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Mother Express in Bhopal

Children look at a poster of Mother Teresa in a special exhibition train at the Bhopal railway station yesterday. The Mother Express train was flagged off by Railway Minister Mamata Banerjee in Kolkata on August 26

Two boys met a watery grave in two separate incidents

Mulki : Two boys met a watery grave in two separate incidents reported from the Suzlon Rehabilitation Colony in Padubidri and in Mulki on November 13, Saturday. Amrith (12), a seventh standard student of Padubidri Board School and son of Krishna Poojari, a resident of the Suzlon rehabilitation colony who had been to swim

Please Pray for Martyrs, who Shed Blood for their Faith

We have received pictures of the recent horrifying slaughter which took place in Baghdad on October 31st. Two priests were killed as they celebrated holy MASS (ages 27 and 32 yrs old). One other priest was severely injured and is critical undergoing surgeries. The priests begged for their lives to be taken only so that the faithful would be spared but instead all were murdered, even the children who were present.

Adarsh housing scam: CBI likely to question Ashok Chavan

MUMBAI: The CBI is likely to question former Maharashtra chief minister Ashok Chavan in connection with his alleged role in the housing society scam here.

Talaq uttered by Muslim man on cellphone valid: Deoband

DEOBAND: Talaq uttered thrice by a Muslim man on a mobile phone will be considered valid even if his wife is unable to hear it all the three times due to network and other problems, a fresh fatwa has ruled. The fatwa was given by Darul-Ifta, the fatwa department of leading Sunni Islamic seminary Dar-ul-Uloom Deoband, in reply to a query by a man.

Mumbai-Delhi airfare soars to Rs 35,000

NEW DELHI: If you are planning to fly from Delhi to Mumbai at short notice, get ready to shell out more than you would for a return ticket to, say, Dubai or Bangkok. Passengers buying tickets on the date of travel or a day or two earlier on this sector in the past few days have seen one-way fares

Probe panel confirms pilot error caused M’lore crash

Pilot error caused the Air India Express plane crash at Mangalore airport which killed 158 people, an inquiry has found. The final report of the inquiry committee which probed the incident says that the flight commander of the ill-fated Air Indian Express, which crashed on May 22,2010,

S.Africa’s Indian community celebrates 150 years

DURBAN, South Africa — South Africa’s Indian community celebrated its 150th anniversary Tuesday with prayer ceremonies on the spot where the first indentured servants from India came ashore in 1860. In one ceremony, about 40 men in white shirts and women in colourful saris set out in a boat from the eastern port city of Durban, throwing coconuts, bananas, oranges, apples

Rolls-Royce planning to swap engines

ROLLS-ROYCE is planning a new-for-old engine swap scheme as pressure mounts for a quick fix to the Airbus A380 engine crisis. The company has asked Airbus to return new engines from the aircraft assembly line in Toulouse, France so they can be forwarded to airlines for temporary swaps, the Associated Press reported, citing an official from an aviation regulator.

Another baby stolen by woman in burqa

MUMBAI: Even as the Bombay high court on Monday afternoon was coming down heavily on the BMC for the spate of baby-stealing incidents that have been occurring in municipal hospitals, another baby was stolen from a BMC-run primary health centre in Govandi. The two-month-old, Sahil Ansari

Close shave for 125 as AI plane tyre bursts

LUCKNOW: Passengers of an Air India flight from Mumbai had a narrow escape after the aircraft’s tyre burst at the time of touchdown at Amausi airport here on Monday. The Varanasi-bound flight IC-195 landed at Amausi at 11.30am with a loud noise. It later turned out that one of the eight tyres on the left side of the plane had burst.

Indian millionaire ’to buy iconic UK holiday company Pontin’s’

Indian millionaire Bhanu Choudhrie has teamed up with the Dubai Royal Family in a bid to rescue iconic British holiday company Pontin’s which has gone into administration, a media report said.

