Mangaluru : Two youngsters from Dakshina Kannada who sent at a sheep farm in Saudi Arabia for the past five months, are seeking help from the Indian embassy in the Gulf country to return home. Damodar Shettigar, 31, of Gandhinagar in Ganjimat near Mangaluru, and Puneeth Jayaraj, 25, of Mulki left for Saudi Arabia in […]

New Delhi : Two out of four Indian teachers kidnapped in Libya allegedly by the Islamic State terror group (ISIS) while returning to India from Tripoli on July 29 were released today. “Four Indians abducted in Libya – I am happy we have been able to secure the release of Lakshmikant and Vijay Kumar. Trying […]

Kadul : Afghan security forces gather around the lifeless body of a terrorist at the site of a clash between terrorists and security forces at the Indian Consulate in Herat, Afghanistan on Friday. Terrorists armed with machine guns and rocket-propelled grenades attacked the Indian Consulate.  After a nine-hour-long encounter, all four heavily-armed terrorists, who had […]

Mangalore :  A placement firm in Mangalore has reportedly cheated  nearly 21 people from various places  after  collecting thousands of rupees from them and promising jobs in Dubai. Nine of the 21 men have returned to their hometown with the help of Indian Embassy. According to one of the affected person, Jagadish of Murdeshwar, the […]

Giglio: Two hundred and one Indians have been rescued from aboard the sinking ship Costa Concordia, that hit rocks off the coast of Italy on Friday night, said Sunil Aggarwal, First secretary, Indian Embassy, Rome. He added that one Indian was still missing. “People saw him (the missing Indian) rescuing the passengers. There are no […]

Washington: The strongest quake to strike eastern America in more than a century rattled offices in the United States’ capital. Authorities evacuated buildings as far as New York and shut down two nuclear power plants.  The Indian Embassy, the Pentagon and the US Capitol were among the well-known buildings in Washington that were evacuated on […]