AHMEDABAD: Gujarat has had a slum rehabilitation policy since 2010, but it has not been able to accommodate hope into the lives of nearly 16.80 lakh people who live in slums. The figure is 2.48% cent of the total slum population of the country. While Ahmedabad has the second largestContinue Reading
Like their counterparts in Kerala and Karnataka, more than 15,000 fishermen in the coastal villages like Manakudi and Neerodi in the Kanyakumari district of Tamil Nadu will keep away from fishing till July 30.Continue Reading
Chhattisgarh — It’s 11 pm and the LED bulbs cast a dull, white light in the schoolyard in Ilmidi village, Bijapur district. Around 200 villagers—the men, mostly drunk, the women sleepy but excited—stream in and sit down on the bare earth. Young boys perch on the wall and serve asContinue Reading
For Sister Joyce, there is no battle between her two callingsContinue Reading
Dibrugarh — A mother in eastern Assam’s Dibrugarh district has outperformed her son in the higher secondary exam results announced last week. Nayanmoni Bezbaruah, 37, secured first division with a score of 69.8% in her HS arts exam. She had a letter (more than 80%) in sociology but missed theContinue Reading
ROSEMONT, PENNSYLVANIA: Two white-haired nuns stepped forward and embraced each other tightly. One has been living in a convent in a quiet Philadephia suburb. The other has spent the last two years in federal prison, charged with sabotage, trespassing, and destroying government property as part of a peaceful protest inContinue Reading
A newspaper report on the plight of leprosy patents drew the Bangalore team to NepalContinue Reading
