Ungarpur: On the mud floor of a hut in Rajasthan’s Dungarpur district, seven women and a man sit in a circle around three community workers. One of the community workers, marker in hand, asks why their children or grandchildren don’t go to school regularly. At first, they are silent. ThenContinue Reading
Hyderabad: Kids as young as two are being taught with tablets in schools in Hyderabad. Some schools are also keen (if not already using) on employing these latest electronic gadgets for teaching high school sections. A section of parents is strongly opposing this new form of learning, which they sayContinue Reading
Mysore: We must all have all heard of the practice of worshiping rain deities in different parts of the world. One such story, but with a very unusual deity, is being reported from the village of Belavadi near Mysore. The farmers of this tiny village believe pleasing the Frog GodContinue Reading
Guwahati: The All India Legal Aid Cell on Child Rights has decided to challenge a recent order of a lower court of Udalguri, where the latter had convicted two human traffickers under Section 370, a legal provision inserted in the law books post the infamous Nirbhaya incident. This was theContinue Reading
Apple Inc on Tuesday posted its first-ever decline in iPhone sales and its first revenue drop in 13 years as the company credited with inventing the smartphone struggles with an increasingly saturated market. The company’s sales dropped by more than a quarter in China, its most important market after theContinue Reading
Tezpur: The State Government will soon release an amount of Rs 4 crore to be paid as compensation to the next of kin of those killed by wild elephants, besides people injured or having suffered standing crop damage by the slatey grey giants. The above was disclosed by State Forest MinisterContinue Reading
The inspiration came from a restaurant in KochiContinue Reading
New Delhi: Designed like a playhouse in an open area with a pantry, small tables, chairs and a toys corner, one of the biggest court complexes of Asia, Tis Hazari, got a courtroom on Tuesday for child witnesses. The court room no.19 with other four rooms of the Tis HazariContinue Reading
Ujjain: Trikal Bhavanta, a female ascetic, on Tuesday said she is ending her life by taking ‘samadhi’ after the government failed to allocate her all women ‘Akhara’ space and time for a sacred bath at the Simhastha Kumbh pilgrimage here. She has been sitting in a 10 feet deep ditchContinue Reading
The incident which took place on Sunday, April 17, was reported in the media a few days thereafter.Continue Reading