Karnataka

Mysore Oct 6: Colourful Dasara celebrations marking the start of Navaratri began on Saturday in Mysore, with a series of events lined up for the next ten days promising to keep both young and old in festive fervour. Jnanpith awardee Chandrashekar Kambar launched the festivities by offering floral tributes to Goddess Chamundeshwari at Chamundi Hill amid fanfare. Apart from the government-sponsored

Bangalore, Oct 6: In the race to appease the minorities in the run-up to the Lok Sabha elections next year, KPCC president G Parameshwara on Saturday suggested it's all right for them to cheat by not repaying loans taken from government agencies. Speaking at a workshop here organized by the party on the schemes available to minorities, Parameshwara maintained that several people who had taken loan

Bangalore, Oct 5: India's sagging economy would recover from stress in the second half of this fiscal to return to high growth over the next two years, Finance Minister P. Chidambaram said Saturday. "The country's economy will recover from stress this fiscal (2013-14) as it has enough the capacity to get over it to post higher growth than last fiscal (2012-13)," Chidambaram said on the margins of

Bangalore, Oct 5: Petroleum and Natural Gas Minister M. Veerappa Moily Saturday launched the sale of five-kg cooking gas cylinder here at the non-subsidised rate of Rs.492 per cylinder, including taxes. Unveiling the free trade LPG (cooking gas) scheme at a retail outlet of the state-run Bharat Petroleum oil marketing firm in the city's southern suburb, Moily said the new offer was revolutionary

Mangalore, Oct 5: Sleuths of Directorate of Revenue Intelligence (DRI) on Saturday arrested eight persons and seized several cartons of cigarettes being smuggled into the country through Mangalore International Airport. Officials said that the confiscated cigarettes were worth Rs 1 lakh. All the eight accused, who came onboard an Air India Express flight from Dubai, hail from nearby Kasargod

Mangalore, Oct 5: The idols of Navadurgas and Ganesha were installed at the Kudroli Sri Gokarnatheshwara Temple in Mangalore Saturday, thereby giving a start to the resplendent Navarathri celebration. Devotees thronged the temple to get a glimpse of idols of goddess Sri Sharada, Navadurge and Lord Ganesha even though it was raining heavily. The rituals started with a inside Kudroli Sri

Mangalore, Oct 5: A comprehensively configured 3D Cone-Beam Computed Tomography (CBCT) machine, which will benefit diagnosis and treatment planning in oral and maxillofacial radiology, with latest software applications will be inaugurated at Manipal College of Dental Sciences (MCDS), Mangalore on Monday. Announcing this at a press conference here on Saturday, Dean of MCDS Dr Dilip G Naik said that

Thiruvananthapuram, Oct 5: With her two-month-long dharna outside the state secretariat agianst sand mafia failing to yield results, 31-year-old mother of three minor children Jazeera has now shifted her struggle to the national capital. Jazeera and her children, who also sat with her in the sit-in, left for New Delhi from here by train yesterday to continue her struggle before parliament. While

Pune, Oct 5: A Sharia Court conducted solely by women with an aim to redress grievances of Muslim women has started functioning in Pune. Set up by Bharatiya Muslim Mahila Andolan (BMMA), the first all-women Sharia Court here will deal with various family issues, including marital discord, divorce as well as property-related disputes. "We will be functioning to mete out justice to women in Muslim

Mangalore, Oct 5: The second edition of'Kannada Qur'an Arthanuvada' the translation of the Qur'an in Kannada published by Salafi Publishing House, Mangalore was released on Friday at Town Hall in the city. Daee Abdurrazak Jami of Hubli released the book by handing over the copy to Atheef Hussain Udupi, President of Da'va Centre. Later, Abdurrazak Jami delivered a talk on'Qur'an Ki Azmath', Zahid