Faridabad: CBI has registered a case of murder against 11 persons in connection with the killing of two infants of a dalit family in an alleged arson attack in Sunped village in Haryana on October 20. CBI sources said as per the laid down procedure, the agency has taken overContinue Reading
Kathmandu: Communist leader Bidhya Devi Bhandari was on Thursday elected as Nepal’s first woman President by the parliament, weeks after it adopted a new landmark Constitution that declared the country a secular state. 54-year-old Bidhya, the Vice-president of CPN-UML and widow of late general secretary of the party Madan Bhandari,Continue Reading
New Delhi: Government has decided to set up National Tribal Advisory Council under chairmanship of the Prime Minister for real time monitoring of various tribal development programmes and schemes in the country. “A National Tribal Advisory Council under the chairmanship of Prime Minister Narendra Modi will be set up forContinue Reading
Rome: Pope Francis has granted a plenary indulgence in the form of a jubilee year to the Legionaries of Christ and the members of Regnum Christi during the year in which they commemorate 75 years since their foundation. This jubilee will conclude with the solemnity of the Sacred Heart inContinue Reading
A senior Vatican priest, stripped of his post after admitting being in a gay relationship, has launched a scathing attack on the Roman Catholic Church. In a letter to Pope Francis this month, Krzysztof Charamsa accused the Church of making the lives of millions of gay Catholics globally “a hell”.Continue Reading
First the milk part. There was a cauldron of fresh milk kept amidst a group of people. Seeing it lying unattended one of the bystanders siphoned off some in a bottle and took it home. A second bystander wanted to drink the milk, but he was rudely pushed aside byContinue Reading
Coimbatore: The Tamil Nadu state minorities’ commission, which held a meeting at the office of the district collector, received petitions concerning various issues. Religious minority organizations, schools, colleges and other minority welfare organizations submitted their petitions to the commission and the officials of the district. According to senior officials, whoContinue Reading
United Nations: Pakistan lost its bid on Tuesday to be re-elected to the UN Human Rights Council when its current term ends this year. It polled just 105 votes in the 193-member General Assembly. Pakistan was considering running for the Council’s presidency next year, according to diplomatic sources, and hadContinue Reading
Society should resolve contentious issues through dialogueContinue Reading
The future of US-India relations depends on how good we are at convincing the AmericansContinue Reading