By Matters India Reporter Varanasi: A number of social activists protested the killing of the renowned lady journalist Gauri Lankesh in Varanasi on September 6. The social activists of Varanasi under the banner of Sajha Sanskriti Manch and NAPM, Joint Action Committee of the students of Banaras Hindu University alongContinue Reading
New Delhi: Road Accidents in India took 1,50,785 lives in the year 2016 according to data shared by the Ministry of Road Transport and Highways. In the annual “Road Accidents in India” publication, the government said that a total of 4,80,652 road accidents were reported in 2016. Youth in theContinue Reading
The Odisha Police on Wednesday issued guidelines for police, parents and teachers to deal with the macabre online game Blue Whale Challenge, which has claimed several lives across the country. The advisory tells parents to observe any changes in the eating or sleeping habits of children, a sudden drop inContinue Reading
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Wednesday asserted that cow vigilantism has to stop and directed states/Union Territories to appoint district nodal officers to take steps to prevent and act against perpetrators of such violence. “This must stop. What action have you taken? It is not permissible. There has toContinue Reading
Ranchi: Thirteen people, including a volleyball coach, have died over the last two days after consuming spurious liquor, police said. According to police sources, volleyball coach in Ranchi University Amit Kumar died on Wednesday after consuming spurious liquor. The first seven deaths caused by spurious liquor were reported on TuesdayContinue Reading
New Delhi: The Supreme Court has allowed a 13-year-old alleged rape survivor to terminate her 32-week-old pregnancy after taking note of a medical report. A bench comprising Chief Justice Dipak Misra and Justices Amitava Roy and A M Khanwilkar on September 6 perused the medical report filed by a boardContinue Reading
Panaji: The Goa Union of Journalists, as well a Church organisation on Wednesday, condemned the murder of journalist Gauri Lankesh. In a protest meeting organised here, Union President Kishor Naik Gaonkar said that the murder of the Bengaluru-based journalist is not an attack on an individual journalist, but an attackContinue Reading
Banaras Hindu University has expelled a graduate student from the hostel on the allegation that she was lesbian, and she was ‘corrupting’ other girl students. The girl is a student at BHU’s Women’s College and used to live in the hostel. The undergraduate student was expelled from the hostel facility,Continue Reading
Christians were trying to appropriate a ‘Hindu’ festivalContinue Reading
Advocate Joseph Sodder plans to lodge a complaint against the church and demand seizure of the footageContinue Reading
