Panaji: Days after at least 35 families belonging to a community in Goa mysteriously left their village to live in forests adjoining Karnataka border, the local Church has appealed them to return home, even as police was nothing suspicious about their decision to relocate. Several families from Xeldem villages inContinue Reading
Christian-dominated Mizoram – 87 percent of the population is Christian – has the most inter-caste marriages in India, a nation where 95 percent of Indians marry within their caste, according to a 2016 report from the National Council of Applied Economic Research (NCAER), a New Delhi-based think-tank. Meghalaya and SikkimContinue Reading
Panaji: Goa Lokayukta has decided to refer to the state Governor the names of all the legislators and public functionaries who fail to declare their assets and liabilities for the financial years between 2012 and 2016. Several MLAs had failed to file their statement of assets and liabilities before theContinue Reading
Sensing an opportunity in Karnataka’s recent ban on plastics, the state’s prisons department has started training inmates in making paper and cloth bags that are now in great demand. HN Sathyanarayana Rao, Director General of Police (Prisons), told Economic Times that several companies have approached the department for the paperContinue Reading
Ghaziabad: Police acted as the mediator as members of a tribal community ended a wedding engagement at a police station here — by ceremonially cutting wood with a chopper. Police officer Anju Teotia said her force oversaw the traditional tribal method of ending an engagement and thus helped end aContinue Reading
Varanasi: A man who converted from Hinduism to Christianity was beaten and left for dead by a group of Hindu radicals angered that he and his family refused to stop worshipping Jesus. According to Morning Star News, Hindu extremists in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh, Varanasi kidnapped 30-year-old JoginderContinue Reading
They appealed to people to help in the great cause of peace, development and well being of all communitiesContinue Reading
St. Anthony’s High School is one of the oldest institutions in the cityContinue Reading
Raipur : An independent fact-finding team has found “rampant human rights violations” in south Chhattisgarh’s Bastar zone and said the “deteriorating” law and order situation in the strife-torn area is a cause for concern. The four-member group, comprising former judge of Bombay high court justice H Suresh, former Border SecurityContinue Reading
New Delhi: More than 21 lakh people are living with HIV in India, though there has been a “steady decline” in new infections since 2007, Rajya Sabha was informed Tuesday. “As per the HIV estimation 2015 report, an estimated 21.17 lakh people are living with HIV. “The adult HIV prevalence atContinue Reading
