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Mangalore, Feb 3: A 16-year-old boy, staying at the Government Backward Classes and Minorities hostel at Karnad, drowned in a lake near Mulki on Sunday. The body of Akshay from Chikmagalur was recovered by residents a few minutes later.

Jan 28: "I"ve been a solar physicist for 30 years, and I"ve never seen anything quite like this," says Richard Harrison, head of space physics at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory in Oxfordshire. He shows me recent footage captured by spacecraft that have their sights trained on our star. The sun is revealed in exquisite detail, but its face is strangely featureless. “If you want to go back to...

Abu Dhabi, Jan 27: The growing interest demonstrated by university aged students and teenagers for plastic surgery is being cited as one of the key factors that will help spark continuous growth for the UAE's plastic surgery segment. According to a media statement issued by Vasilica Aesthetics, a plastic surgery consultancy firm, “recent industry reports have shown that more and more individuals...

Johannesburg, Jan 22: The South African government has ordered the removal of a rabbit that was secretly sculpted into a recently unveiled statue of Nelson Mandela, an official said today. The artists who built the nine metre (30-foot), bronze colossus in Pretoria, added a rabbit into the ear of the statue, without clearance from government. "We want to restore the integrity of the sculpture as...

Jaipur, Jan 20: Author Amish Tripathi, who created waves in Indian publishing with a USD 1 million book contract, has cracked it even bigger this time with an American producer purchasing the rights to "The Immortals Of Meluha." While Bollywood director Karan Johar has obtained the rights for an adaption of the popular book, the English rights of the same has gone to an undisclosed American...

That the Congress is on a sticky wicket is well known by now. That the party is fighting an anti-incumbency wave — never before experienced — is as well known. And that every party lives through such trying times is also no surprise, at least not to a party itself. In that, the Congress is not going through anything that has never happened to it before. So, why is the party worried? The answer to...

Jaisalmer, Jan 14: A team of foreign and Indian scientists have spotted the foot-prints of Dinosaurs at Thaiat village in Jaisalmer district, the sources said. A team of 34 foreign scientists from a number of countries including France and Germany are camping here to study fossils of Dinosaurs found in sandy desert areas here recently. Dinosaurs' evolution, extinction, and paleo-bio-genography is...

Mangalore, Jan 5: The year 2013 has been a very musical year for writer/director Sandeep Malani, who started his production with MALANITALKIES and has made a record with 9 Musical Documentaries back to back. The year has been 25 – 50 – 75 – 100 for Sandeep Malani and his productions. His Hindi film with Kalpana Pandit and a whole lot of newcomers, 'Janleva 555' although did not make a big mark at...

Mangalore, Jan 2: The School Day of Sneha Public School Pakkaladka was held at Town Hall on Tuesday December 31 at 2.00 pm. The programme commenced with a welcome dance by the students of the school followed by distribution of prizes. Praveen Chandra Alva, Corporator, Mangalore City Corporation was the chief guest. Speaking on the occasion he said, the parents to be more involved in the education...

Bhopal: Five months before next general elections are due, there is already an air of victory around Narendra Modi as he strides from one jam-packed rally to the next. And yet, a regional leader from his party - Bharatiya Janata party - is quietly emerging as an alternative to lead the country. BJP's candidate for prime minister's post, Modi is being projected as the man to beat the ruling...