By Matters India Reporter Bhubaneswar: The Campaign for Kandhamal’s seven innocents – six of them illiterates including a mentally challenged – languishing in jail for nine years due to Sangh Parivar fraud, crossed a big milestone (Feb 28) reaching 10,000 signatures. Journalist Anto Akkara who anchors the campaign for sevenContinue Reading
New Delhi: A woman caught hold of a man by the collar and slapped him before dragging him to a police station for making obscene comments in a crowded market in west Delhi. The incident occurred on February 25 when a group of four-five men started harassing the woman whoContinue Reading
Thiruvanathapuram: A group of the state’s prison inmates will have an opportunity to display their cricketing skills when they take on a Sri Lankan delegation in a friendly T20 cricket match. The match will be held at the Sports Hub at Karyavattom, Thiruvanathapuram on Wednesday at 2 pm. Chief MinisterContinue Reading
New Delhi: The percentage of Muslim population in Assam is 34 pc; the majority of them are Bengali Muslims who have settled here from the past 100 years. Most of them are poor, illiterate and agricultural labours, but RSS, ruling BJP and their like-minded local parties say that lakhs ofContinue Reading
Human rights activist and journalist Teesta Setalvad was to conduct the workshopContinue Reading
Meghalaya and Nagaland voted todayContinue Reading
Kochi: The Kerala High Court on February 26 sharply criticised the counsel of Syro-Malabar Catholic Church Cardinal George Alencherry for pointing out to the court that as far as the Cardinal is concerned, the appellate authority is the Pope. Taking a strong view of the Cardinal’s counsel’s contention, the courtContinue Reading
Chennai: The Kanchipuram district administration has decided to close down St. Joseph’s Hospice – a home for old destitutes – and shift the inmates to other homes, said an official. The hospice whose licence was not renewed for sometime by the district administration is under investigation, the official said. TheContinue Reading
Shillong: The general assembly of the Presbyterian Church of India has reminded voters of the state as well as Nagaland not to fall prey to clandestine and covert monetary distributions and that people should not be intimidated or coerced into voting for any particular candidate or political party. In aContinue Reading
The body of Meghalaya’s most wanted militant and Commander-in-Chief of Garo National Liberation Army (GNLA) Sohan D Shira, who was killed by elite Special Force (SF) – 10 Commandos of Meghalaya police in on Saturday afternoon, reached his residence on Sunday at Nengmandal village near Williamnagar town under East GaroContinue Reading