New Delhi: Seasoned diplomat Vijay Keshav Gokhale, considered an expert on China, was yesterday named the next Foreign Secretary succeeding S. Jaishankar, who completes his extended tenure later this month. Gokhale, a 1981-batch officer of the Indian Foreign Service (IFS), had played a key role in India-China negotiations last year to resolve the 73-day standoff…
New Delhi: The website of the Prime Minister’s Office (PMO) www.pmindia.gov.in is now available in eleven regional languages, including Kannada. The Kannada website can be accessed through http://www.pmindia.gov.in/kn. The other languages are Assamese, Bengali, Gujarati, Malayalam, Manipuri, Marathi, Odia, Punjabi, Tamil and Telugu, in addition to English and Hindi.
Chennai: Just a day into his announcement, superstar Rajinikanth yesterday got down to the task of registering members of his yet-to-be launched political party right away. The 67-year-old actor asked people — his legion of followers and everyone else yearning for change in Tamil Nadu — to enrol themselves on his website. “I have launched…
Auckland: Passengers on Hawaiian Airlines’s flight 446 experienced a bit of time travel to start off their New Year. The flight, which travelled between Auckland, New Zealand and Honolulu, Hawaii, was scheduled to depart at 11.55 pm on Sunday, Dec. 31, 2017. However, because of a 10-minute delay, the flight didn’t end up taking off…
Mysuru: A CDE programme on ‘3D Printing and its applications for Health Care” was organised by the Department of Prosthodontics and Crown and Bridge, JSS Dental College and Hospital, recently. At the inauguration, Dr. B. Manjunatha, Registrar, JSS University and Dr. S. Ravindra, Principal, addressed the gathering. The speakers for the scientific session were Guru…
Bengaluru: With polls nearing, State JD(S) President and former CM H.D. Kumaraswamy will be holding an interaction with senior citizens in the State capital tomorrow. Kumaraswamy, who is setting out on a tour of North Karnataka from Jan. 5, will be interacting with elders at Jnanajyoti Auditorium here at a programme jointly organised by Mahalakshmi…
Mysuru: “Discipline in the Police Department is as important as Red Blood Cells in the human body. Also, it is equally important to recognise the contributions of people in the force like the DAR, Dog Squad and Finger Print experts who are hardly in the limelight, in spite of their significant contributions,” said Inspector General…
Revenue Minister asks DCs in Chikkamagalur, Hassan and Kodagu to submit report in a month Bengaluru: Revenue Minister Kagodu Thimmappa has said that a survey is being conducted to find out encroachment of Government land by coffee planters. Speaking to press persons here yesterday, Kagodu Thimmappa said that the re-survey is being carried out based…
Mysuru: Former Professor of Psychology, NIMHANS, Bengaluru, Dr. G.G. Prabhu said that conducting of workshops on traumatic brain injury is very important due to the increasing number of road traffic accidents. He was speaking after inaugurating a workshop on Cognitive Training in Traumatic Brain Injury, at JSS Medical College and Hospital, here recently. Dr. Prabhu…
Star Indian badminton player and Olympian Ashwini Ponnappa is the ‘Coorg Person of the Year-2017.’ What clinched the title of Coorg Person besides her sporting achievements was Ashwini’s decision to marry a fellow Kodava, instead of marrying outside her community. Ashwini, who won a gold medal in the women’s double event of the 2010 Delhi…
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