Church official visits federal home minister
2017-07-05
The minister sprained his left ankle three weeks agoContinue Reading
Beef export rising even as mobs lynch innocents: The curious case of Gaurakshaks
2017-07-05
Qasid Ahmed Siddiqui For the first time in many years, India is garnering global attention for all wrong reasons i.e., murders in the name of cow vigilantism. One can’t imagine any other major event apart from 2012 Gujrat Riots that garnered similar attention internationally and for all wrong reasons; theContinue Reading
Minorities’ panel ‘satisfied’ with action in Ballabhgarh lynching
2017-07-05
New Delhi: The National Commission for Minorities (NCM) on Tuesday “expressed satisfaction” with the action taken by the district authorities and police in the June 22 lynching of 16-year-old Junaid Khan in Ballabhgarh. The commission had sought a report on the incident from Deputy Commissioner of Faridabad, which was discussedContinue Reading
Traffickers find new ways to smuggle northeast girls
2017-07-04
Young girls from India’s remote northeast are lured with promises of good jobs and trafficked to Southeast Asia and the Middle East on Nepalese passports, campaigners say, amid fears traffickers are finding new ways to escape checks. “Over a 100 girls from the northeast and northern part of West BengalContinue Reading
Temple, cross desecrated in Goa
2017-07-04
The incident seen as a cowardly act of a few anti-social elements with the intention to disturb the peaceContinue Reading
Gorkhaland, an idea whose time has come
2017-07-04
Swaraj Thapa Jairam Ramesh, the former Congress minister whom I consider a friend, once took me by surprise when he casually asked how often I went home to Kathmandu. Expressing my displeasure, I said I was as Indian as he is and that I hailed from Darjeeling in India whereContinue Reading
Keeping up the momentum of agitation now challenge before hill parties
2017-07-04
Darjeeling: The Gorkhaland Movement Coordination Committee that was set up to spearhead the movement for a separate state and will have its first meeting on July 6 will wrestle with the question of keeping up the morale of the agitators. With the initial wave of agitation already behind them, theContinue Reading
Casteist social media slurs punishable: Court
2017-07-04
The ruling plugs the gap between online abusers and their prosecution,Continue Reading
Supreme Court dismisses Jacobite church’s plea
2017-07-04
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on July 3 dismissed a petition by the Jacobite Syrian Christian Church in a case related to the ownership of the St Peter’s and St Paul’s Church at Kolenchery. The court ruled that the church had to be governed in accordance with the constitution ofContinue Reading
Indian Jews hope for minority status
2017-07-02
New Delhi: India’s small community of Jews is looking forward to Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visit to Israel — the first ever by an Indian Premier — hoping that it will lead to Jews being granted a minority status in India. Some 6,000 Indian Jews live in the country, whichContinue Reading