Karnataka

Mangalore, Jan 20: Social and political activists, doctors, professionals and a few NRIs from the district have come together to evolve strategies and action plan to improve the primary health care in the district through by facilitating active involvement of the community. In a consultation meeting held under the banner of an NGO, WHEEL (World Health and Education Enrichment Links) at Campus

Mangaluru, Jan 20: The new air traffic control (ATC) tower at Mangaluru International Airport has been operationalized and commissioned on Monday. The air-conditioned tower has two elevators (lifts), a generator, weather radar and all other communication facilities. Airport director J T Radhakrishna said that the Airports Authority of India (AAI) began round the clock operations at its new ATC

New Delhi, Jan 20: Bollywood film producer Pahlaj Nihalani, also brother-in-law of Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader and former Union minister Shatrughan Sinha, is the new chairperson of the Central Board of Film Certification (CBFC). The government appointed him within a week after Leela Samson resigned from the post accusing the government, politicians and religious groups of “coercing” the

Kasaragod, Jan 20: Plastic and electronic goods worth lakhs of rupees were gutted in a fire that broke out in a scrap warehouse at Choori near here on Monday. Fire and Rescue Services personnel had to work for over four hours to put out the fire, suspected to have been cased by sparks from an overhead power line around 1.15 p.m. Thick smoke enveloped the locality making it difficult to contain the

Mangaluru, Jan 19: Dakshina Kannada district in-charge minister B Ramanath Rai called on citizens to maintain peace and communal harmony in the district, without paying attention to rumours attempting to spark tension among communities. Addressing a press conference here on Monday, he stressed that programmes or conventions should not be held with communalism as their agenda since the district was

Mangaluru, Jan 19: The district unit of Popular Front of India (PFI) has urged for a detailed probe into the communal unrest and rioting that occurred in few sensitive areas in Puttur and Belthangady taluks in the wake of Virat Hindu Hrudaya Sangama organised by Vishwa Hindu Parishad on Friday, alleging that the rioting incidents had been pre-planned. Addressing a press conference here on Monday

Bengaluru, Jan 19: JD(S) leader and former chief minister H D Kumaraswamy today sought a CBI inquiry into Arkavathi Layout land de-notification, an issue on which the Opposition has targeted Chief Minister Siddaramaiah alleging irregularities. "Finding out the quantum of financial loss because of this is not possible by the commission, CBI has to investigate... today big cases have come out

Bengaluru, Jan 19: In a shocking incident on Monday, a woman committed suicide by setting herself ablaze during the customary morning pooja at Swami Sivananda Mutt in Koppla district in Karnataka. The victim has been identified as Padmavathi a disciple in the mutt. She also injured the main seer of the mutt, Swami Sivananda Sri, as she fell on him, while she was on fire. The seer, who suffered 80

Jeddah, Jan 19: The Health Ministry has instructed all public hospitals and health facilities not to allow celebration of “religious or personal” birthdays inside their compounds. The ministry’s religious awareness department said Sunday that the circular was based on a religious edict issued by the Dar Al-Ifta 27 years ago. Dar Al-Ifta had given the verdict in 1409H after it came to know that a

Muzaffarpur/Patna, Jan 19: At least 14 persons have been arrested in connection with yesterday's violence in a village here in which three persons were charred to death when a mob torched nine houses following recovery of body of an abducted youth. Bihar Chief Minister Jitan Ram Manjhi, who was in Mumbai, has cut short his visit, in view of the Muzaffarpur incident, and security has been tightened