Ranchi: Rashtriya Isai Mahasangh will stage a demonstration in front of Raj Bhavan on Sunday to demand the withdrawal of Right to Fair Compensation and Transparency in Land Acquisition, Rehabilitation and Resettlement (Jharkhand Amendment) Act that was recently approved by the President. It will also submit a memorandum to governorContinue Reading
New Delhi: The Supreme Court will hear on July 17 the anticipatory bail plea of Father Soni Abraham Varghese in connection with the sex scandal case involving four clergymen attached to the Malankara Orthodox Syrian Church in Kerala. A Bench of Chief Justice Dipak Misra and Justices AM. Khanwilkar andContinue Reading
Jammu: A huge boulder rolled down a 100-foot high waterfall in Reasi district of Jammu and Kashmir on Sunday, killing seven people and injuring 30 others, the police said. A group of people, mostly youngsters, were bathing under the Siar Baba waterfall, one of the biggest in north India, atContinue Reading
Ahmedabad: Primary students of the Ahmedabad’s municipal schools will get a free haircut every month as part of the local civic corporation’s ‘Ek Kadam Swachhate Ki Aur’ programme, a senior official said Sunday. The Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation inked an agreement with the International School of Aesthetics and Spa (ISAS), anContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter New Delhi: Farmers are planning nationwide agitation against the federal government. Farmers across the country are planning to launch a sustained agitation against the policies of the government of Prime Minister Narendra Modi that they believe have added to rural distress and threaten their livelihoods. AboutContinue Reading
Thiruvananthapuram: A second priest, among the four Orthodox priests booked for rape and molestation of a 34-year-old woman in Kerala, was arrested on June13. Johnson P Mathew, a counsellor, was arrested from Kozhencherry in Pathnamthitta district, and is being questioned by crime branch officials, according to sources. His anticipatory bailContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter New Delhi: A group of civil society groups and others held a protest rally in Delhi on July 13 with regard to starvation death in Jharkhand. “We have made our statement on the issue. Today we in person as many as possible assemble at Jharkhand BhavanContinue Reading
Mumbai: Maharashtra has recorded 1,307 farmer suicides till the end of June this year, according to official data. This translates to an average of 7 cases every single day in the six-month span, despite a loan waiver declared last year. The state has recorded only 91 fewer cases than 2017.Continue Reading
New Delhi: College students in Mumbai could soon be getting a copy of Bhagavad Gita from the state government. According to News18, the Maharashtra Education Department has decided to distribute Bhagavad Gita to the students in 100 colleges in Mumbai that have been accredited A and A+. However, state EducationContinue Reading
Anantapur: Six workers died and two others were taken ill in a gas leakage at a multinational steel company in Andhra Pradesh’s Anantapur district on Thursday evening, police said. The incident occurred in Gerdau Steel plant on the outskirts of Tadipatri town. The gas leakage occurred in furnace wing ofContinue Reading
