Roorkee: With four suspected terrorists being nabbed by the security agencies from Haridwar recently, a Madrassa in Roorkee has banned the use of social media and mobile phones to check extremism from spreading. The Madrassa, Imamdul Islam, has also imposed restrictions on the use of internet in its premises andContinue Reading
Hyderabad: A 17-year-old girl allegedly committed suicide on Monday by setting herself on fire as she was unhappy over lack of toilet at her house in Nalgonda district of Telangana. The incident occurred at Gundala village. The girl, a first-year intermediate student, doused herself with kerosene and set herself onContinue Reading
New Delhi: Over 200 heads of the Christian community, including all archbishops and a few cardinals are set to meet on February 13 in the capital as part of a national consultation to decide the community’s strategy on the efforts made by the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh to reach out toContinue Reading
The bus services, Kolkata-Dhaka-Agartala and Dhaka-Shillong-Guwahati, will link West Bengal to three North Eastern states of India via Bangaldeshi capital DhakaContinue Reading
East Indians attempt to revive their language, cultureContinue Reading
Kochi: The Kerala Catholic Bishop Council (KCBC), the powerful body of the Catholic Church in the state, will hold a series of meetings with various stakeholders in the political and social life of Kerala in the next two weeks to decide its strategy ahead of the Assembly elections likely toContinue Reading
Guwahati: Assam’s Kamrup (metropolitan) district administration has ordered a probe into the alleged punishment of 13 students by a missionary school in Guwahati for speaking their mother tongue Assamese during school hours. The students of Little Flower School, run by the Catholics, were reportedly barred from having their lunch and made to standContinue Reading
The man-elephant conflict has taken worst turn in Indo-Bhutan area of Udalguri district. The Bornadi Wildlife Sanctuary, Khalingduar forest and Nonai Reserve forest has been deforested by cutting of trees by a section of wood cutters and corrupt forest officials. The land which was once forest has turned out toContinue Reading
Thiruvananthapuram: A Kerala court on Thursday sentenced a tobacco magnate to life for killing a security guard with his luxury SUV. The convict, Mohammed Nisham, was found guilty of murder by the Thrissur district additional sessions court on Wednesday. Rejecting the prosecution’s demand for death penalty, the court also imposedContinue Reading
Hyderabad: Hyderabad Central University revoked its previous suspension of four Dalit students on Thursday after some faculty members of the institution quit their administrative positions as protests over the death of a student heightened. The university’s executive council took a decision as protests over death of a research scholar resultedContinue Reading
