Karnataka

Mangalore, Sep 10: Officials of customs at Mangalore International Airport (MIA) on Wednesday busted yet another gold smuggling racket. Gold weighing 1393.200 grams in separate cases valued at Rs 38.31 lakh was seized. The modus operandi employed this time involved concealing gold in the form of foils in cardboards containing toys and stickers affixed to them and around the walls of potato wafer

Mangalore, Sep 10: Karnataka NRI Forum, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, has urged the Karnataka government to allow children of NRIs from states to take the common entrance test (CET) for admission to undergraduate professional courses in the State on the lines of people of Karnataka from outside the State. A memorandum was recently submitted by Karnataka NRI Forum president Roshan Philip Rodrigues through

Indore, Sep 10: Amid a raging debate over 'love jihad', a Madhya Pradesh BJP MLA has asked organisers of forthcoming Navratri festival to disallow entry of non-Hindu youths in pandals where 'garba' or devotional dance is performed in the praise of goddess Durga. Madhya Pradesh BJP vice president and MLA from Indore (3) seat, Usha Thakur told reporters today that organisers of 'garba' should only

Belthangady, Sep 10: A tumour weighing 3.5 kgs was successfully removed from the stomach of a 42-year-old woman through surgery at Shri Dharmasthala Manjunatheshwara (SDM) Hospital in Ujire. Susheela had been suffering from severe stomach ache and unable to bear the pain, she got a check-up and scanning done at SDM Hospital. It is discovered that a malignant tumour weighing 3.5 kgs had grown in

Mangalore, Sept 10: Universities should provide higher education to nurture human capital as an agent of growth of social good for a knowledge society said Prof. Kasturi L Chopra, former director, Indian Institute of Technology, Khargpur. He was delivering 34th Foundation Day lecture on the topic Nurturing innovation and entrepreneurship in academic institutions' on September 10 at Mangala

New Delhi, Sep 10: The Supreme Court on Wednesday asked the Kerala government not to shut down bars in the state until it hears a clutch of petitions challenging the ban order. The apex court bench headed by Chief Justice Anil R Dave asked the state government to wait as it would hear the matter on Thursday when it was mentioned by a battery of senior lawyers representing bar owners. As many as

Mangalore, Sep 10: The 20th Urs celebration of the historically famous Dargah Shariff of Hazrat Seyyid Mohammed Shareeful Madani will be held for 25 days from April 2 to April 26, said president of the Dargah U S Hamza. Announcing this at a press conference here, he said that the historically famous Urs fair was held once every five years at the Dargah Shariff at Ullal. Devotees from all over the

Mangalore, Sep 10: Eight persons from Mangalore who had been to Jammu & Kashmir on a trip are stranded in flood-hit region of the state, and other family members report that there has been no communication from them since September 6. Among the stranded eight persons, seven belong to the same family. Unable to make contact with them or receive information of their whereabouts, family members back

Aligarh, Sep 10: Even as the communal outfits have launched a nationwide propaganda to divide nation on communal lines with the help of 'love jihad' hoax, a bunch of young Muslim men belonging to a socio-religious organisation have decided to bridge the gap between communities. Thousands of members of youth wing of the Jamaat-e-Islami-Hind (JIH), and its students wing the Student Islamic

Bidar, Sep 10: Karnataka State Waqf Board chairman Mohammad Yusuf has warned stringent action against the encroachers of Waqf properties. Responding to the queries of media persons here Mr Yusuf said that the board had been filing cases against encroachers in all districts. “In some districts, we have filed criminal cases against officials of some government agencies like city municipal councils”