Meerut: A priest here has threatened to undertake Santhara, the Jain ritual of fasting unto death, if the government does not enforce a ban on meat exports. Prabhu Sagar Maharaj, a Jain priest, said if the government does not acquiesce to his demand by January 17, he would take theContinue Reading
New Delhi: India invented the zero. Now it has come up with the zero-professor university. More than six years after being set up, the Central University of Orissa in Koraput has not a single professor yet and just one associate professor for its 14 departments and 776 students, who includeContinue Reading
Ranchi: Love seems to have weaned a 24-year-old Maoist sub-zonal commander off rebel activities. Nagendra Yadav alias Naro Yadav, who got married six months ago, gave up arms before the police in Jharkhand’s Chatra district on Monday. Unable to bear the pain of separation from his wife, Sabita Devi (20),Continue Reading
Thiruvananthapuram: Zacharias Mar Theophilus, senior suffragan metropolitan of the Malankara Mar Thoma Syrian Church, died on Sunday at a hospital here, church officials said. He was 77. The bishop, who headed the Chengannur-Mavelikera diocese of the church, attended the Christmas service in Oman and reached the Kerala capital on SaturdayContinue Reading
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Chennai: Police have launched a hunt for a godman, who cheated an elderly woman of her gold chain after promising to cure her mentally-ill grandson, in Gummidipoondi on Wednesday. Based on the complaint of Mariammal, 56, who lives with her son Palani and mentally-ill grandson after the demise of herContinue Reading
Ranchi: This Christmas on Friday, St Mary’s Cathedral on Purulia Road in Ranchi, where Cardinal Telesphore P. Toppo recently opened the Holy Door of Mercy, people from all faiths, including Christians, came to celebrate the day. For Ranchi, like the rest of the world, this was an extraordinary Christmas, after PopeContinue Reading
Itanagar: Novelist and screenwriter Raymond Thornton Chandler once said: “There is no bad whiskey. There are only some whiskeys that aren’t as good as others.” People in Arunachal Pradesh appear to have taken his words to heart. Data from the National Sample Survey between July 2011 and June 2012 has revealedContinue Reading
Bhubaneswar — The Justice A.S. Naidu Commission of Inquiry, set up by the Odisha government to probe the 2008 Kandhamal riots, presented its report to the state government on Tuesday. The Kandhamal riots had hogged international headlines for the ethno communal riot between Hindus and Christians in 2008. Secretary ofContinue Reading
