Karnataka

Dubai, Jul 2: Moved by their plight, an Indian businessman in the UAE has helped nearly 3,700 prisoners from several nations who had served their sentences but remained in jails in the country for lack of money, by paying off their debts and buying them air tickets for home. Firoz G Merchant, owner of a jewellery company, has already secured the release of about 3,700 prisoners since 2011

Bhubaneswar, Jul 2: About 24 schoolchildren were injured, five of them critically, when a handmade crude bomb exploded in a classroom of a government-run high school in the coastal Odisha city of Cuttack on Monday. All the injured students have been admitted to hospital. The local police have begun investigations. “The bomb exploded when 58 class IX students were sitting inside their room and the

Riyadh, Jul 2: Those expatriates whose documents have been accepted but could not be completed by Wednesday, the last day of the grace period, because of the paucity of time will be covered under the amnesty even after the deadline, an official source has clarified. The source stressed that all files have to be complete and all conditions fulfilled. Undocumented expat workers are in a race against

Mangalore, Jul 2: Come Sunday, the central market swells by leaps and bounds and the market stretches itself into all the nearby lanes and roads. Street vendors come in large numbers and occupy places in central talkies road, maidan road and the main road near Town Hall to the extent that walking and driving practically becomes impossible. Though operations to evacuate these vendors were made in

Mangalore, Jul 2: With instances of some miscreants misusing the Uttarakhand calamity to eke out money from public, Dakshina Kannada district Deputy Commissioner N Prakash has urged all the public and service organization to be careful while making donations. In a release, the DC has said that the ones wishing to make donations for Uttarakhand relief should issue cheques and should not donate in

Mangalore, Jul 1: A legal literacy chariot and mobile Lok Adalat (People's court) was inaugurated and flagged off by principal district and sessions judge Arun Chowdapurkar in the district court premises here on Monday. The mobile court was inaugurated as part of legal awareness campaign organised by Dakshina Kannada District Legal Services Authority, Mangalore, in association with DK district

Mangalore, Jul 1: A three-day exhibition of cartoons and caricatures by 29 cartoonists from the coastal region was inaugurated in the premises of Press Club in Urwa on Monday on the occasion of Press Day. Senior cartoonist Harishchandra Shetty popularly known as Harini inaugurated the exhibition by sketching a caricature of the chief guest U B Rajalakshmi, who is the executive editor of Kannada

Mangalore, Jul 1: Television journalism will undergo a great change and mature significantly in the next 10 years, said associate news editor of Vijaya Karnataka, Bangalore, Lokesh Kayarga. Speaking on 'Changing trends in media' on the occasion of Press Day programme organised by Dakshina Kannada Working Journalists' Union at Press Club here on Monday, he said that Kannada news channels gave more

Mangalore, Jul 1: With effect from July 15, Jet Airways, India's premier international airline, will operate premiere (business class) services on the Dubai-Mangalore sector. The airline will deploy a Boeing 737-800 aircraft, with 162 economy seats, offering twin class configuration of 8 premiere, stated a press release. The first new flight will take off from Mangalore on July 15 and the

Jeddah, Jul 1: Thousands of illegal workers from various countries are living in a state of confusion and uncertainty with just two days to go for the amnesty period to come to an end. The distressed workers are desperately running from pillar to post to leave the country but to no avail. The scenario is the same, be it in major cities like Jeddah or small towns like Al-Ahsa and Hail, with