Hyderabad: Around 60 prominent national, state and district level leaders of the Telugu Desam Party (TDP) along with thousands of party workers on Sunday joined the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) here in presence of BJP working president J P Nadda. "It is a very, very good sign as far as the Telang

New Delhi: Prime minister Narendra Modi will visit the Gulf nations of United Arab Emirates and Bahrain on 23-25 August, India’s foreign ministry said on Sunday, as New Delhi strives to sustain the tempo of bilateral relations with the economically and politically critical region. The two visits

Another door slammed shut on controversial preacher Zakir Naik as Melaka recently became the seventh Malaysian state to ban his religious speeches. Malaysian media reported that Melaka's Chief Minister Adly Zahari ordered the ban and stated that he did not wish for any development that could pote

Washington: Afghanistan has come down heavily on Pakistan for trying to link the Kashmir issue with the Afghan peace process, calling it a ‘poor excuse’. Rejecting Islamabad’s claim that the Kashmir issue could likely have an impact on the ongoing Afghan-Taliban peace process, Kabul said it was a "r

New Delhi: Several Union ministers including Rajnath Singh, Smriti Irani and Jitendra Singh, and Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal visited AIIMS here on Sunday to enquire about the health condition of former finance minister Arun Jaitley, who is on life support system. Jaitley, 66, was admitte

WhatsApp is adding an update to its latest beta that adds the "WhatsApp from Facebook" tag to the application. This comes less than a week after the Facebook-owned platform started rolling out a feature called "Fingerprint lock" for its Android beta users. The tag is visible under WhatsApp's Setting

In a video that has gone viral on social media, a group of pro-Kannada activists can be seen shouting slogans against the exclusion of Kannada in a hoarding that was in Hindi. As the sloganeering continues, several activists can be seen climbing a ladder and slashing the hoarding with knives. The

Manki 18 August 2019:(Bhatkallys News Bureau) Depressed over financial crisis, a fisherman from Manki commits suicide here at his residence on Saturday morning. The deceased has been identified as Mohan Naik (46), resident of Ananteadi of Manki. According to sources, Mohan had no source of ear

بھٹکل: 18 اگست، 19 (بھٹکلیس نیوز بیورو) انجمن حامئی مسلمین کے صد سالہ اجلاس کی کڑی کے طور پر اقلیتی تعلیمی اداروں کو درپیش مسائل اور اس کا حل کے موضوع پر منعقد دو روزہ سیمنار کا آج شام اختتام ہوگیا ہے۔   اس موقع پر انجمن آباد میں آج صبح مولانا سید مصطفی رفاعی ندوی کے ہاتھوں انجمن بوائز ہا

Mangaluru: Train services between Mangaluru and Bengaluru will be delayed for another ten days. Following the torrential rains on August 8, in Subrahmanya, Sakleshpur and Hassan, multiple landslides occurred blocking the tracks. Hills caved in on both sides of the tracks near Yedakumeri railway s

 نیویارک:  امریکا میں مسافر بردار چھوٹا طیارہ ایک گھر پر گر تباہ ہوگیا جس کے نتیجے میں طیارے میں سوار ایک شخص ہلاک اور 2 زخمی ہوگئے جب کہ گھر میں آتشزدگی کے باعث 2 مکین ہلاک اور ایک زخمی ہوگئے۔ بین الااقوامی خبر رساں ادارے کے مطابق امریکا میں ایک چھوٹا طیارہ پائلٹ اور 2 مسافروں کو لے کر محو پ

Amidst a messy trade war between China and the US, telecom manufacturer Huawei has found itself in a tricky spot. US' trade restrictions have forceed the company to scramble to build its operating system and change its supply chain to reduce reliance on US-made tech. The US government did provide in

Kabul: At least 63 people were killed and 182 wounded in an explosion targeting a wedding in the Afghan capital, authorities said Sunday. "Among the wounded are women and children," interior ministry spokesman Nasrat Rahimi said, hours after a massive blast tore through a wedding hall in Kabul la

Thousands of teachers join anti-government protests in Hong Kong The unrest began in June in opposition to a now-suspended extradition bill, and have since grown to include broader demands. Thousands of school teachers joined an 11th weekend of anti-government protests in Hong Kong on Saturday

BJP MP and artiste Hans Raj Hans on Saturday said that Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) should be renamed after Prime Minister Narendra Modi as ‘MNU’. The BJP North West Delhi legislator, who was at the University to perform at an event ‘Ek shaam shaheedon ke naam’, also hit out at the Nehru-Gan

Thousands of people have been detained in Kashmir over fears of outbreaks of unrest after the BJP government stripped of the special status to the State two weeks ago, government sources told AFP. A magistrate speaking to AFP on condition of anonymity said at least 4,000 people were arrested and

Five students aged 14-16 years were electrocuted to death in a freak mishap on the terrace of a residential school building in Karnataka's Koppal town, police said on Sunday. "The tragic incident occurred when the boys were removing a 15-feet iron pole mounted on a mud-filled drum used to hoist t

An Asian executive has landed in a court in Fujairah on charges of swearing at a colleague of the same nationality on Facebook. As per court records, the case unfolded when the defendant defamed the complainant by typing an improper comment on a personal image the latter posted on her Facebook ac