New Delhi — Dowry, love affairs and impotency were among the reasons for the deaths of over 1,400 farmers in India this year, union Agriculture Minister Radha Mohan Singh said on Friday. According to the National Crime Records Bureau, causes of (farmer) suicides include family problems, illness, drugs…dowry, love affairsContinue Reading
Gandhinagar– Irony has many faces. That a former woman judge, a standardbearer of justice, should fear for her life and that of her family in a state ruled by a woman Chief Minister, is one of them. The former judge, Jyotsna Yagnik, who convicted 32 people – including Maya Kodnani,Continue Reading
Kochi — Syro-Malabar Church head Cardinal Mar George Alencherry on Tuesday urged the government and people’s representatives not to support the move by the Central Government to introduce amendments to the Medical Termination of Pregnancy (MTP) Act, which facilitates abortion. “Feticide cannot be justified under any circumstance. The move to increaseContinue Reading
Mumbai : A popular NGO of the Muslim community today distributed scholarships among others to the Hindu students. Scholarships to the tune of over Rs 50 lakh were given to students from Class VI to graduation level as well as to engineering and medical students from various schools and colleges ofContinue Reading
Thrissur : Pakistani Nobel Laureate Malala Yousafzai has been invited by a group of Kerala school students, who have been motivated by her activities, to join them for Kerala’s harvest festival ‘Onam’ next month. The children from class I to XII and belonging to different schools and of various backgroundsContinue Reading
Amritsar : Amritsar’s pride and the most revered gurudwara of the Sikhs, the 17th Century Golden Temple is losing its sheen. Rapidly increasing vehicular traffic around the complex, mushrooming hotels and industrial pollution are threatening its gold-plated domes and walls, says environment activist Sarabjit Singh Verka. A World Health OrganisationContinue Reading
New Delhi — Security of churches in Delhi has been beefed up and CCTV cameras have been installed at 164 of them in the wake of a spate of attacks, Union minister of state for home Haribhai Parthibhai Chaudhary said on Wednesday in reply to a question in the Rajya Sabha.Continue Reading
Thiruvananthapuram: Transgenders must be provided constitutional rights like all other citizens of India, a host of political leaders and experts advocated here on Monday. “I strongly believe that time has come to stop centuries of oppression, stigma, denial and discrimination against all gender minorities,” Tiruchi Siva, a Rajya Sabha memberContinue Reading
Guwahati — Assam government has taken steps to establish residential girls’ schools in all district headquarters for school going BPL girl children from classes V to XII during the current financial year, an official release said here today. The state government has also undertaken a scheme of constructing working women’sContinue Reading
Guwahati — A 63-year-old woman was stripped naked and beheaded by a mob of nearly 200 people in Bhimajuli village of Assam’s Sonitpur district today. The woman, who had been branded a witch, was dragged out of her home and taken to a nearby stream, where she was stripped andContinue Reading
