Karnataka

Mangaluru, Apr 20: Health and Family Welfare Minister UT Khader has proposed a 200-bed referral civil hospital outside Mangaluru taluk in Dakshina Kannada district. Speaking to media persons on the sidelines of a programme, the minister said that the proposal aims at addressing the increasing need of specialised healthcare services for poor patients from Bantwal, Belthangady and Puttur taluks. The

Bengaluru, Apr 20: Caught off guard by sudden eruption of violence during the garment workers' protest over the Provident Fund issue, authorities have deployed central forces in the city and clamped prohibitory orders. Rapid Action Force personnel today staged a flag march along the Jalahalli Cross stretch, one of the worst-hit by the violence yesterday, even as police arrested about 50 persons in

Ahmedabad, Apr 20: A Jet Airways Mumbai-Ahmedabad -Mumbai flight carrying 125 passengers and six crew members was today delayed after a bomb scare, which later turned out to be a hoax even as one person was detained after a chit with "bomb" written on it was recovered from under his seat. The flight from Mumbai to Ahmedabad was taken to the isolation bay immediately after it landed here this

Muzaffarnagar, Apr 20: A Shiv Sena leader from communally sensitive Muzaffarnagar district, who once had pledged to eliminate Islam from India, has now relinquished Hindutva and embraced Islam. Sushil Kumar Jain, a resident of Khatauli in Muzaffarnagar, was the former district-unit president of Shiv Sena said the reason for the conversion was his search for inner peace. After embracing Islam, he

Nagpur, Apr 20: The Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh is planning to conduct cultural and moral science classes for kids every Sunday at 5,000 centres across the country. RSS sources said that the Sunday classes are as part of the corrective measure for what it feels is lack of sentiment for the “country”. The RSS feels the younger generation no longer values the sentiments of the country, and plans to

Dubai, Apr 20: A Melbourne-Delhi Air India (AI) flight was forced to divert to Singapore after a rat scare, but pest controllers have been unable to trap the rat, according to reports in Indian media. "When the aircraft was diverted to Singapore last Saturday (April 16), passengers were deplaned. After that the plane (VT-ANV) was taken to a remote bay at Changi Airport. We got the local pest

Mangaluru, Apr 20: The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) is all set to commence its reinvestigation into the mysterious death of former Mangaluru Khazi CM Abdulla Moulavi in 2010, after a court in Eranakulam on the other day ordered for a probe into the incident. The Eranakulam Chief Judicial Magistrate Court order on Friday last came while disposing of a petition by CA Mohammed Shafi, son of

Hassan, Apr 20: Acting on a tip off, the police intercepted four vehicles and rescued 115 cattle that were being transported to slaughter houses at Baraguru handpost near Channarayapatna in Hassan on Tuesday. However, 14 calves died of asphyxiation, it is said. Police seized the vehicles and the driver of one of them (from Yasin Nagar in Holenarsipur) has been taken into custody. The other three

Bengaluru, Apr 19: Amazonbusiness.in, the business-to-business (B2B) platform of e-commerce giant Amazon, on Tuesday announced it has partnered with yoga guru Ramdev's Patanjali group to become the wholesaler of its products in Bengaluru and Mangurlu. "We expect this partnership to benefit retailers in Bengaluru and Mangaluru tremendously. This partnership will immensely benefit Patanjali by

Mangaluru, Apr 19: Minister for Health and Family Welfare U T Khader on Tuesday inaugurated the renovated building for physiotherapy wing and District Early Intervention Centre (DEIC) at Wenlock Hospital in Mangaluru. Speaking on the occasion the minister advised the doctors in the government hospitals to respect the patients and warned that action would be initiated against doctors who fail to