Karnataka

Bangalore, Sep 22: India's maiden Mars mission was on course to reach the Red Planet's orbit on Wednesday that could create history when the spacecraft's main engine was successfully fired today in the first test of its last crucial manoeuvre in search for evidence of life. The 440 Newton Liquid Apogee Motor (LAM) engine, idling for the last 300 days on the Mars Orbiter Mission(MOM) 'Mangalyaan'

Mangalore, Sep 22: Members of Dakshina Kannada Working Journalists Union (DKWJU) handed over a memorandum to the assistant deputy commissioner here on Monday, in protest against the alleged attack on journalists that took place in Bidar on Friday. Condemning the alleged attack, members of the union, led by union president P B Harish Rai, on Monday urged the government to take legal action against

Mangalore, Sep 22: Following the discovery of dead worms in the food served to passengers onboard an Air India Express flight from Mangalore to Bahrain last Friday, the AIE has served a notice to the caterers warning against such incidents in the future. After the matter of dead worms in the food served was brought to the notice of the cabin crew and senior staff, AIE station manager Nagesh Shetty

Bangalore, Sep 22: Former Karnataka chief minister and union minister Dr M Veerappa Moily has kicked up a row. Speaking at a function in Bangalore on Sunday, Moily said that the word 'Hindu' was basically invented by the Muslims in the medieval age. "The word Hindu was invented by the Muslims ¦ They called us Hindus. There is no mention of the word Hindu in our Vedas and Upanishads," said Dr Moily

Mangalore, Sep 22: Condemning the recent assaults on Muslim youth by communal outfits, the Muslim Central Committee, Dakshina Kannada and Udupi districts, has appealed to the people to maintain peace and harmony in the region ahead of religious festivals Dussehra and Eid-ul-Adha. Speaking at a press conference here on Monday, president of the committee KS Mohammed Masood said that a lot of

Mangalore, Sep 22: Dakshina Kannada needs Rs 1,000 crore to build check dams to store water, according to Minister for Health and Family Welfare U T Khader. Speaking after inaugurating the Public Health Centre at Vaddagere in Koratagere taluk on Sunday, he urged the State government to increase the cost of Yettinahole drinking water project to Rs. 13,000 crore and to allot the additional Rs. 1,000

Mangalore, Sep 22: KMC Hospital organized the World Heart Day Drawing Competition for the Tenth consecutive year on the theme œHeart Healthy Environment  for Class 4 to Class 10 students. Nearly 360 students and 30 in-patient children from across the city participated in this Drawing competition and made it a huge success. Attractive cash prizes will be distributed to the competition winners on

New Delhi, Sep 22: In its renewed impetus to woo Dalits, various other castes and sub-castes, the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) has embarked on an ambitious exercise to re-write history. Emboldened by the BJP's success in the Lok Sabha elections, the RSS has intensified its efforts to find and validate a common Hindu thread to unify all groups under one Hindu identity. Three top RSS leaders

Kasaragod, Sep 22: Timely detection of a breach developed in a railway track near Kotikulam railway station, near Kasaragod, averted a possible rail accident on Sunday. The breach on the track through which north-bound trains run was detected around 7 a.m. forcing authorities to halt the Cheruvathur-Mangalore passenger train for a while. The train was later allowed to pass with restricted speed

Bangalore, Sep 22: In a shocking incident an autorickshaw manhandled a young female techie, who had hired his vehicle in the night in Bangalore. However, Rini Biswas, the 25-year-old software engineer, who was roughed up by the driver, managed to fight back. Rini Biswas hired the auto on September 18 to return home at Maruthi Nagar in Madiwala. œIt was around 11 p.m. when the driver agreed to drop