New Delhi — Greenpeace is determined to keep operating in India even after the central government froze its bank accounts, leaving it with no funds to pay wages to hundreds of staff, its country head said on Thursday. The home ministry blocked foreign funding to the local branch of theContinue Reading
Hyderabad — Heat wave claimed 12 lives in Telangana on Thursday, taking the toll to 30 in two days, unofficial sources said. The daily wage labourers, petty traders and people living on streets are the worst-hit, reported The Times of India. Heat wave conditions have been sweeping the state theContinue Reading
Mumbai — The state government Wednesday decided to make several amendments to the Factories Act, 1948, clearing the decks for women employees to work in night shifts. Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis announced the cabinet decision at a media interaction. “While there were objections raised as to why women were beingContinue Reading
The ban has hit farmers and beef traders hardContinue Reading
Like many Indian parents, when Padma Iyer wanted to find a spouse for her son Harish Iyer, she decided to place an advert in the matrimonial sections of a few national newspapers. But three of the four publications the Iyers approached, refused to run the advertisement, according to Iyer. TheContinue Reading
The two-day-old baby was grabbed by his neckContinue Reading
Mumbai — The Maximum City has shown the maximum support to Saba Tarikh Ahmed, a 15-year-old from Pakistan’s Karachi district, who is suffering from a rare, genetic disorder called Wilson’s disease. The disease occurs as a result of accumulation of copper in the body, slowly resulting in degeneration of organsContinue Reading
Bhopal — Madhya Pradesh government on Tuesday announced an award of Rs one lakh in the name of Aruna Shanbaug, the nurse who was raped and gagged with a dog chain that left her in a coma for 42 years. She died on Monday at the KEM Hospital in Mumbai.Continue Reading
Kochi — The Ernakulam Archdiocese of the Syro-Malabar Church which had strongly stood for the closure of bars in the state has sought permission from the Excise Department for increasing production of wine from 1,250 litres to 5,000 litres on a yearly basis. A request in this regard was filedContinue Reading
Several of them came together on May 19 in Guwahati to find a common groundContinue Reading
