Wednesday, 31 July 2013

Mahindra Monsoon Challenge , A Thrilling Drive

 Shimoga: The Erode pair of Ganesh Moorthy and navigator T Nagarajan snatched the overall lead by topping the SUV Open category with a penalty time of one minute, 29 seconds at the end of Leg 2 here on Saturday, as competition intensified in the Mahindra Monsoon Challenge in association with Apollo Tyres.competition intensified in the Mahindra Monsoon Challenge in association with Apollo Tyres.

Modi likely to visit City in September

Bangalore:Gujrath CM Narendra Modi will visit Bangalore in September. As a BJP Campaign Committee chairperson, he is here to hold consultations with Karnataka leaders, for Lok Sabha polls preparations , said the BJP National General Secretary Ananth Kumar.

Tuesday, 30 July 2013

Caste-wise survey in Karnataka

Bangalore: A caste-wise survey would be conducted in Karnataka to obtain authentic data on social and economic conditions of households belonging to all castes, Chief Minister Siddaramaiah informed the Assembly.

Father feeds kerosene to his daughter

Gulbarga: A man is accused of feeding kerosene to his infant at Shahapur town recently.Accused Kailasaiah is said to have fed the fuel to his seventh-month-child, to threaten his wife Vishalakshi to bring dowry. Vishalakshi and Kailasaiah had entered into wedlock two years ago.

Monday, 29 July 2013

Eight drown as bus falls into lake

Hassan: Eight persons have drowned when a Karnataka State Road Transport Corporation bus overturned and plunged into a lake at Belur in the district today, police said.

Accidents due to poor condition of vehicles

Mysore: Employees of Mysore KSRTC division aired their worries about the fitness of the buses a day after the hassan bus accident, which claimed eight lives on Tuesday.

Saturday, 27 July 2013

14 years on: How India won the Kargil war against Pakistan!

Jammu and Kashmir: It is the 14th anniversary of the Kargil war victory. Its pride and pain for the soldiers as the nation celebrates the anniversary of the war victory against Pakistan.
Kashmir has always been a disputed region. There have been tensions between Pakistan and India over the region. The war was fought due to the infiltration of Pakistani soldiers and Kashmiri militants into positions on the Indian side of the LoC which serves as the de facto border between the two countries.

Wednesday, 24 July 2013

Aditi restaurant opens to huge crowd

Mumbai:For once, people were walking into a restaurant not just for the food but for the bill. When Parel eatery, Aditi restaurant, reopened on Tuesday morning, a lot of people visited it hoping they would get a bill with a message on it.

Friday, 19 July 2013

Law on abortion rights in Ireland welcomed by family of Indian victim

Belgaum : The family of Savita Halappanavar, the Indian woman who died due to pregnancy complications in Ireland due to the country's strict abortion laws, has welcomed a new initiative of the Irish Parliament to allow limited abortion rights for the first time.

Rs Two scheme will be a failure say academicians and activists

Gulbarga: One major reason high dropout rate among girls could be the economic factor , especially in schools in rural parts of the state.

Centre gives Final nod to Thermal Power Plant in Niddody

New Delhi: The union government has instructed state administration in order to convince the local residents of Niddody, in Mangalore taluk of Karnataka as it has finalized the proposal to set up mega thermal plant there.

Thursday, 18 July 2013

Co-ordination Committee and a Manifesto Implementation Committe formed in state

New Delhi : The Congress high command had announced that it would constitute  committee co-ordination committee and a manifesto implementation committee in all Congress-ruled states to ensure proper co-ordination between government as well as the party.

Air India Pilots violates the rules , allows actress to take observers seat in Cockpit

New Delhi: Another incident of Violation of rules , occured in an Air India Bangalore -Hyderabad flight,  Air India (AI) pilots allowed a prominent south Indian actress to travel in the cockpit occupying the observers seat.

Bihar: Mid-day meal was contaminated

Patna: After 24 hours of the mid  day meal tragedy, the bihar govt. revealed that a poison called organic phosphorous was responsible for the death  of the children and not because of  food poisoning.