Mangalore MP demands Bangalore-Udupi train

MANGALORE: Mangalore MP Nalin Kumar Kateel has demanded a night train from Bangalore to Udupi. Mr. Kateel told presspersons here on Saturday that Minister of State for Railways E. Ahmed had assured him that Mangalore would get an additional train.

ಮೂಡಬಿದಿರೆಯ ಆಳ್ವಾಸ್ ಶಿಕ್ಷಣ ಪ್ರತಿಷ್ಠಾನದ ಆಶ್ರಯದಲ್ಲಿ ದೀಪಾವಳಿ 2010 ಸಂಭ್ರಮ....

ಮೂಡಬಿದಿರೆಯ ಆಳ್ವಾಸ್ ಶಿಕ್ಷಣ ಪ್ರತಿಷ್ಠಾನದ ಆಶ್ರಯದಲ್ಲಿ ಶನಿವಾರ ವಿದ್ಯಾಗಿರಿ ಸುಂದರಿ ಆನಂದ ಆಳ್ವ ಆವರಣದಲ್ಲಿ ದೀಪಾವಳಿ 2010 ಸಂಭ್ರಮದಿಂದ ಆಚರಿಸಲಾಯಿತು. ಮೂಡಬಿದ್ರೆ ಜೈನ ಮಠದ ಚಾರುಕೀರ್ತಿ ಭಟ್ಟಾರಕ ಮಹಾಸ್ವಾಮಿಗಳು ಹಾಗೂ ಡಾ.ಎಂ.ಮೋಹನ ಆಳ್ವರು ಸಾಂಪ್ರದಾಯಿಕವಾಗಿ ತುಳುನಾಡ ಜಾನಪದ ಪರಿಕರಗಳಿಗೆ ಪೂಜೆ ನೆರವೇರಿಸಿ ಉದ್ಘಾಟಿಸಿದರು. ವಿವಿಧ ಸಾಂಸ್ಕೃತಿಕ ಕಾರ್ಯಕ್ರಮಗಳು ನಡೆದವು.

Mangalore boy’s doodle to go live on Google India homepage

BANGALORE: A Mangalore-based 14-year-old student’s doodle has been chosen from over 1 lakh entries from the country and will go live on Google India homepage on Sunday to mark Children’s Day. Akshay Raj, a class IX student of St Aloysius High School, Mangalore, is the

Myanmar pro-democracy icon Suu Kyi tastes freedom

YANGON: Myanmar’s pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi walked free on Saturday from the lakeside home that has been her prison for most of the past two decades, to the delight of huge crowds of waiting supporters. Waving and smiling, the petite but indomitable Nobel Peace Prize winner appeared outside the crumbling mansion where she had been locked up by the military junta for 15 of the past 21 years.

Vettel on pole for Abu Dhabi title decider

Red Bull’s titlechasing Sebastian Vettel claimed pole position on Saturday for Sunday’s championship-deciding season-ending Abu Dhabi Grand Prix, outpacing another title rival Briton Lewis Hamilton of McLaren by just 0.031 seconds.

New Saudi train ready to shuttle Haj pilgrims

The Mashair Railway, also known as Makkah Metro, rolls out on Sunday to serve pilgrims beginning the annual Haj thereby bringing a new solution to crowding.

Villagers thwart sacrifice, save boy from father

BANGALORE/YADGIR: Offering human sacrifice to propitiate the Gods may not be a novelty in North Karnataka, but the incident which took place in newly-formed Yadgir district on Thursday night can jolt the most cynical heart.

Stop attacks on RSS offices, BJP tells Congress

The BJP on Saturday asked the Congress to stop attacks on RSS offices by its workers in protest against K.S. Sudarshan’s remarks against Sonia Gandhi and warned that failure to do so would lead to nation-wide agitations against alleged corruption in 2G spectrum allocation, Commonwealth Games and Adarsh Housing Society