Darjeeling: Amid an indefinite strike approaching two months, the district administration of Darjeeling has launched a crackdown against hoteliers who have expanded their properties in violation of building regulations after it transpired that Gorkhaland activists were attacking security personnel from hotel terraces. The district administration has started to send noticesContinue Reading
Siliguri : The Bengal government Monday clamped prohibitory orders in different localities around Siliguri to prevent a spillover of the statehood agitation from the hills to the plains, the first such measure by the administration in recent memory. Officials pointed out that during the earlier phases of the Gorkhaland movementContinue Reading
Thiruvanathapuram: Statistics released by Kerala’s Crime Records Bureau show that the conflict-ridden political scenario in Kerala has taken a turn for the worse . Since the emergence of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-led National Democratic Alliance (NDA) government in 2014, and by the assumption of office by the Left DemocraticContinue Reading
Kohima: Churches in Nagaland Friday organised a motorbike rally to spread the message: “Election is a sacred duty for Christians”. The state assembly election is due early next year. The apex church body Nagaland Baptist Church Council (NBCC) supported by other Christian organisations have been holding awareness campaigns to haveContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter New Delhi: An open letter from 101 senior Christian intellectuals wants Church leaders in India to support civil society’s struggle to safeguard the country’s cultural and religious plurality and diversity. The August 4 letter sent to all Catholic bishops and others urges them to join theContinue Reading
New Delhi: More than half of the languages spoken by India’s 1.3 billion people may die out over the next 50 years, scholars said on Thursday, calling for a concerted effort to preserve the tongues spoken by the nation’s endangered tribal communities. The People’s Linguistic Survey of India (PSLI) raisedContinue Reading
Patna: Jharkhand’s BJP-led government headed by chief minister Raghubar Das on Tuesday cleared the draft of an anti-conversion bill with provisions of jail term up to four years and fine up to Rs 1 lakh for those converting anyone’s religion through force or allurement. With the government planning to introduceContinue Reading
United Nations: India is the world’s third-biggest exporter of beef and is projected to hold on to that position over the next decade, according to a report by the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) and the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD). The OECD-FAO Agricultural Outlook 2017-2026 report, releasedContinue Reading
Before Independence Day celebrations on August 15, Delhi Police’s special cell today arrested a woman and seized 14 pistols and 14 magazines from her. According to Delhi Police, these arms were meant for supply in Delhi-NCR area. The woman, an alleged arms smuggler, was arrested from Delhi’s Shastri Park areaContinue Reading
Narmada dam oustees in Madhya Pradesh, some of whose districts face the threat of submergence due to closure of the gates of the Sardar Sarovar dam in neighbouring Gujarat, today stood their ground even as the water level in the Narmada river is rising steadily. The state government had askedContinue Reading
