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Asghar Ali Engineer's Struggle for Preservation of Plural Ethos (We lost Asghar Engineer on 14th May 2013. It is an irreplaceable loss to human rights movement, anti communal struggle, to the movement for preservation of secular values. This is a small tribute to my esteemed, close and very dear friend) The events of last over three decades have shown us, more than before that the efforts of...

Mangalore, May 24: Mangaluru branch of Indian Medical Association (IMA) jointly with Institute for Liver, Pancreatic Diseases & Transplantation, BGS Global Hospital, Bangalore conducted a Continuing Medical Education (CME) programme on ‘Liver Transplantation’ recently at Dr. A. V. Rao Conference Hall, IMA House, Attavar, Mangalore. A team of Liver Transplantation experts from BGS Global Hospital...

Chennai, May 24: When Moulana Mohammed Zubair Ashmi's heart grew large, literally, and failed him, it was another large heart that replaced it. If hearts have nationalities, then the first was Pakistani, and the second, Indian. The 51-year-old Pakistani religious teacher was diagnosed with a condition calleddilated cardiomyopathy' where the heart is enlarged, becomes weakened and is unable to...

Mangalore, May 21: City based entrepreneur and builder P M Abdul Khader passed away at the age of 58 in the wee hours of Monday. He is the brother P M A Razak, the chairman and managing director of Plama Developers Ltd. He is survived by his wife and three daughters. Originally from Katipalla, he was a resident of Falnir. A partner of Plama Builders, Khader had been serving as a trustee of Noorul...

Mangalore, May 20: Sulthan Gold ,Kankanady Bye pass road , Mangalore has opened exclusive section for Azwa and temple collections. Azwa collection from world gold council at sulthan gold was inaugurated by A.J.Shetty, Chairman and MD, A.J.Hospital and Mrs. Lekshmi Shetty. Temple collection section was opened by Vidya Manjunath , MD Manjunath Rubber and Dr.Asha Jyothi Rai Chairperson Chirayu...

Columbus, May 7: On our way to Makkah from Jeddah, I was surprised at the traffic. What was wrong? Everyone was actually driving within the speed limit and in their lanes. There were no cars on the shoulder. I was here for Umrah from the United States, visiting the Kingdom after seven years. “There are cameras everywhere. You get snapped and fined, if you break the law. I have received speeding...

There have been some famous prison memoirs, but Dr. Anwar Ali Javed Ali Khan's took an educational tack. His book “Learn Urdu in 30 days,” now into its third edition, is quite popular and he gets requests from as far as the U.S. for this primer of sorts. If Dr. Khan didn't pour out grim reminiscences of his eight years in prison after his arrest on terror charges, that's because he's the man he is...

When they marry off their daughter Farzana on Sunday, Madhava Reddy and Lakshmi Reddy will have set a new benchmark for secularism. The couple raised Farzana, who lost her parents, from the age of four as their own child and according to Islamic traditions Take heart. All is not lost yet. There are still people around who stand by values, pluralism and tolerance. While most cry hoarse about...

JUST A day after the Boston Marathon terror attack and less than a month after twin blasts rocked Hyderabad, 17 people were injured in a low-intensity blast near the Karnataka BJP's office in Bengaluru. Among the injured were 11 policemen who had been deployed there as it was the last day of filing nominations for the upcoming Assembly election on 5 May. While the police are yet to ascertain who...

Bangalore, Apr 18: Two candidates in the fray for the May 5 Assembly polls in Karnataka were arrested on Thursday on different counts, one of them for allegedly threatening an election officer. Munirathnam Naidu, a city corporator and Congress candidate, and Venkatesh Gowda from the Karnataka Janata Paksha (KJP), both contesting from Rajarajeshwarinagar assembly constituency, were arrested, police...