Raipur: The Chhattisgarh government has ordered an inquiry into security personnel in Bastar torching effigies of human-rights activists early this week, and suspended eight police officers the CBI charge-sheeted in a related five-year-old case. Bastar commissioner Dilip Vasnikar will probe against uniformed men of armed auxiliary forces who set afireContinue Reading
New Delhi: Dalit Rights activist Ashok Bharti today told Caritas that the Christian community in India has a critical role to potentially change the intellectual landscape among the Dalits. Christian institutions are well organized. They are centrally placed in urban areas- where Dalits are despised, oppressed and suppressed. Educate theContinue Reading
New Delhi: Praising the country’s tribal communities for conserving the forests, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday said that “no one has right to snatch away tribals’ land”. Modi was speaking while inaugurating the first National Tribal Carnival here, which will continue from October 26-28 at Pragati Maidan. “It’s theContinue Reading
Migrant labourers of Kerala will be given the opportunity to learn Malayalam language under Kerala Literacy Mission’s equivalency course programme. The classes will begin first in Perumbavoor of Ernakulam district, where the migrant population is highest in the state. The programme will start in December and it will begin withContinue Reading
Hyderabad : After Shankaracharya of Dwarka- Sharda Peeth Swami Swaroopanand Saraswati raked up a controversy by opposing the worship of Sai Baba, RSS Tuesday contended that Hindu philosophy says there is God in every human being and hence also in Sai Baba. RSS’ All India General Secretary Bhayyaji Joshi toldContinue Reading
The trust that runs Mumbai’s Haji Ali mosque told the Supreme Court it will rescind a ban on women entering the shrine as ordered by the high court.Continue Reading
A jawan of Manipur Rifles was injured in the firingContinue Reading
Raipur: Chhattisgarh’s artists, painter and sculptors have expressed their resentment against the state government for hiring contractors from outside the state for the works of wall paintings and making sculptures for the upcoming Rajya Utsav-Statehood celebrations beginning from November 1 . Under these beautification works, the local artists are hiredContinue Reading
The Andhra Pradesh government has finally cracked the whip on dealers selling spurious seeds. The penal action has, however, been long overdue. The government’s action though belated is highly welcome. Now that it has acted tough, the government should find out the real reasons for the spurt in the spuriousContinue Reading