Hyderabad – With discrimination and attacks on students from the northeastern states a cause for major concern, universities in the city are all set to act on a central directive to begin courses on the heritage and culture of the seven sister states. Following a directive from the ministry ofContinue Reading
Chandigarh – Haryana Police on Tuesday arrested the main accused in the vandalisation of an under-construction church in a village in Hisar district. “The main accused Anil Godara has been arrested from Hisar today,” Hisar SP Saurabh Singh told PTI over phone. He said that the accused will be producedContinue Reading
Ranaghat – West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Monday evening travelled to Ranaghat and met an elderly nun who was gang-raped at her convent school over the weekend. However, the chief minister’s convoy was blocked for almost an hour by angry crowds, demanding justice for the nun. Ms BanerjeeContinue Reading
Hisar – The Haryana police said on Monday that 14 miscreants have been booked on charges of vandalising an under-construction church in Kaimri village in the state’s Hisar district on Sunday. The Cross in the Williwarsh Church was replaced with an idol of Hanuman. The police booked the accused underContinue Reading
Dimapur – With a population of about 20 lakh, Nagaland is considered the second highest tobacco consuming State with 57 per cent of the populace into the tobacco habit. The statistics is more worrisome as 37 per cent of students are into smoking habit while 41 per cent school childrenContinue Reading
Kokrajhar — Protest wave continued in Assam against BJP leader and Member of Parliament Dr Subramaniam Swami’s remarks mixing religion and politics while visiting Assam. The Kokrajhar district committee of All Assam Minority Students Union (AAMSU) and All Bodoland Territorial Council (BTC) Minority Students Union (ABMSU) protested and burnt effigy of Dr Swami,Continue Reading
Miao — Fifteen Catholic bishops of northeast India representing all seven northeastern India states meeting in Miao diocese in Eastern Arunachal, 12-15 March, have put out a statement condemning the attack and gang rape of religious nuns at Ranaghat in Nadia district West Bengal, 14 March. The joint statement released 14 MarchContinue Reading
Calcutta Archbishop helps lift blockade and pacify protestorsContinue Reading
The illiterates of 21st century will not be those who can’t read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn and re-learnContinue Reading
In November last year, Shyam and his community members were told by the priest that they didn’t have any rights to perform pujaContinue Reading