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Mangalore, May 21: City based entrepreneur and builder P M Abdul Khader passed away at the age of 58 in the wee hours of Monday. He is the brother P M A Razak, the chairman and managing director of Plama Developers Ltd. He is survived by his wife and three daughters. Originally from Katipalla, he was a resident of Falnir. A partner of Plama Builders, Khader had been serving as a trustee of Noorul...

Mangalore, May 20: Sulthan Gold ,Kankanady Bye pass road , Mangalore has opened exclusive section for Azwa and temple collections. Azwa collection from world gold council at sulthan gold was inaugurated by A.J.Shetty, Chairman and MD, A.J.Hospital and Mrs. Lekshmi Shetty. Temple collection section was opened by Vidya Manjunath , MD Manjunath Rubber and Dr.Asha Jyothi Rai Chairperson Chirayu...

Columbus, May 7: On our way to Makkah from Jeddah, I was surprised at the traffic. What was wrong? Everyone was actually driving within the speed limit and in their lanes. There were no cars on the shoulder. I was here for Umrah from the United States, visiting the Kingdom after seven years. “There are cameras everywhere. You get snapped and fined, if you break the law. I have received speeding...

There have been some famous prison memoirs, but Dr. Anwar Ali Javed Ali Khan's took an educational tack. His book “Learn Urdu in 30 days,” now into its third edition, is quite popular and he gets requests from as far as the U.S. for this primer of sorts. If Dr. Khan didn't pour out grim reminiscences of his eight years in prison after his arrest on terror charges, that's because he's the man he is...

When they marry off their daughter Farzana on Sunday, Madhava Reddy and Lakshmi Reddy will have set a new benchmark for secularism. The couple raised Farzana, who lost her parents, from the age of four as their own child and according to Islamic traditions Take heart. All is not lost yet. There are still people around who stand by values, pluralism and tolerance. While most cry hoarse about...

JUST A day after the Boston Marathon terror attack and less than a month after twin blasts rocked Hyderabad, 17 people were injured in a low-intensity blast near the Karnataka BJP's office in Bengaluru. Among the injured were 11 policemen who had been deployed there as it was the last day of filing nominations for the upcoming Assembly election on 5 May. While the police are yet to ascertain who...

Bangalore, Apr 18: Two candidates in the fray for the May 5 Assembly polls in Karnataka were arrested on Thursday on different counts, one of them for allegedly threatening an election officer. Munirathnam Naidu, a city corporator and Congress candidate, and Venkatesh Gowda from the Karnataka Janata Paksha (KJP), both contesting from Rajarajeshwarinagar assembly constituency, were arrested, police...

The legend of some of the kings continues in different forms and is used by different political formations. These political formations draw their identity from the past and project it on the present. These sectarian streams have been using the names of different kings and glorifying them in various ways. There is a hidden message of a politics behind such efforts, as they eulogize the pre-colonial...

Most of the countries of South Asia have faced the barbaric problem of violence targeted against religious minorities. The form of this may have been different, but the outcome has been similar, the brutality against religious minorities, violence against innocent human beings. The current times (Mid 2013) may be one of the worst when in the spate of short span of we are witness to violence in...

Lucknow, May 3: A 23-year-old woman delivered a baby in the examination hall at a government school in Azamgarh on Tuesday. The student was taking the class X UP board Sanskrit exam at the Intermediate College, Sathiyaon in Azamgarh. According to reports, Poonam, who is studying in class X in Indravati Devi Senior Secondary School, Mahrukh, Azamgarh, was writing her paper on Tuesday morning at...