Karnataka

Mangaluru, Mar 4: Five medical students sustained severe injuries when the car in which they were travelling rammed into an electric pole at Deralakatte on the outskirts of the city on Friday night. Among the injured the condition of Mathew Varghese (21), a native of Kerala, is said to be extremely critical. The other four occupants of the car—identified as George Rohan, Kaushik Thomas, Shamshad

Mangaluru, Mar 4: It was an incident needing prompt response. A train coach was derailed at Goods Shed, Hoige Bazar in the city and a few passengers were stuck inside, crying for help. A rescue team from the Accident Relief Train (ART) was pressed into service immediately and passengers were evacuated and relief arranged for those amongst them who were injured. This entire rescue and relief

New Delhi, Mar 4: The External Affairs Ministry late tonight said only one Indian nurse was killed and not four in a terrorist attack in strife-torn Yemen's Aden city. Earlier, External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj tweeted that four Indian nurses were killed in the attack today as she asked all Indians living in "danger zones" to return home. She also said the nurses stayed back in Yemen

New Delhi, Mar 4: Former Lok Sabha Speaker Purno Agitok Sangma died of a heart attack here on Friday. He was 68. Parliament sources said the end came this morning after he suffered a heart attack. Lok Sabha Speaker Sumitra Mahajan announced the news of his death in the House, which was adjourned for the day. While expressing deep grief over Sangma's passing away, Ms. Mahajan said he knew how to

Riyadh, Mar 4: A Saudi passenger aircraft captain died minutes before landing a plane in the Gulf Kingdom forcing his co-pilot to take over. The pilot, Walid bin Mohammed Al Mohammed, was trying to land his plane at King Khalid International Airport in Riyadh when he suffered a massive heart attack. Realising that something was wrong, his co-pilot, Rami Ben Ghazi was forced to take over control

Mumbai, Mar 4: As many as 127 passengers onboard a Jet Airways plane from New Delhi had a close shave on Thursday night after its main landing gear collapsed when it landed here. All the passengers deplaned safely, Jet Airways said in a statement. The incident resulted in the blocking of the main runway, forcing Mumbai authorities to shift flight operations to the secondary runway, sources said

Bengaluru, Mar 4: The State Cabinet, after an extensive discussion on Thursday, decided to table the Karnataka State Minorities Commission report on Wakf properties headed by Anwar Manippady, in the Legislative Council. The report was submitted to the then BJP?government in March, 2012. The report had found that politicians from the minority community, belonging to all major parties, had usurped

New Delhi, Mar 4: Jawaharlal Nehru University Students' Union President Kanhaiya Kumar in his blistering speech on Thursday night convinced Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his party that what the students wanted was “freedom in India, not freedom from India.” Addressing a huge gathering of students on the campus, soon after release from Tihar Jail, Mr. Kumar said: “It is not azadi from India, it

New Delhi, Mar 4: The magisterial probe instituted by the Delhi government into the February 9 event in JNU has found that no Pakistan zindabad' slogans were raised. This is contrary to the only FIR registered in the case, which said that pro-Pakistan slogans were raised. The report, prepared by New Delhi District Magistrate Sanjay Kumar, also found that even the police had “doubts” if such

Bengaluru, Mar 4: The State Cabinet on Thursday cleared a final notification to ban the manufacture and use of various kinds of plastic items including carry bags, banners, buntings, flags, flexes, plates, thermocol cups, spreading sheets, among others, irrespective of their thickness. The ban will come into effect once the notification is gazetted. The Cabinet, however, has not fixed a timeframe