Karnataka

New Delhi, Aug 20: 28 passenger today suffered injuries when an IndiGo plane with over 150 passengers on board developed a problem in its landing gear that caused thick smoke to emanate after touching down at the airport here, prompting emergency evacuation. As the Airbus A-320 aircraft operating flight 6E-176 from Mumbai and carrying 148 passengers and six crew members landed at the IGI Airport

Bangalore, Aug 20: Political tenacity of Chief Minister Siddaramaiah and BJP national Vice-President B S Yeddyurappa will be on test in tomorrow's by-elections to three Assembly seats in Karnataka in the first electoral showdown after the Lok Sabha polls. Siddaramaiah is under more pressure to show results as Congress had failed to replicate the 2013 Assembly poll success in Lok Sabha elections

Mangalore, Aug 20: In one of its largest seizures, the Directorate of Revenue Intelligence has confiscated red sanders worth crores of rupees at New Mangalore Port on Wednesday. Officials said the seizures were made from container that had 14 tonnes of red sanders which were cleared for export as soaps and detergents by Bercha Exim Pvt Ltd, a Bangalore-based firm. It was loaded into 'Tiger Mango'

Dubai, Aug 20: About 195 passengers and crew members of an Air India Express flight from Thiruvananthapuram to Dubai had to endure an emergency landing immediately after take-off. Air India Express flight IX 539 was already delayed by two hours due to technical faults, before it took-off only to detect engine problems again. According to reports, the AI Express flight, which was scheduled to take

Mangalore, Aug 20: A few days after a delegation led by Mangalore South MLA J R Lobo and minister Roshan Baig met Union minister of state for civil aviation G M Siddeshwar, urging the resumption of direct flight services from Mangalore to Kuwait, it is said that Air India had come forward to resume the flight service from October. While sources said that the official announcement regarding the

Puttur, Aug 20: A 12-year old boy hailing from Mandya inadvertently landed at Narimogaru railway station in Puttur taluk in his search of his parents. Ajay from Anoor village in Maddur taluk in Mandya district, had arrived at Dharmasthala on a pilgrimage with his parents on Monday. On Tuesday, he reportedly left Dharmasthala with his parents and reached Kabaka railway station near Puttur. Having

Bangalore, Aug 20: After getting certified as a polio-free country, India is now preparing to introduce inactivated polio vaccine (IPV) in routine immunisation, said Poonam Khetrapal Singh, World Health Organisation (WHO) regional director for South-East Asia. Speaking at a regional consultation meet on polio and immunisation held in Bangalore on Tuesday, Ms. Singh said the member-States of WHO

New Delhi, Aug 20: As part of grand preparations for its centenary in 2025, the RSS is working on writing a version of Indian history based on the Puranas. The 10-year project has been dubbed Puranantargat Itihaas'. The Sangh is also planning to put together the history of each one of the over 670 districts in the country, as well as the history of the over 600 tribal communities in India. An

Riyadh, Aug 20: Saudi employers, whose foreign workers want to transfer their sponsorship, will be given an opportunity to lodge their objections within five days from their date of application, a senior official from the Ministry of Labor has announced. Labor Ministry spokesman Tayseer Al-Mufarrej said that the new arrangement was aimed at protecting the interests of both sponsors and workers

Jeddah, Aug 20: Saudi Grand Mufti Sheikh Abdul Aziz Al-Asheikh says that extremism and the ideologies of groups like the Islamic State and Al-Qaeda are Islam's No. 1 enemy and that Muslims have been their first victims. He also said in his public statement that terrorism has no place in Islam. “The ideas of extremism, radicalism and terrorism... have nothing to do with Islam and (their proponents)