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Mangalore, Jan 12: Islamic Education Centre for Women organised an Islamic conference on 'Quran for all' at Town Hall here on January 8. Speakers Salaluddin Abdul Khadir from Preston International College, Chennai, Athar Khan and Shuaib Sayyed of Peace TV delivered talks. The organizers distributed English and Kannada Quran for non-Muslims. Separate session for ladies and an open question and...

Jammu and Kashmir may have failed to hog media headlines in recent times, but stories of personal tragedy have continued to unfold in the picturesque valley, without respite. These are stories of young men who the government and the army believe to be 'terrorists' who got what they deserved. But the relatives of these 'terrorists' insist it was atrocities by the State that pushed these men into...

Mangalore, Jan 11: Crescent English Medium High School under the aegis of Crescent Welfare Centre conducted its annual day recently in the city. President of Crescent Welfare B Ahmed Haji Muhyuddin presided over the function. City Mayor Gulzar Banu, Retired government officer J R Lobo were the chief guests. Entrepreneur A Sadananda Shetty launched the school website on the occasion. General...

Kollur, Jan 11: Singer K.J. Yesudas celebrated his 73rd birthday on Thursday by offering prayers at Kollur Sri Mookambika Temple. Mr. Yesudas with wife Prabha and singer son Vijay Yesudas reached the temple late on Wednesday and gave special offerings to the deity. A concert led by popular musician Kanhangad Ramachadran was held near the Saraswati Mandapam on Thursday morning. Mr. Yesudas rendered...

Udupi, Jan 9: A 45-year-old Congress activist was allegedly abducted from Goliangady in Udupi district on January 7. His mother Shringeshwari Adiga has accused her neighbours of kidnapping him. According to a complaint given by Shringeshwari Adiga, her son, Vasudeva Adiga (45), left home on his motorcycle on January 7 and had not returned. Later, when family members searched for him, Mr. Adiga’s...

Udupi, Jan 9: The Tulukoota will be organising the second annual Malpe Ramdas Samaga Memorial Tulu Yakshagana Festival at the Muddana Mantapa on MGM College campus here from January 10 to 12. President of Tulukoota Jayakar Shetty Indrali told presspersons here on Tuesday that two Tulu Yakshagana episodes would be staged and a Tulu “Tala Maddale” would be held as part of the festival. The artistes...

Panaji, Jan 8: Even as the country debates ways to rein in sex offenders, a pharmacology research scientist here has hit the streets of Goa equipping women with a weapon to beat perverts at their own game. Lanky Sudeep Dalvi has started a campaign in the state to sell cans of pepper spray to women at cost price. The cans, Dalvi says, will be made available at all bus stations and colleges across...

Consumers and businesses spend billions of dollars every year on anti-virus software. But these programs rarely, if ever, block freshly minted computer viruses, experts say, because the virus creators move too quickly. “The bad guys are always trying to be a step ahead,” said Matthew D Howard, a venture capitalist at Norwest Venture Partners. “And it doesn"t take a lot to be a step ahead.”...

Kozhikode, Jan 7: The first hip-hop song of the band Mappila Lahala – Native Bapa - launched online on the New Year eve has been listed among the popular videos of Youtube with more than 100,000 views in just six days. The album quite effectively questions the global trend of branding anything and everything related to Muslim names to terror and vehemently criticises the media culture forming such...

Christmas might have kissed us goodbye, but offers haven"t. To our surprise this time, it"s the Cupertino based tech-giant, Apple, which has finally decided to make its products affordable for our fellow proletariats, who cannot afford the inordinately priced "iProducts". Though it"s still not clear when Apple placed its 15-inch MacBook Pro with Retina display on company"s “Certified Refurbished”...