Karnataka

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

Mangalore, Dec 5: With the hypothetical situation of a gas leakage, BASF organized a mock drill to demonstrate ways to tackle the situation effectively, at Ottekar in Bala region at the Mangalore Liquid Import Facility premises. In the drill, the situation was that 20 staff and workers were injured, local residents were to be evacuated and gruel centres had to be put up along with providing

Mangalore, Dec 5: Principal of Muloor Al-Ihsan College Zahida Jaleel has been chosen as the new president of Asare Women's Foundation, affiliated to Talent Research Foundation, Mangalore. Raziya A Mannan has been chosen as the vice-president, Aathika Rafeeq as general secretary, Ashraf Sulaiman as treasurer, Yasmeen as joint secretary and Naseema as press secretary of the women's organisation. An

Mangalore, Dec 5: Social Democratic Party of India (SDPI) State President Abdul Majeed Kodlipet has said that the bomb blasts in the country are done by the politicians for political gains and the blame is then put on the Muslims. He was addressing the gathering after inaugurating the campaign on'End political terrorism', held at Town Hall, Mangalore. He said that the NDA government executed the

Mangalore, Dec 5: Two under trials who had formed gangs of their own in the prison, reportedly got into fight in Mangalore Jail on Wednesday afternoon. It is said that Ilyas facing charges of kidnapping and Muhammad Azaruddin, facing charges of attempt to murder got into a fight with each other. However, the jail personnel intervened and dispersed both the gangs, before they could harm one another

Mangalore, Dec 5: Reiterating that he will continue to protest against inhuman practice of made snana-rolling over plantain leaves containing leftovers of the lunch served to Brahmins- Karnataka State Backward Classes Awareness Forum president K S Shivaram said that they have launched a series of protests calling for its ban. Addressing the media persons on Wednesday Mr Shivaram said that on