By Joe Wallen Sonapat, Feb 17, 2020: The odd barking dog was the only thing that cut through the silence as Jai Singh stirred in his bed in his unadorned two-room house in the sleepy, sun-bathed village of Bitchpuri. After a simple breakfast with his wife the pastor led theContinue Reading
New Delhi, Feb 17, 2020: The four convicts, who got death penalty for the gangrape and murder of a 23-year-old medical student in Delhi – dubbed Nirbhaya by the media — will be hanged at 6 am on March 3. This is the third death warrant issued by the trialContinue Reading
Kolkata, Feb. 17, 2020: Vice President M Venkaiah Naidu on Feb 16 said India is known for unity in diversity, pluralistic ethos and peaceful co-existence of all religions. This ethos should be nurtured and there should be no discrimination based on gender or differences between people, he said at anContinue Reading
The revenue of China’s wedding industry has declined since the outbreak of the novel coronavirus as many couples were forced to postpone their weddings during Chinese Spring Festival. According to a Global Times report, industry analysts and business sources said that foreign marriage companies that conducted and managed the marriageContinue Reading
Mumbai, Feb 16, 2020: Thousands of people, including several Christians, gathered at Azad Maidan in Mumbai to oppose the Citizenship (Amendment) Act (CAA), the proposed National Register of Citizens (NRC) and the National Population Register (NPR). This was the second mass gathering witnessed by Mumbai after the August Kranti MaidanContinue Reading
Bengaluru, Feb 16, 2020: Shashi Tharoor, a former federal minister and current Member of Parliament, has stressed greater allocation of GDP for health to help the poor and improve health facilities across India. Tharoor said this on February 15 while addressing the 56th annual convocation and college day of StContinue Reading
By chhotebhai Kanpur, Feb 15, 2020: Renowned human rights activist Harsh Mander has released a comprehensive report on the alleged police firing that killed many in the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh. Mandar, a former civil service officer, released the report in Hindi and English titled “A State atContinue Reading
By Thomas Scaria Bengaluru, Feb 15, 2020: The corona virus epidemics that broke in Wuhan province of China and later spread to other countries affected the third Global Public Health Conference in Bengaluru, southern India. Several overseas participants had to cancel the trip in the last minute, Isanka Gamage, theContinue Reading
By Thomas Scaria Bengaluru, Feb 15, 2020: An international conference has underlined the need for “equal rights, equal opportunities and equal participation for women” to eradicate deep-rooted disparity and discrimination prevalent in all nations. “An equal world is an enabled world,” asserted Anita Singh of the Center for Women’s StudiesContinue Reading
Amravati, Feb 15, 2020: On Valentine’s Day, students at an all-girls college in Maharashtra were made to take a pledge against the concept of love marriage. Students at the Mahila Arts and Commerce College, Chandur Railway, took the pledge in Marathi that they “will not love anyone and never haveContinue Reading
