Belgaum (Karnataka), Dec 6 : The spirit of "Hindi-Chini Bhai-Bhai" was rekindled here when the 137-member Chinese Army contingent in India for a joint anti-terror exercise stunned their Indian counterparts when they sang with great respect and honour India''s national anthem.

Around 90 soldiers of the 1st company of the infantry battalion of the Chengdu Military Area Command stood in line and sang "Jana Gana Mana" in unison, surprising Indian Army personnel during the official banquet hosted here at Maratha Light Infantry Regimental Centre here on Friday.

Belgaum (Karnataka), Dec. 6 : The first-ever Sino-Indian military combat exercises on Indian soil to counter terror and insurgency began here this morning.

“The Sino-Indian military joint exercises are drills. We are looking for confidence-building measures,” said. Major General V K Narula, Additional Director General (Public Information) at the Army Headquarters, here.

“ The joint training exercise is based on a Memorandum of Understanding signed by the defence ministers of two countries,” said the leader of Chinese Army delegation, Senior Colonel Huang Xue Cing.

Huang also said that the Indian Army had given a very welcome to the 137-strong Chinese Army contingent.

Marg Limited, India’s leading Infrastructure and RealEstate development company, has received a contract from the Karnataka government.

The scope of order involves development of airport at Bijapur, Karnataka.

However, the company did not disclose the financial details of the deal.

Recently, the company laid foundation stone for the country’s first fishing harbour on a Public Private Partnership model, at Rajakamangalam Thurai in Kanyakumari district, Tamil Nadu. 

New Delhi/Hyderabad/Karnataka, Dec 2 (ANI): Union Railway Minister Lalu Prasad Yadav demanded Kerala Chief Minister V. S Achuthanandan’s resignation here today.

“It is a very serious thing what Kerala''s Chief Minister has said and I will request the leadership that they should ask Achuthanandan to quit,” said Lalu.

He was reacting to an objectionable remark reportedly made by Kerala CM, after being snubbed by bereaved Major Sandeep Unnikrishnan’s father, when he visited his house in Bangalore on November 30.

The Karnataka police arrested the wife of notorious forest brigand Veerappan on the Karnataka-Tamil Nadu border in connection with crimes, she committed along with her deceased husband.

Muthulakshmi, wife of Veerappan, the man who haunted the states of Karnataka and Tamil Nadu for several years, was arrested by the Karnataka police near Mettur early Wednesday morning.

Bangalore, Nov. 19 : A roadside cobbler in Bangalore city has nurtured a big dream to earn name and fame for himself. He is determined to one day realize it by raising a collection of miniature shoes and sandals.

Fifty-year-old K. R. Shivshankar maintains a 6` by 3`shop, where he spends his day mending and polishing shoes and sandals of the passers by.