. It was an honour for Bhatkal community that Aftab Kola was the co-

Nobel for father of test tube baby

Oct. 4: British test tube baby pioneer, Prof. Robert G. Edwards, was on Monday awarded the Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine. His pioneering work led to the birth of the world's first test-tube baby Louise Brown in Britain in 1978. Eighty-five-year-old Professor Edwards, pensioner fellow at Chur

Foundation stone laid for new English School in Murdeshwar

Murdeshwar - Murdeshwar Muslim Education Society's former President Mr. Chadkhan Siddi Mohammed and his son Chadkhan Khwaja Sahab have laid the foundation stone of a school named 'The New English School' at a brief ceremony held here at National High School Grounds, Murdeshwar. The Muslim Education

Two persons injured after stabbing incident

Bhatkal - Two persons injured including one seriously when they were attacked by two other persons yesterday night around 9:00 pm here at Hanuman Nagar, Bhatkal. The injured have been identified as Habeebullah Kodi (26) and Mohammed Sadique Kodsali. According to the sources, Habeebullah has given mo