Eighty-five percent of India’s family planning budget is used to promote and conduct sterilisations on women, the head of a prominent charity said on Friday, calling for more funds to be channelled towards providing alternative forms of contraception. Poonam Muttreja, executive director of the Population Foundation of India (PFI), saidContinue Reading
Aizawl — The ebbing of militancy in Tripura has had a positive effect in the neighbouring state of Mizoram. As Tripura exited AFSPA with the number of extremist-related incidents, civilian deaths, security personnel deaths, kidnappings and encounters falling to zero this year, Mirzoram, too, saw the number of kidnappings byContinue Reading
At least 7,000 youths from Jammu and Kashmir will soon be trained for various skills to be absorbed in reputed companies like Tata and Reliance under a special scheme. The youths with graduate and post graduate degrees will be picked from across the state, including militancy-prone towns like Sopore, underContinue Reading
Kochi — Bishop of Thamarassery Remigius Inchananiyil said here on Friday that the Catholic Congress would organise a yatra for deliverance ( mochana yathra ) from Kasaragod and Thiruvananthapuram on August 8, which will converge at Angamaly. Around 1 lakh people from different dioceses of the Syro-Malabar Church are expectedContinue Reading
Ahmedabad : While deliberations may be on to partially relax prohibition in the special economic zone (SEZ) area of the Gujarat International Finance-Tec City (GIFT), the upcoming policy on tourism in the state is not likely to make any relaxations on that. Gujarat has a prohibition law in force sinceContinue Reading
New Delhi — Hailing the victory of BJP led National Democratic Alliance in the 2014 general elections as a “revolution” in the country, Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP) patron Ashok Singhal claims that India will be a Hindu nation by 2020. Mr Singhal said, “I was at the Sai Baba AshramContinue Reading
The first conference of Asian moral theologians is addressing doing theology in cross-cultural and interreligious contextContinue Reading
Quepem: Complaints filed by tribals before Quepem police under the Atrocities Act are not investigated to the satisfaction of the victims and their families, Christian Adivasi Sangatna has alleged. The tribal organization, working for the empowerment of tribals, has submitted a memorandum alleging poor investigations by the Quepem police, toContinue Reading
New Delhi: St. Stephen’s College has filed a police case against Devansh Mehta, a philosophy student who had taken principal Valson Thampu to court after he had suspended him for publishing an e-zine without his clearance, accusing him of vandalism and trespass in a chemistry lab in the college. TheContinue Reading
