Three Air India (AI) staffers were on a high -- literally -- on their way to Singapore for a vacation. The trio created havoc on an AI flight with their unruly behaviour and kept the cabin crew, who are also their colleagues, on their toes for more than five hours last Saturday.
A ten-member Mandd Sobhann troupe from Mangalore arrived at the Dubai International Airport on Tuesday Oct 12, 2010, to perform at St Mary’s Konkan Community’s (SMKC) musical extravaganza, ’Konkan Showers-2010’. The troupe, led by Mandd Sobhann Gurkar, Eric Ozario,
It was Indian women’s day at the Commonwealth Games on Tuesday. Pistoliers Heena Sidhu and Annu Raj Singh clinched the gold medal in women’s 10 metre air pistol pairs, Mandeep, Simi, Ashwini and Manpreet won Gold in the 4x400m relay, Jwala and Ashwini
The Phoenix Arcade and the Phoenix digital studio was blessed and inaugurated recently in Shirva. The Phoenix Arcade was blessed by Rev. Fr. Stany Tauro, Parish Priest of Our Lady of Health Church, Shirva and was inaugurated by Rev. Fr. Valerian Pinto, Parish Priest
Terming the controversial floor test by Chief Minister B.S. Yeddyurappa as “farce”, Karnataka Governor H.R. Bhardwaj on Tuesday offered him another chance to seek a fresh trust vote on Thursday to prove his majority in the State Assembly. “I am prepared to give you another
The booming sound of a conch cell (shanka), shrill noise of a trumpet and pounding of flat metal disc with a wooden stick attracted my attention when I was working in the Bellevision Media Network office. As my curiosity about the source of these multiple sounds increased,
India’s long wait for athletics gold at the Commonwealth Games is over. Krishna Poonia gave the country its gold, in women’s discus, at the Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium here on Monday evening. And with Harwant Kaur and Seema Antil taking the silver and bronze, India celebrate
The railways has approved construction of a bridge at Ekkur on the National Highway 17 in the city under phase III of the National Highways Development Project. The National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) would widen the highway to four lanes between Kundapur-Surathkal
In a dramatic course of events and unprecedented commotion and confusion in the Karnataka Assembly, on the morning of Monday, 11th October 2010 the much troubled BJP Government eventually succeeded in winning the confidence motion passed by voice vote
The ‘cold desert’ of Leh on Sunday entered the Guinness Book of World Records after 50,300 saplings were planted at a village here in less than an hour by 9,000 volunteers under a drive supported by Buddhist monks to mark the ‘green’ Commonwealth Games in Delhi.
It has been a Super Sunday for India as it produced yet another eye-catching all-round display to scoop up a sackful of medals and surge past England to the second spot in the medals rostrum at the Commonwealth Games. The hosts raked up five gold medals and as many
The ‘Cha Parka Kalavider Kudla’ troupe led by popular Tulu stage artist Devadas Kapikad on Saturday, October 9, celebrated their 25 years of successful theatre journey through a jubilant cultural programme at Town Hall here. The programme was organised
A golden mask and silver coated doors were offered for the presiding deity of the Mangala Devi temple here on Friday, the first day of the Navaratri festival. Deputy Commissioner V. Ponnuraj did the honours. Temple authorities had ordered the creation of a mask of gold
Before the Commonwealth Games started, everyday we used to come to know about the preparation for the Games in India. The bridge, the damaged residential arrangement for the athletes are not good, Dengue, flood and condition of road sand and then the snake
India’s top drawer marksmen were bang on target while freestyle grapplers Yogeshwar Dutt and Narsingh Pancham Yadav came up with a power-packed display to help India bag four gold medals but England nosed ahead of the hosts in the medals table at the CWG on Saturday.