A man has confessed to killing a 28-year-old Irish woman who was found dead near a beach in Goa, police have told Sky News. Danielle McLaughlin’s body was found near Deobagh beach in Canacona, popular with tourists, police said. A 23-year-old man was arrested on suspicion of murder and policeContinue Reading
New Delhi: The Delhi State Election Commission (SEC) on Tuesday rejected Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal’s demand to hold upcoming elections to the three municipal corporations in Delhi using ballot papers instead of EVMs. Kejriwal had asked the commission to conduct the April 22 polls through the old system of ballotContinue Reading
The move will be enforced from AprilContinue Reading
Ghaziabad: A group of about a hundred people on Tuesday protested outside District Magistrate Nidhi Kesarwani’s office here, demanding that President Pranab Mukherjee order a probe into the functioning of electronic voting machines (EVMs) and the results of the just-conducted assembly elections be put on hold till the probe is complete.Continue Reading
Bhubaneswar:Church leaders in eastern India are backing a campaign to overturn recent amendments to decades-old land laws, saying the changes will hurt indigenous communities and lead to privatization of protected territory. Lawmakers in eastern Jharkhand state in November approved changes to two colonial-era laws that would allow the state toContinue Reading
Shillong: The All Meghalaya Dancers’ Association (AMDA) on Monday submitted a memorandum to Chief Minister Mukul Sangma demanding that AMDA be recognized as a government sponsored body in facilitating the unexposed talented dancers and singers of the present and next generations. In the memorandum submitted to the CM, the AssociationContinue Reading
C.M. Paul Darjeeling — Salesian College Sonada (estd 1938) is holding an international inter-disciplinary conference on Darjeeling and the Eastern Himalayas: A Multidisciplinary Approach from 14th to 15th March 2017. Of 60 abstracts received 48 papers are being presented in three parallel and technical sessions. Sikkim Central University Vice ChancellorContinue Reading
The state witnessed a spate of rape and murders of womenContinue Reading
The journalists were wounded in police actionContinue Reading
The remains were discovered at Mehtakhedi, village Continue Reading
