Jaipur: Eight persons have been arrested for attacking Tamil Nadu officials, legally transporting cows, in Rajasthan’s Barmer district, police said on Tuesday. The incident occurred on Sunday night when over 250 cow vigilantes attacked the trucks transporting cattle to Tamil Nadu and pelted stones. One person sustained minor injuries inContinue Reading
Pope Francis’s emphasis on simplicity and frugality is a hit all around the world, but it’s produced just a bit of backlash among fashion-conscious Italians, including an exclusive club of tailors and shoemakers who outfit pontiffs — some of whom are a little nostalgic for the days when being pope also meant dressing to the nines.Continue Reading
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For the first time since the pioneers set sail for the Gulf countries in the 1960s, emigration from Kerala shows signs of decline. The Kerala Migration Survey 2016, conducted by Professor Irudaya Rajan of the Centre for Development Studies, shows that 22.4 lakh migrants from Kerala live in different partsContinue Reading
This was the third such incident in less than one month in Madhya PradeshContinue Reading
Monsoon entered northeastern India on June 12Continue Reading
By Rita Joseph Noida: An unusual commotion outside her school in 2005 brought Sr. Celine Arikkat out of her principal’s office. What the Franciscan Clarist Congregation nun saw appalled her. Some people were thrashing a cycle-rickshaw taxi driver while a crowd, including the man’s friends, watched. No one dared toContinue Reading
The advice appears in a booklet federal Ayush (life) Minister Shripad Naik released in the first week of June Continue Reading
Heavy monsoon rain has triggered landslides in south-east Bangladesh, with officials reporting 100 people killed, including five soldiers. A spokesman for the Rangamati district administration said at least 60 people were killed in a series of landslides there alone. Rescue operations are being hampered by bad weather. Telecommunication links andContinue Reading