NEW DELHI: Indian national Gurdip Singh, who was to be executed on Thursday on drug charges in Indonesia, has not been put to death, External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj said today. “Indian Ambassador in Indonesia has informed me that Gurdip Singh whose execution was fixed for last night, has notContinue Reading
In the last 6 months, 19 infants have died in Nagada village due to malnutrition and related diseasesContinue Reading
Chennai: Tamil poet Gnanakoothan, who lampooned the foibles of Tamil society and politics in scathing verse, died here on Thursday. He was 78 and is survived by his wife and two sons. Though he had a strong foundation in Tamil classical literature, including Sangam poetry, Kamba Ramayanam and Bhakti poetry andContinue Reading
250 Hindu Dalit families from two Tamil Nadu villages, Pazhangkallimedu and Nagapalli, are planning to convert to Islam. The reason? During the five-day annual temple festival, the Dalits were denied entry into the temple. Six Dalit Hindus from the village have already embraced Islam, the report says. The coastal villageContinue Reading
A Salesian priest from Assam who has worked for over two decades with Mising community of Assam for their social and educational up-lift has been honoured with the Jewel of India award. Fr. K. A. Thomas, SDB founder-director of Institution for Culture And Rural Development (I-CARD), Jorhat, was awarded the “Jewel ofContinue Reading
Pavana Amara waived her anonymity as a rape victim to launch the My Body Back projectContinue Reading
Glass panels and false ceiling have collapsed with bizarre frequencyContinue Reading
NEW DELHI: It took the trustees of the prestigious Ramon Magsaysay award almost a fortnight to get in touch with Bezwada Wilson to tell him that he has been selected to receive the award. The 50-year-old national convenor of the Safai Karamchari Andolan, which works to eradicate manual scavenging, hasContinue Reading
CHENNAI: Dhanalakshmi was 14 and pregnant when she was rescued from a children’s home in the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu. She had been entrusted in the care of the unregistered institution by her mother, a ragpicker who could no longer afford another mouth to feed. But instead ofContinue Reading
New Delhi : The Indian embassy in Qatar is making preparations for an appeal to the country’s Supreme Court on behalf of two Indians on death row and a third serving a life sentence in Qatar, the government said on Thursday. While Subramanian Alagappa and Chilladurai Perumal have been sentencedContinue Reading