NEW DELHI: In a rare gesture, President Pranab Mukherjee has set aside Union Home Ministrys recommendation and commuted the death sentence of four persons convicted of killing of 34 upper caste people in Bihar in 1992. The President gave a new lease of life on the New Year day toContinue Reading
KUNERU: At least 39 people were killed and 69 injured when engine and nine coaches of Jagdalpur -Bhubaneswar Hirakhand Express jumped the tracks in Andhra Pradesh’s Vizianagaram district with the railways suspecting sabotage behind the derailment, the third in as many months. The engine and nine coaches of the Bhubaneswar-boundContinue Reading
The dictionary was compiled and published by Father Pierre Auguste BouteloupContinue Reading
PANAJI: In a criticism of the government’s move towards a digital economy, the Archdiocese of Goa and Daman has called it a “worrisome phenomenon” and said promoting select private business interests “under the pretext of fostering economic growth, tackling corruption and ensuring transparency through digitalization, are a disturbing development”. “TheContinue Reading
20 million people linked hands along 11,292-km human chain that passed through six citiesContinue Reading
By NIDA NAJAR NEW DELHI — Streets throughout the state of Tamil Nadu in southern India were brought to a standstill on Thursday as protests over a ban on a traditional bull wrestling festival entered their third day. Protesters say the rite, Jallikattu, is part of their cultural identity, andContinue Reading
MUMBAI: The Goa Church is again in the news as parish priests have been found to be blatantly backing controversial candidates in the forthcoming Assembly elections. The Church has earlier also aken sides in the political arena, for example, it backed BJP in 2012 thus paving the way for theContinue Reading
Mumbai: Doctors in India will now get text alerts reminding them to ask families to donate organs of their deceased loved ones as part of a nationwide campaign to solve the country’s organ shortage that has fuelled a black market trade in organs. The drive, “Poochna Mat Bhoolo” – which means “don’t forgetContinue Reading
Bangladesh has such a desk, Sri Lanka is planning oneContinue Reading
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Thursday refused to give legal sanctity to divorce decrees granted by ecclesiastical tribunals, popularly known as church courts. This means anyone remarrying after such a divorce decree would be committing the offence of bigamy. A bench of Chief Justice J S Khehar and JusticeContinue Reading
