“One person’s eye donation benefits two. Eye donation does not only give sight to the blind but also gives light to one’s life,” said Prithvish Nag, Vice Chancellor of Mahatma Gandhi Kashi Vidyapeeth, Varanasi while addressing the participants in the World Sight Day walk organized in Varanasi on 13 OctoberContinue Reading
New Delhi India – one of the fastest growing economies in the world – cannot feed its children. This was highlighted once again in the Global Hunger Index (GHI) report released Tuesday which placed the country 97th in a list of 118. The Global Hunger Index (GHI) is a multidimensionalContinue Reading
KOCHI: Tension prevailed at Nedumbassery on Wednesday after members of the Malankara Orthodox Church and the Jacobite Syrian Church had a conflict over the ownership of the Mar Athanasius Higher secondary School, Nedumbassery. The police said that series of events started when members of the Jacobite faction, led by CatholicosContinue Reading
NEW DELHI: Denying sex to husband for a long time without any justification amounts to mental cruelty and is a ground for divorce, Delhi High Court has said. The verdict came on a petition by a husband seeking divorce, complaining that his wife had subjected him to mental cruelty byContinue Reading
Baba Ramdev, whose claim to fame is yoga, has upset Christians with a picture of the Holy Cross while referring to the East India Company and asking people to boycott foreign goods. Baba Ramdev’s Patanjali brand has been aggressive about its desi identity while pitching MNCs as `thieves’. Patanjali hasContinue Reading
New Delhi: A new report suggests that nearly 15 per cent of Indian adults are in need of active interventions for one or more mental health issues. In spite of an escalating number of mental health patients, the country is facing an acute shortage of psychiatrists, psychologists and psychiatric nurses.Continue Reading
Kozhikode(Kerala): When her brother was leaving no stone unturned to find her and her husband took her for dead and got married again, 36-year-old Sanju Devi was undergoing treatment at the Government Mental Health Centre here. Two Diwalis had passed since she met either of them. Hence the siblings’ reunion hereContinue Reading
October 11 marks the International Day Of Girl Child and to celebrate gender equality, a group of Delhi girls assumed the role of traffic controllers on the eve of the worldwide event. More than 100 girls came out on the roads in four places in Delhi to manage traffic asContinue Reading
New Delhi: Uttar Pradesh recorded the highest number of cases of crime against members of the Schedule Caste community with 8,358 instances in 2015, according to National Crime Records Bureau data. There was an increase of 3.50 per cent from 2014 when 8,075 cases were reported in the largest state.Continue Reading
In a shocking case reported from Waghwade, a village about 12 km from Belagavi city, school girls are forced to carry sticks to protect themselves from molesters suspected to be from the neighboring Markhandey village. Speaking to Bangalore Mirror, Kiran Nippanikar, director of Pyaas Foundation that works on water management,Continue Reading
