Lucknow : Standing together in rows side by side with some folded hands (as per Sunnis) and others swinging loose (for Shias), Shias and Sunni in the city offered the second consecutive joint Eid namaz at Imambara Shah Najaf on Tuesday, sending out a message of communal harmony to theContinue Reading
Chandigarh: The state government Tuesday notified the Haryana Registration of Births and Deaths (Amendment) Rules, 2016. Under this a parent or guardian of a child whose birth had been registered without a name, can inform the Registrar, orally or in written, and have it registered within 12 months from theContinue Reading
The 55-year-old was suffering from mental illness when she was hacked to death by some unidentified people outside her house in Amritsar.Continue Reading
“To whom will the land belong when Northeast India is developed? In what condition will the land be? What will be the fate of the indigenous people when they will have gone through the process that is proudly called National Development?” These were some of the questions that came inContinue Reading
Agartala: Hundreds of Saint Teresa’s adorers took part in a peace rally in Agartala to celebrate her canonization from Mother to Saint that took place in Italy’s Vatican City last Sunday. Mother Teresa, known as the “saint of the gutters” during her life, was made a saint of the RomanContinue Reading
MUMBAI: Can a family court direct a wife to be medically examined to enable the husband to prove his claim of non-consummation of marriage? Certainly, said the Bombay high court as it upheld an order passed this July by the Mumbai family court in a divorce petition filed in 2011Continue Reading
With most states on board, the Union law ministry has cleared a proposal to amend a 147-year-old legal provision that compels Christian couples to wait for at least two years for divorce. The period of separation is one year for other religions. The ministry has decided to reduce the waitingContinue Reading
Twenty two year old Indian Paralympic high jump gold medal winner Mariyappan Thangavelu comes from a very humble background in Tamil Nadu’s Salem district. His single mother Saroja is a vegetable seller who earns just around hundred rupees a day. “We were so happy to watch him on TV, winning gold.Continue Reading
The uneasy relationship between two cadre-based organisations, ruling Communist Party of India (Marxist) and Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), is set to worsen further with the state government’s plan to ban shakhas (Sangh’s physical training and learning sessions) in temples across the state. In Kerala, RSS activities are more or lessContinue Reading
Indore: A man bit a snake into two after it slithered into his mouth while he was sleeping here on Thursday . Vinod Raghuvanshi (28) loves his snooze so much that he didn’t even notice when a snake crawled into his mouth or when he bit its head off. ItContinue Reading
