Karnataka

Mangaluru, Feb 5: Students from Karnataka swept the first three ranks for medical seats in the first ever online Postgraduate Entrance Test (PGET) conducted by the Consortium of Medical, Engineering and Dental Colleges of Karnataka Postgraduate Entrance Test (COMEDK), the results of which were announced on Thursday. Rachel Althea Sequeira from Mangaluru, who topped the medical stream, said she was

Mangaluru, Feb 4: Officers of Customs at Mangalore International Airport detected several cases of smuggling of contraband and seized 1.16-kgs of gold, foreign currency equivalent to Rs 3.47 lakh and 129 cartons of foreign cigarettes, all in January. In the first case detected by officers of air intelligence unit, which was formed last month, five numbers of 10 tola gold bars, weighing 583.250

Mangaluru, Feb 4: After the two missing girl students of city based St Aloysius College on Thursday contacted one of their relatives over phone to inform their whereabouts, a fresh case of police brutality has come to light. After realizing that both Jaqueline and Smrithi had left their homes on their own will, the city police on Thursday released a 17-year-old male Muslim student, after torturing

Hyderabad, Feb 4: In a video that has surfaced on social media, All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (MIM) MLA Akbaruddin Owaisi has said that his party and Prime Minister Narendra Modi together will wipe out Congress from the country. At an AIMIM public meeting at Baba Nagar on January 30 for the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC) elections, Akbaruddin Owaisi made the remark. In the

It appears Facebook-owned WhatsApp has silently pushed a server-side update to its app on Android that increases the number of users included in a group chat. Until now, a WhatsApp group chat could include up to 100 users. However, the update now pushes the limit to 256 users. iOS users have also received an update that brings the same functionality, with version 2.12.13 of the app. For Android

Dubai, Feb 4: Mr. Thumbay Moideen, the Founder President of the UAE-based Thumbay Group has been featured on the cover of ‘Forbes Middle East’, one of the top finance and business magazines in the Middle East region. The cover story, titled “Healthy Choice” traces Mr. Thumbay Moideen’s business journey in the UAE starting from setting up the Gulf Medical University (GMU) in Ajman, to emerging as a

Mangaluru, Feb 4: The ‘Spirit of India’ run by former Australian Minister and ultra-long distance runner Patrick Farmer which started from the southernmost tip of the country—Kanyakumari to Srinagar— covering a distance of 4,600 -km entered Karnataka on Thursday. The marathon runner was given a warm welcome by the district administration with the Deputy Commissioner A B Ibrahim and SP Dr S D

Bengaluru, Feb 4: Five persons have been arrested for the alleged assault and stripping of a Tanzanian woman here with the Karnataka government today saying it viewed the incident "seriously" but rejected suggestions that it was a racial attack. As the incident on Sunday night took a serious diplomatic turn, Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah said five men had been arrested and that Minister

Mangaluru, Feb 4: The two teenage girl students of a Mangaluru based private college, who went missing under mysterious circumstances on February 1, were tracked down in Shoranur of Palakkad district in Kerala on Thursday. The photos of Smrithi and Jacqueline, both aged around 17 years and pursuing pre university course together, had gone viral on social media after their disappearance. Both are

Mangaluru, Feb 4: In the wake of Hindu Jagarana Vedike’s protest demanding stringent action against those belonging to a particular community after a recent communal clash in Suarthkal, the police have booked cases against 23 Muslim youths from the locality. A day after Monday night’s clash in Surathkal’s Janata Colony, that left at least six people injured, the police had nabbed five persons