Wednesday, 17 July 2013

Supreme Court rejects petition to reduce juvenile age from 18 to 16 years

New Delhi: The Supreme Court of India has turned down the plea to bring down legal age of juvenility in crime from 18 to 16 years. The age of juvenility would remain 18 even in serious crimes like rape and murder. 

Saturday, 13 July 2013

Modi finds himself in the controversy due to his puppy remark

New Delhi: Narendra Modi, on Friday, suddenly found himself in the midst of a controversy of seemingly scandalous proportions because of a comment, which can be framed as "puppy comment", which made his political rivals practically unite to attack him over this comment.

Friday, 12 July 2013

Thiya Samaj UAE held its successful blood donation camp

Dubai: Thiya Samaj UAE  successfully  recorded their  existence in  golden  letters in the book of blood donating  organizations  from  Indian community  by  donating  53 units of   blood  in their  maiden blood donation camp held in Latifa Hospital, Dubai ( Old Al Wasl Hospital ) on Thursday 11th July.

HAL chief manager gets three years Jail

New Delhi:  The Special Judge for CBI Cases, Bangalore has convicted Shri B. Tulasiraman, then Chief Manager, Hindustan Aeronautics Ltd.(HAL), Aircraft Division, Bangalore and sentenced him to undergo three years Rigorous Imprisonment with fine Rs.1,00,000/- in disproportionate assets case.

Saturday, 6 July 2013

Thiya Samaja UAE To Conduct Blood Donation Campaign

Dubai: Thiya Samaja UAE have organized a Blood Donation Camp at Sheikha Latifa Hospital (former Al Wasal hospital), on 11th of July, 2013 from 7.30 PM to 9.30 PM.

Friday, 5 July 2013

As per Week magazine survey NDA to win 197 seats

New Delhi: A survey by The Week magazine has predicted that NDA will win in 197 seats, UPA in 184 seats while other parties will get a total of 162 seats in the Lok Sabha polls next year. As per the survey, whose sample size was not given, UPAs vote share will come down to 31.7 per cent from 37.2 per cent in 2009 Lok Sabha polls while NDAs vote share will go up from 23.3 per cent to 26.7 per cent in the general election next year. The vote share of other parties which was 39.5 per cent in 2009 will go upto 41.6 per cent.

Ishrat Jahan had terror links :Headley tweets NIA

 New Delhi: In a major twist in the Ishrat Jahan case, Mumbai attack terrorist David Coleman Headley has reportedly said that Ishrat Jahan 19-year-old  girl, who was gunned down in an alleged fake encounter in Gujarat, was a suicide bomber and had terror links.Headley had reportedly told the National Investigation Agency (NIA) that a terror plan, plotted by Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT) commander Zaki-ur-Rahman Lakhvi, had failed after the death of Ishrat Jahan and three other men who accompanied her.Digvijay on Friday morning posted a tweet saying, "Home Ministry must clarify whether Headley told the Team which went to US to interrogate him whether Ishrat Jehan had terror links, sources said.

Asserting that the unofficial selective leaks  regarding the case is creating confusion, the Congress leader said, "Unofficial selective leaks of I Jehan case are creating confusion in the public mind which is not in the interest of our Internal Security."

Wednesday, 3 July 2013

SP, 5 others killed in Maoist attack in Jharkhand

Ranchi : The Maoists have struck. And with deadly precision. This time in Jharkhand, killing six persons, including the Superintendent of Police of Pakur district, Amarjit Balihar. The outlaws ambushed the two vehicles when the convoy was returning to the district headquarters after a meeting in Dumka.

Tuesday, 2 July 2013

Chandigarh boy tops AIIMS proves tutorials not so important

Chandigarh: Arnav Aggarwal (17)  the resident of Chandigarh not only topped the AIIMS pre-medical test, he did it without shelling loads and loads of money on tuition.

Jewellery worth Rs 200 cr seized in Mumbai

Mumbai: Monday night in one of its biggest operation of its kind , where a  courier consignment of cash, gold and diamond jewellery, worth an estimated Rs.200 crore (about $33 million) was seized by the National Investigation Agency and Income Tax Department, an official said.