Karnataka

Mangalore, Dec 6: A 42-year-old man from Bantwal taluk died in United Arab Emirates recently due to cardiac arrest. The deceased is Abdul Hameed, son of K Abbas. He hailed from Agalthabettu Naringana in Bantwal taluk Bantwal. He was working as a catering manager at the international airport, Ras-Al-Khaimah over the last 10 years. He had been to his native place during Ed-Ul-Fitr and returned to

Mangalore, Dec 6: If sources are to be believed, there are all possibilities of notorious inmates and trouble makers of Mangalore jail finding themselves in a different location. On Wednesday, two under trials reportedly identifying themselves with underworld dons Madoor Isbu and Rasheed Malabari had resorted to fighting it out in the jail premises along with their gangs on Wednesday, during the

Mangalore, Dec 6: The Customs officials at Mangalore Airport on Thursday seized 504.90 gm of gold mixed with coffee powder. The gold, in the form of powder, was mixed with instant coffee powder and packed in jars, Customs officials said. The gold powder was filled in the coffee tins by removing the wrapper and then by making a small incision on the side of the tin. Gold was then added to the

Mysore, Dec 6: The search for the tiger that killed three men in a week ended with its capture on Thursday. The government had ordered it shot at sight, but forest officials managed to catch it alive. The animal, which had pounced on three villagers and killed them, had spread terror in villages adjoining the reserve forests of Bandipur and HD Kote. The Forest Department caught the tiger at 12.15

Johannesburg, Dec 6: Nelson Mandela, South Africa's first elected black president and a global anti-apartheid icon died early today, at his home in the suburb of Houghton here, following a lengthy illness. He was 95. The elder statesman was receiving medical care from a leading team since September after spending three months in a Pretoria hospital for a recurrent lung ailment. "Fellow South

Mangalore, Dec 5: Members of the Karnataka State Akshara Dasoha Employees' Association and Communist Party of India (Marxist) staged a stir demanding regularization of services and wage hike, in front of Zilla Panchayat office in Mangalore, on Thursday. Balakishna Shetty, president of CITU addressing the protesters said that the Akshara Dasoha employees have been working for 13 years without

Mangalore, Dec 5: With the aim of making Masjids perform more social duties and to ensure that the Masjids do not confine themselves to being mere places of worship,'Masjid Ehsaan', newly built under Highland Educational and Cultural Centre at Vas Lane, Falnir, organized a first of its kind blood donation camp in its premises. Though Masjid committees have held such programmes earlier, it is for

Bangalore, Dec 5: The Karnataka government plans to establish a 'Nano Park' here, which will have nano incubation centre, Chief Minister Siddaramaiah said today. "Our government proposes to establish a state-of-the-art Nano Park in Bangalore, which will have nano incubation centre along with necessary physical infrastructure and support system including common facilities," Siddaramaih said at the

New Delhi, Dec 5: The Supreme Court Thursday urged the state governments to make necessary amendments to their laws to make production and marketing of adulterated milk, which is injurious to human consumption, an offence punishable with life imprisonment. The observation by an apex court bench of Justice K.S. Radhakrishnan and Justice A.K. Sikri came after taking note of Uttar Pradesh, West

Washington, Dec 5: A US-based think-tank has claimed that India is expanding its ability to produce highly enriched uranium for military purposes, including more powerful nuclear weapons, citing satellite imagery of an under construction gas centrifuge facility near Mysore. In their latest report, David Albright and Serena Kelleher-Vergantini of the Institute for Science and International Security