Mumbai: The Mumbai-Goa Tejas Superfast Express‘ maiden run on Monday has left Railway Minister Suresh Prabhu understandably chuffed. What Prabhu probably doesn’t know, and what has left the railway officials visibly sheepish, is the railway staff reporting that several headphones were stolen from the train during its very first journey.Continue Reading
Church of Our Lady of Springs on the Anjedive island is in ruins and might collapse as neither the govt nor the sheperds of the church are interested in one of the oldest churches in India. History is testimony to the fact that on August 22, 1502 Fr Henrique deContinue Reading
New Delhi: There is a need to question those in power as it is fundamental to preserving the nation and a truly democratic society, President Pranab Mukherjee said on Thursday. He also underscored the need for greater accommodation in public discourse as democracy will be the “loser” if people refusedContinue Reading
New Delhi: A man was shot dead and four women of his family were allegedly gang-raped at gunpoint in the early hours of Thursday on the highway near Jewar in Uttar Pradesh, around 68 km from Delhi. The family of four men and four women was travelling in a carContinue Reading
They were arrested on May 22 on alleged conversion chargesContinue Reading
Dehradun: At least 24 pilgrims from Madhya Pradesh’s Indore district were killed and eight were injured when a bus fell into a gorge in Uttarakhand late yesterday night, police said. The bus was coming from Gangotri shrine before it fell into the gorge near Nalupani in Uttarkashi district. Three peopleContinue Reading
Imphal: Manipur Chief Minister N. Biren Singh on Tuesday said the bodies of eight tribal activists killed in mob violence in September 2015 in the state’s Churachandpur district will be buried on Wednesday. Singh has been invited to the burial of the bodies of the activists which had been preservedContinue Reading
The Church of South India has expressed significant concern over a government recommendation that genetically modified mustard be made commercially available. The Department of Ecological Concerns of the CSI Synod said it was “anguished” to learn from the media that the Ministry of Environment, Forests & Climate Change (through itsContinue Reading
Singh toured Manipur’s troubled hill districts to appeal for peaceContinue Reading
Thiruvanathapuram, Kerala: A court in Kerala’s Thiruvananthapuram has sentenced criminal Devinder Singh, popularly known as ‘Bunty Chor’, to 10 years in prison for burgling a city-based businessman’s residence in 2013. The criminal, who was convicted of the crime in April, was arrested by the Kerala police from a hotel in PuneContinue Reading
