President greets people on eve of Dussehra
New Delhi: President Pranab Mukherjee on Wednesday greeted the people on the eve of Dussehra. “On the joyous occasion of Dussehra, I have great pleasure in conveying warm greetings and good wishes to all my fellow countrymen in India and abroad,” Mukherjee said in a statement, Zee News reported. DussehraContinue Reading
Dalit home set on fire in Faridabad, 2 kids killed
Faridabad –Two children of a Dalit family were killed and their parents received serious burn injuries after their house was set on fire in Faridabad’s Sonped village in the early hours of Tuesday. According to the police, nine people belonging to the upper-caste Thakur community were responsible for the attack.Continue Reading
President calls for tolerance as intolerance peaks
New Delhi: President Pranab Mukherjee on Monday again appealed for tolerance as Hindu activists attacked a Jammu and Kashmir legislator with ink while the Shiv Sena forced the BCCI to call off talks with the PCB on reviving cricketing ties between India and Pakistan. And in Bengaluru, BJP activists heckledContinue Reading
33,000 homeless died on Delhi streets since 2004
New Delhi: More than 33,000 homeless people have died in the Indian national capital in the past 11 years due to various reasons. The zonal integrated police network under the federal ministry says 33,518 homeless people died in Delhi between January 2004 and October 2015. Dearth of night shelters hasContinue Reading
Rise of fundamentalism in Bangladesh is worrisome
A spate of killings in Bangladesh during the week spreading from September to October has shook the nation breeding insecurity among the foreigners. All these started with the killing of Cesare Tavella, an Italian aid worker in Dhaka on 28th September. Barely five days after the fist killing, another foreigner-Continue Reading
Kashmir Sikh group protests Granth Sahib’s desecration
Srinagar: A Sikh group in Jammu and Kashmir on Saturday burnt effigy of Prime Minister Narendra Modi to protest the alleged desecration of their holy scripture in neighbouring Punjab and sought action against the culprits. Nearly two dozen activists of Sikh group, Gurmat Taksal, J&K, demonstrated here while condemning theContinue Reading
Saving girl child: Himachal folk dance aims for world record
Kullu — Over 13,000 artistes will perform a folk dance in this Himachal Pradesh town this month to highlight the message of saving the girl child, and will also aim to create a world record, an organiser said on Saturday. The Guinness Book of World Record’s office in London hasContinue Reading
More NE ultra outfits may join common platform
Guwahati — The United National Liberation Front of Western South East Asia, a newly formed platform of four militant outfits of the North-east region, is trying to rope in at least nine more outfits of the region into the platform to launch a united struggle against the Government of India.Continue Reading
ABSU to intensify stir for Bodoland
Udalguri — The All Bodo Students’ Union (ABSU) will not sit idle till the Centre concedes to our rightful demand and grants a separate homeland for the Boro people along the northern belt of the Brahmaputra. The above was echoed during the 12-hour national highway blockade programme undertaken by theContinue Reading










