Manila: At least 37 persons were killed at a casino here in an attack which was claimed by the Islamic State even though the police continued to deny that the incident was terror-linked. A lone gunman entered the Resorts World Manila in the early hours of Friday morning, firing shotsContinue Reading
Coimbatore: Four people, including a 12-year-old girl and two women, were trampled to death by a tusker at Ganeshapuram and Vellalore in Coimbatore city in the early hours of Friday. The deceased have been identified as Gayathri, 12, daughter of Vijayakumar of Ganeshapuram, P Palanisamy, 73, of Kambar Street atContinue Reading
China, India, the European Union and others are already showing strong leadershipContinue Reading
Palakkad,Kerala: “Those were the days when rains come unexpectedly over the deep interiors of Attappady and lasted for several hours. People did not lend umbrellas to strangers, especially tribal schoolchildren returning home. I used to take refuge under some canopy till the rains were over,” recalled B. Lakshmi of theContinue Reading
Jyoti Singh and Bilkis Bano were brutalized and gangraped. What happened to them holds a mirror to the darker side of our societyContinue Reading
Survivors say 44 people have died of thirst after their truck broke down in the Sahara Desert in northern Niger, the Red Cross has told the BBC. The six survivors, all women, walked to a remote village and are being looked after in Dirkou, Niger, Red Cross official Lawal TaherContinue Reading
Washington D.C.: Flying on Sunday and need a place for Mass? A recent study revealed that 40 percent of major US airports have chapels offering Sunday Mass times for travelers and airport employees. Taking data from the 30 busiest airports in the U.S., the Pew Research Center identified airports offeringContinue Reading
Indrani Basu Two years after viral photos of mass cheating in high school exams in Bihar blew open the holes in the state’s education system, the results show a downward trend. Compared to 2015, when more than 75% students had passed the senior secondary exams, only one out of threeContinue Reading
Dumka: Amid the dip in the pass percentage of Class 10 board examination in Jharkhand, Gunjan Pal, a motor mechanic’s son has topped the state’s matric exam by securing 95.8 percent marks. He got 479 marks out of 500. He scored a full hundred in Mathematics, a whopping 98 inContinue Reading
Saba Naqvi Pushpa M. Bhargava is the founder-director of the Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology (CCMB) in Hyderabad and is seen as the architect of modern biology in India. The former vice-chairman of the National Knowledge Commission was summoned to give evidence before a committee set up by theContinue Reading