New Delhi: Two Dalit children are made to share an egg during meal time in schools. Dalit students receive meals at the end. So-called higher caste students eat separately and are given an extra helping of meals. Tribal and Dalit students are seated on the last benches of the class.Continue Reading
The unmistakable chatter of typewriters outside courthouses and government offices will soon fall silent in Mumbai as stenography colleges on Friday hold their final manual exams. The roughly 3,500 institutes teaching the antiquated ways of the typewriter across Maharastra will be phased out as India pushes ahead with a driveContinue Reading
Chennai: As many as 7,620 Indian nationals are lodged in foreign jails, with the highest number in Saudi Arabia. In response to a question raised in the Lok Sabha on Wednesday, minister of state for external affairs M J Akbar said due to strong privacy laws prevailing in many countries,Continue Reading
Calcutta, Aug. 9: The rented home of the Mirik block development officer was stoned early morning yesterday – the first attack targeting a state government official during the current phase of the Gorkhaland agitation. Binay Tamang, the assistant general secretary of the Gorkha Janmukti Morcha, said: “Certain anti-socials are indulgingContinue Reading
The central government’s proposal to amend the Indian Penal Code (IPC) with stricter anti-racist provisions has received cold response from states other than the north eastern states whose people are mostly the victims of racism in India. The proposed amendment has provisions to punish those who are guilty of racistContinue Reading
The Archdiocese of Pondicherry and Cuddalore and the Commission for Scheduled Castes and Tribes will observe August 10 as a ‘black day’ in protest against denial of SC status to Dalit Christians and Muslims. Fr. A. Arputharaj, Secretary, SC/ST Commission, Puducherry, told reporters here on Monday that the presidential orderContinue Reading
Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee once again requested parties in Darjeeling Hills to shun violence so that common people could get some respite from the indefinite shutdown that entered its 55th day on Tuesday. Urging the parties to hold discussions with the state government over its demand for a separate state ofContinue Reading
By Mirza Mosaraf Hossain, TwoCircles.net It has only been a month since Basirhat was engulfed in communal tensions and in an effort to provide a healing touch and promote communal harmony, Hindus and Muslims of Basirhat celebrated Raksha Bandhan on Monday by tying Rakhi to each other under the bannerContinue Reading
Darjeeling: Gorkha Janmukti Morcha (GJM) Chief Bimal Gurung who till now constantly criticized Delhi ‘s silence over the Darjeeling impasse and even issued a deadline to the Union Government to intervene by August 8, suddenly claimed that he is being called repeatedly for talks to Delhi. As the indefinite bandhContinue Reading
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
