New Delhi : India has registered a significant decline in Infant Mortality Rate (IMR). According to the just-released SRS bulletin, IMR of India has declined by three points (8% decline), from 37 per 1000 live births in 2015 to 34 per 1000 live births in 2016, compared to two pointsContinue Reading
Patna: In what is surely a rarity, a woman in Bihar has lodged a complaint against her father-in-law for not constructing a toilet in their house and sought help police help in this matter, police said on Friday. After her father-in-law ignored repeated requests to construct a toilet in theirContinue Reading
Uzhunnalil addressed the Standing Committee of the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of India in the Karnataka state capitalContinue Reading
India ranks second after Malawi among 12 countries where a second grader could not read a word of a short textContinue Reading
The incident took place around 10.30 am during rush hour near a ticket windowContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter New Delhi: Father Tom Uzhunnalil, who spent 18 months in captivity of Islamic militants in Yemen, arrived in New Delhi on September 28 . “I thank God for giving me a day like this,” Father Uzhunnalil said soon after he arrived in the national capital byContinue Reading
Darjeeling: A Gorkha front on September 26 withdrew its stir for a separate state after more than 100 days. The Darjeeling hills of northern West Bengal state have witnessed a near total shutdown during the period. Bimal Gurung, president of Gorkhaland, Gorkha Janmukti Morcha (GJM) announced the withdrawal of theContinue Reading
The panchayat election is on October 7Continue Reading
Bengaluru:Several parents of the children studying at Baldwin Girls’ High School have approached the Karnataka State Commission for Protection of Child Rights (KCPCR) demanding the removal of Baldwin Methodist Education Society’s chairman Bishop N L Karkare. They alleged that as Karkare has been accused of sexually harassing a woman, heContinue Reading
There were such 65 girls illegally detained at the center Continue Reading