Beijing: Authorities in central China say seven people have been killed and 13 injured in an explosion at a fireworks factory in Hunan province. The Liuyang city government says the blast occurred Wednesday morning due to ''illegal production.'' Such accidents are common, especially in the runup

New Delhi: The government has spent Rs 193 crore to renovate and repair bungalows of MPs in the past four years. In a written response to a question, Union Housing and Urban Affairs Minister Hardeep Singh Puri informed the Lok Sabha saying that there is no expenditure limit prescribed for such renov

Bengaluru: The crucial byelection to 15 Karnataka assembly constituencies that would have a bearing on the stability of the B S Yediyurappa-led BJP government saw an estimated 66.49 per cent voter turn out on Thursday and was by and large peaceful. After a slow pace in the first half of the day s

Bengaluru: BJP candidate K C Ramamurthy was on Thursday declared elected unopposed to the lone Rajya Sabha seat from Karnataka, for which bypoll was necessitated following his resignation as the Congress member. “With other political parties not fielding any candidates, and nomination of two inde

In a sudden development in the gangrape and murder case of a vet in Hyderabad, the four accused in the case – Areef, Shiva, Naveen and Chennakeshavulu – have been shot dead by the Telangana police in a reported encounter. Police said that the accused, who were taken to the scene of the crime for a r

The United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP25) opened in Madrid on Monday with the largest scientific community on climate science warning that the planet’s ability to adapt to and cope with how it is being treated is fraying and that the impact of the climate crisis is far more significant th

سلیکان ویلی: مشہورِ زمانہ میسیجنگ، کالنگ اور سوشل پلیٹ فارم ’’واٹس ایپ‘‘ نے ایک بار پھر سے ازخود ختم ہوجانے والے پیغامات کا آپشن متعارف کروانے کی تیاری شروع کردی ہے۔ تاہم یہ سہولت ابھی صرف اس کے نئے بی ٹا ورژن ہی میں دستیاب ہے جسے ’’گوگل پلے بی ٹا پروگرام‘‘ سے رجسٹرڈ صارفین ہی ڈاؤن لوڈ کرسکتے ہیں۔

ایک نیو ز ویب سائٹ کے مطابق سوشل میڈیا پر وائرل ہو رہے ایک پیغام کو لے کر عوام میں خوف کا ماحول ہے۔ وائرل میسج میں کہا گیا ہے کہ 2016 میں نوٹ بندی کے بعد مارکیٹ میں آئے دو ہزار کی کرنسی کو اب بند کر دیا گیا ہے۔ اس پیغام میں یہ بھی دعوی کیا جا رہا ہے کہ حکومت ایک ہزار کا نوٹ پھر سے واپس لا

مرکزی حج کمیٹی کی جانب سے اس سال سفر حج کا ارادہ رکھنے والے عازمین حج کیلئے راحت کی خبر ہے۔حج کمیٹی آف انڈیا کیحج 2020 کے لئے درخواست فارم بھرنے کی تاریخ میں توسیع کردی گئی ہے ۔ حج درخواست فارم بھرنے کی آخری تاریخ میں مزید 12 روز کا اضافہ کیاگیا۔اب حج درخواست فارم داخل کرنے کی آخری تاریخ میں 17 دسم

Yellapur 5 December 2019: The voting process for the Karnataka Assembly by-polls went on smoothly in the Yellapur-Mundgod Assembly constituency on Thursday, December 5. The constituency, which is one out of 15 other constituencies where by-polls are being conducted, covers three taluks namely, Yella

Bhatkal: Karnataka Coast division of Indian Coast Guard has rescued more than 250 distressed fishermen in a major operation on Wednesday, December 3. As many as 264 fishermen were stranded in an area 225 – 250 nautical miles (450 – 470 Km) away from Coast owing to two cyclonic streams in the Arab

Kannur: Twenty gold biscuits worth Rs 90 lakh and found abandoned were seized from a flight that arrived here from Abu Dhabi early on Wednesday, airport sources said. Security personnel noticed a packet underneath a seat of the Go Air flight during an inspection after all passengers disembarked a

At least 18 Indians were among 23 people killed in an LPG tanker blast that destroyed a ceramic factory in Sudan, the Indian mission said here on Wednesday. Over 130 were injured. Sixteen Indians were missing after the incident at the Seela Ceramic Factory in Bahri area in the Sudanese capital Kh

Traffic police in Bengaluru on Tuesday went on a crackdown against errant autorickshaw drivers who refused to ply on metered fares or denied rides in three out of the seven zones of the city. To catch offenders in the act, police officials posed as regular commuters in prime junctions under these zo

  Eighteen Indians on board a Hong Kong-flagged vessel were kidnapped by pirates near the Nigerian coast, said a global agency tracking maritime developments in the region. Sources said that following the reports of kidnapping of the Indians, the Indian mission in Nigeria has approached t

Dharavi: The Shiv Sena is grappling with a miffed Bharatiya Janata Party following the Maharashtra political staccato after the former scrapped its ‘Mahayuti’ alliance with the ruling party at the Centre and formed a coalition ‘Maha Vikas Aghadi’ government with the Nationalist Congress Party and Co

Bengaluru: Noted Kannada poet and writer Dr. H S Venkateshmurthy was on Wednesday selected to preside over the 3-day 85th Akhil Bharat Kannada Sahitya Sammelan that is slated to be held in Kalaburagi between February 5 –7. Venkateshmurthy’s name was decided during a meeting of Kannada Sahitya

Bhatkal 4 December 2019: As the Minority Welfare Department of Karnataka, rolled back pre-matric scholarship due to lack of funds, Student Islamic Organization of India, (SIO) Bhatkal Unit submitted a memorandum to Tahsildar of Bhatkal regarding release of pre-matric Scholarship for the year 2019-20