Karnataka

Bangalore, Aug 5: The State government has cleared one more set of medical bill of Housing Minister M?H Ambareesh. The government has reimbursed Rs 5,92,592 which the minister had spent towards medical treatment he took while he was in a private hospital in Bangalore in February this year. According to a government notification issued on July 17 by the department of personnel & administration

Mangalore, Aug 5: The students of St Agnes PU College organised a variety show to celebrate French Day. The programmee started with a tuneful French prayer song sung by French students. After the welcome speech, the audience was treated to a humorous presentation of France and its culture. It was followed by a hip hop dance choreographed entirely by the French students themselves kept the audience

Kochi, Aug 5: In the first batch of evacuation of Indian nurses from strife-torn Libya, 44 Keralite nurses arrived here this morning from Dubai. The nurses were brought by bus from Tunisia to Dubai where they boarded a scheduled Emirates flight to Kochi at 3.30 AM, airport officials here said. The nurses were working in various hospitals in Libya. The 44 were among 58 nurses who had reached

Bangalore, Aug 5: Four-year-old Akshata's death after falling into a borewell in Nagthana taluk of Bijapur district on June 17 pushed the state government to come out with stringent guidelines for drilling borewells and their closure. However, more than a month later, 3,400 borewells still lie open across the state, according to the rural development and panchayat raj (RDPR) department. However

Jeddah, Aug 5: Good news for expatriates in the Kingdom. Expats can now renew visit visas for relatives using the Passport Department's Abshir system. Maj. Gen. Sulaiman Al-Yahya, the department's director-general, will launch the new service next Monday, said Col. Mohammed Al-Saad, director of public relations. He said the department would also launch another Abshir program to help Saudis renew

Kasargod, Aug 5: A rift over the syllabus being taught at a madrasa resulted in clashes between two Sunni factions, leaving 15 persons injured at the Ujjampadi locality under the Adur police station limits on Monday. Among the injured are Samasta Kerala Sunni Students Federation (SKSSF) district treasurer Hashim Darimi and a madrasa teacher owing allegiance to the E K faction. The police said the

Belthangady, Aug 5: Unidentified miscreants broke into the houses of two NRI brothers and decamped with cash and gold ornaments. The house belonged to Nazeer N S located on Ujire college road at M M Residency. Nazeer had come from Saudi Arabia on vacation. He had locked his house on Saturday and gone to a relative's house at Sakleshpur. However, on his return around 7 a.m. on Monday, he found the

Mangalore, Aug 5: The district units of Vishwa Hindu Parishad and Bajrang Dal held a protest in front of the deputy commissioner's office here on Monday, demanding immediate withdrawal of compensation to Kabeer family. Lashing their ire against the state government, the protestors demanded that the government withdraw the compensation of Rs 10 lakhs handed to the family of Kabeer, who was killed

Lucknow, Aug 4: Tension mounted again in the communally sensitive town of Meerut, about 500 km from here, after news broke out that a girl was gang-raped and forced to convert while she was held hostage at a madarsa for several days. Hundreds of people took to the streets and laid siege to a police station and pelted stones at the homes of members of a particular community, triggering tension in

Bangalore, Aug 4: Habitual cyber offenders will be booked under the amended Goonda Act, which was passed by the state legislature last week, Home Minister K J George said today. In a recent case, police have said they were considering invoking the amended Goonda Act against a right-wing activist who had launched verbal attacks on women and posted alleged inflammatory remarks against a minority