Karnataka

Bantwal, Sep 28: A youth riding on a motorcycle died in a ghastly road accident that occurred at Mani in Bantwal taluk on Sunday morning. The deceased has been identified as Harish Poojary (28), son of Babu Poojary, who is a resident of Kabaka Kambalabettu in the taluk. The accident occurred when Harish, who managed a furniture store at Alira village near Mani, was riding towards Mani on Sunday

Dubai, Sep 28: Around 2000 Nonresident Indians, most of them from Karnataka, took part in the Humanistic Conference organized by Karnataka Cultural Foundation (KCF) in United Arab Emirates. Karnataka Health and Family Welfare Minister U T Khader formally inaugurated the event at Indian Academy School, Dubai. Addressing the gathering, Mr Khader said that state government is committed to safeguard

Mangalore, Sep 28: The Dr TMA Pai International Convention Centre reverberated with the simultaneous 'lab dab' beats, emulating the heartbeat, on Sunday as Kasturba Medical College (KMC) Hospital, Mangalore celebrated World Heart Day for the tenth consecutive year. With this KMC Hospitals got into the Asia Book of Records (ABR) with simultaneous human heartbeat for five minutes continuously, as a

Dubai, Sep 28: In a prestigious ceremony held at Taj Palace Hotel in Dubai, Gulf Medical University bagged awards in seven distinctive categories at the recently concluded Asian Education Leadership Awards, held under the broad banner of the Asian Leadership Awards (ALA). It was almost a clean sweep in the medical and healthcare education categories, as GMU won awards for Award for Best

New Delhi, Sep 28: A Delhi court today fixed February 28 next year for hearing a criminal defamation complaint filed by Congress leader Sanjay Nirupam against Union Human Resource Development (HRD) Minister Smriti Irani. Metropolitan Magistrate Dheeraj Mittal, who had earlier summoned Irani as an accused asking her to appear today, was on leave and the matter was posted for the next date. Nirupam

Mangalore, Sep 28: Land Trades Builders & Developers is proudto announce the BhoomiPooja, Launching and Foundation Laying ceremony of its new project'Solitaire'. The formal function will take place at 12:05 Noon at the project site situated at Hat Hill, Mangalore on Monday, 29th September 2014 at the project site. Sri B. RamanathRai, Minister for Forests, Environment & Ecology, Government of

Jeddah, Sep 28: A prominent Indian Muslim leader has called upon pilgrims who have come for Haj this year to pray for global peace and stability during the annual event, the largest gathering witnessed by humanity. œWe have to pray to God, the creator of universe, to solve problems facing people all over the world to help them live in peace and stability. This should be our main prayer during this

Bangalore, Sep 28: Energy Minister D?K?Shivakumar, on Saturday, said companies who had failed to bag the tender for power plant machinery were instigators of protests by alleged farmers in Kudgi. Addressing the farmers, supposedly agitating against the Kudgi Power Plant in Bijapur, he said it has come to his notice that companies which failed to win the tenders for the project have been

Mangalore, Sep 28: Chief Minister Siddaramaiah said here that women priests would be appointed at select endowment temples on a trial basis with an intention of ending gender inequality in temples. He was responding to the request made by former union minister B Janardhan Poojary to appoint women priests in endowment temples, after inaugurating Mangalore Dasara at Kudroli Gokarnanatheshwara temple

Mangalore, Sep 28: Mangalore South MLA J R Lobo said that greater importance should be given to the development of in-roads in Mangalore City Corporation limits, as citizens faced a lot of inconvenience due to undeveloped and muddy roads in the outer parts of the city. He was speaking after laying the foundation for the concretisation of the connecting road to Preethinagar near Shaktinagar here on