Tiruvannamalai: An overlooked government pamphlet and a timely call to the collector’s office have come to redefine the life of N Nandhini who took on her family, standing her ground against child marriage. Determined to pursue her dream of becoming an IAS official, Nandhini, 14, from Vadakkumedu village in ArniContinue Reading
Mahasamund: Police in Chhattisgarh’s Mahasamund have arrested six persons, including three tantriks and a teacher, for the murder of an ad-hoc teacher on January 21. Mahasamund crime branch and Khagari Police said the victim, Jagdish Minj, was trying to multiply his money with the help of black magic. The accusedContinue Reading
For the first time, a church led by its supreme head took to the streets to show solidarity with the trade unions who had called for a motor strike on January 24 to protest against the spiraling petrol and diesel prices. It was the Church of South India (CSI) whoContinue Reading
By Reetika Khera New Delhi: Aadhaar, India’s grand program to provide a unique 12-digit identification number to each of its 1.3 billion residents, appears to be collapsing under its own ambitions. When it was set up by the Congress Party-led government in 2009, it was touted as a voluntary biometricContinue Reading
By KAI SCHULTZ New Delhi: For the first time ever, the Taj Mahal, India’s monument to eternal love, is getting a serious cleaning. For more than 350 years, monsoon rains in Agra, the bustling city where the monument sits, were enough to wash dirt off the structure’s walls. But pollutionContinue Reading
On the bare floor of a police lock-up in Satna, Madhya Pradesh, 32 priests and seminarians were forced to sit through a winter night last month, like criminals. They were detained after a Bajrang Dal mob attacked them, apparently for singing Christmas carols, burnt their car and thrashed them evenContinue Reading
Bhopal: A question at a general knowledge quiz by the BJP’s youth wing, the Bharatiya Janata Yuva Morcha here on Tuesday raised a storm with the question describing the country’s first Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru as “greedy”. The Congress then questioned the contribution of Deendayal Upadhyay and the Rashtriya SwayamsevakContinue Reading
By Patricia Mukhim Every political party contesting the assembly election to the three states of Tripura, Nagaland and Meghalaya is speaking about change. Interestingly, even the ruling Congress in Meghalaya, the NPF-BJP combine in Nagaland and the CPI (M) in Tripura are talking of ‘change’ as if that is asContinue Reading
Saurav Bora Tura: Growing intolerance and attacks on Christians in other parts of the country is a cause of concern for Church leaders here in Garo Hills. “Church leaders here are apprehensive of the growing intolerance against Christians even as the current atmosphere in Garo Hills is peaceful and normal.Continue Reading
Thiruvananthapuram: Kerala’s longest murder probe took another turn on January 22 with a CBI court ordering the investigating agency to arraign former crime branch Superintendent of Police K T Michael as an accused in the Sister Abhaya murder case for allegedly destroying evidence. Sister Abhaya was found dead in theContinue Reading