Education key to empower marginalized: seminar
2017-03-17
The seminar highlighted the marginalization of Dalit, tribalsContinue Reading
Indian ranks 148 in women parliamentarians
2017-03-17
India has women in important ministriesContinue Reading
Tamil Nadu holds public hearing on Dalit Christian discrimination
2017-03-17
Nine-member jury to release its report in a weekContinue Reading
Clerics from Delhi’s Hazrat Nizamuddin dargah missing in Pakistan
2017-03-16
New Delhi: Two Indian clerics, including the head priest of New Delhi’s Nizamuddin Dargah, have gone missing in Pakistan, prompting India to take up the matter with the Pakistani government. According to official sources in New Delhi, Asif Nizami, the chief priest, and Nazim Nizami had gone to visit the famousContinue Reading
Goa cop claims Catholic saint helped him to track tourist’s killer
2017-03-16
Panaji : A police officer who led the probe into the brutal murder of an Irish tourist in Goa on March 13 has claimed that his patron saint, St. Anthony of Padua, helped him track the killer. In a Facebook post uploaded late on Wednesday, Deputy Superintendent of Police (Canacona)Continue Reading
Borim : The village that inspired a Goan poet
2017-03-16
Borim or Bore is the first village in Ponda taluka that one has to pass through when commuting from Salcete and other parts of South Goa to North Goa and even to the neighbouring state of Karnataka. Encompassing a land area of 1,536.07 acres and housing a population of 8,257Continue Reading
Irish woman found dead on Goa beach, man arrested
2017-03-15
A man has confessed to killing a 28-year-old Irish woman who was found dead near a beach in Goa, police have told Sky News. Danielle McLaughlin’s body was found near Deobagh beach in Canacona, popular with tourists, police said. A 23-year-old man was arrested on suspicion of murder and policeContinue Reading
Election panel rejects demand for ballot paper
2017-03-15
New Delhi: The Delhi State Election Commission (SEC) on Tuesday rejected Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal’s demand to hold upcoming elections to the three municipal corporations in Delhi using ballot papers instead of EVMs. Kejriwal had asked the commission to conduct the April 22 polls through the old system of ballotContinue Reading
South Delhi restaurants to let you pee for fee
2017-03-15
The move will be enforced from AprilContinue Reading
Protest in Ghaziabad over alleged tampering with voting machines
2017-03-15
Ghaziabad: A group of about a hundred people on Tuesday protested outside District Magistrate Nidhi Kesarwani’s office here, demanding that President Pranab Mukherjee order a probe into the functioning of electronic voting machines (EVMs) and the results of the just-conducted assembly elections be put on hold till the probe is complete.Continue Reading