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Mysuru, Mar 9: Swamy Sureshanandaji, senior monk and former Chairman of Sri Ramakrishna Ashrama and Ramakrishna Vidyashala here passed away on Friday night in the city. He was 90. He was ordained as a monk in 1960. From 1972 to 1989 he was the correspondent and the Chairman of the Ashrama from 1989 to 1997. Swamy Sureshanandaji has also worked in Chandigarh, Bengaluru and Nattarampalli (Tamil Nadu...

Mumbai, Mar 7: India's "ultra-high net worth individuals" (UHNWI) -- with assets worth $30 million and more -- prefer investing in equities and bonds rather than real estate and gold, a Knight Frank report said on Wednesday. According to the data provided by The Wealth Report 2019, around 30 per cent of investments by Indian UHNWIs went to equities and 28 per cent to bonds, followed by 24 per cent...

New Delhi, Mar 7: Joining the race to grab the attention of young children, Google on Wednesday launched the beta version of its "Bolo" app to help primary grade children improve Hindi and English reading skills, while ensuring that the app do not send out data on children. "Nothing is ever sent to Google through the app," Nitin Kashyap, Product Manager, Google India, told IANS, adding the app is...

Bengaluru, Mar 7: Indian Institute of Management Bangalore (IIMB) has signed two Memorandums of Understanding (MoU) with the Karnataka Government Commercial Taxes Department (CTD), on Wednesday to make tax administration more data driven and professional. The first MoU is aimed at capacity building programmes for the CTD officers for three years in IIMB and the second is a collaborative MoU for...

New Delhi, Mar 6: Tech giant Google Wednesday unveiled a new app 'Bolo' that aims to help children in primary school learn to read in Hindi and English. The free app, which is being launched in India first, uses Google's speech recognition and text-to-speech technology. The app features an animated character 'Diya', who encourages children to read stories aloud and helps if the child is unable to...

Mysuru, Mar 2: Actress Sumalatha, wife of former Karnataka and Union Minister late M H Ambareesh, who has decided to enter politics today said that no one from Janata Dal (Secular) had met him nor discussed about Lok Sabha election with her so far. Speaking to newsmen on Saturday after visiting Suttur Mutt and seeking blessings of Seer Shivaratri Deshikendra Swamiji. She said “Our family was known...

Mysuru, Mar 1: A 49-year-old farmer ended his life in Uyigowdanahalli, Hunsur talukcommitted suicide by hanging on Tuesday. Inability to settle his debts, which amounted to nearly Rs 2 lakh, has been cited as the reason for pushing Jayaramegowda to take the extreme step. The victim’s wife Poornima said that her husband was engaged in the cultivation of banana, cotton and tobacco in Kudineer...

New Delhi, Feb 28: In a bid to promote digital transactions, the Indian Rail Catering and Tourism Corporation (IRCTC) on Thursday launched its much awaited payment aggregator system 'IRCTC iPay'. The exclusive digital payment gateway will provide better digital experience and improved online digital payment convenience to rail passengers availing online travel-related services through the website...

Kannur, Feb 28: Three persons suffered minor injuries in a powerful crude bomb explosion near Thalassery town on Thursday morning. According to police, the explosion occurred while three youths K Praveen (33), P K Rafeek (34) and Shakeer (36) engaged in cleaning the ground in front of BJP Thalassery mandalam committee office. A crude bomb kept inside a plastic pipe was exploded, police said.

Despite the significant achievements of medical science today, there is no factory established that can manufacture blood. It is only in human beings where blood is produced and circulated. Jamiyattul Falah (Unity for Success), a state government award winning charity organization’s Mangaluru Taluk unit organized Blood Donation camp with the support of Blood Helpline Karnataka (R) and SDPI Ullal...