Darjeeling: Amid an indefinite strike approaching two months, the district administration of Darjeeling has launched a crackdown against hoteliers who have expanded their properties in violation of building regulations after it transpired that Gorkhaland activists were attacking security personnel from hotel terraces. The district administration has started to send noticesContinue Reading

Siliguri : The Bengal government Monday clamped prohibitory orders in different localities around Siliguri to prevent a spillover of the statehood agitation from the hills to the plains, the first such measure by the administration in recent memory. Officials pointed out that during the earlier phases of the Gorkhaland movementContinue Reading

The next Youth Day will take place in India in 2020, the second time the South Asian nation will be hosting the continental-level Catholic Church event since 2003. Cardinal Oswald Gracias made the announcement on Sunday at the end of the concluding Mass of the 7th Asian Youth Day (AYD7),Continue Reading

Thiruvanathapuram: Statistics released by Kerala’s Crime Records Bureau show that the conflict-ridden political scenario in Kerala has taken a turn for the worse . Since the emergence of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-led National Democratic Alliance (NDA) government in 2014, and by the assumption of office by the Left DemocraticContinue Reading

By Ladislaus L D’Souza Seventy years of independence from British rule! In the seven decades gone by India has achieved much to earn its place in the Sun. From the bullock-cart age to the Computer age to the age of internet, twitter, WhatsApp, Instagram and what have you, free IndiaContinue Reading