By Vincent D’ Souza Tiruchi: Vote against the BJP, and its ally, the AIADMK. This in essence is what was conveyed to the 400-plus gathering of Catholic priests, nuns and lay people who attended a one-day meet held at the Charismatic Centre in Tiruchi town in Tamil Nadu on MarchContinue Reading
Aizawl: BJP leaders are not communal or religious bigots, party”s Mizoram unit president Vanlalhmuaka said on March 20, asserting that it was “safe” for Christians to join it. Addressing a party workers” meet in bypoll-bound Serchhip, he said the BJP”s central leadership encouraged every member to freely follow any cultureContinue Reading
By Damini Nath New Delhi: Migrant workers have staged a protest at Jantar Mantar in New Delhi one year after a complete of lockdown in India to check the spread of the coronavirus pandemic. The March 18 protest saw workers from construction sites, industrial clusters, markets and homes in theContinue Reading
Dengnanggre: One villager in Meghalaya’s North Garo Hills (NGH) district has hacked his neighbor to death after suspecting him of practicing witchcraft. The incident took place in Dengnanggre village near Achotchongre under Bajengdoba PS on March 19. According to police reports, the suspect, identified as Henathson A Sangma, accused theContinue Reading
Kolkatta: A homemaker in the city said she often has to switch to the more difficult earthen oven because she doesn’t have enough money at home for an LPG cylinder. Pompa Mondal said she books a cylinder when the family has money but the double blow of the Covid pandemicContinue Reading
Financial woes brought by last year’s coronavirus pandemic have pushed about 32 million Indians out of the middle class, undoing years of economic gains, a report showed on Thursday, while job losses pushed millions into poverty. The number of Indians in the middle class, or those earning between $10 andContinue Reading
New Delhi: A group of hawkers, sex workers, domestic workers, rescued bonded laborers and other unorganized workers gathered in New Delhi to demand the government fulfill the promises made during the pandemic. The March 18 demonstration at Jantar Mantar took place a week before the first anniversary of the lockdownContinue Reading
Krishnadas Rajagopal New Delhi: The Supreme Court has forbade judges from making gender stereotypical comments like “’good women are sexually chaste,” women who drink and smoke ‘ask’ for sexual advances or presume that a sexually active woman consented to rape while hearing cases of sexual offence. A Bench of JusticesContinue Reading
New Delhi: The Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) has denied permission to a Sikh jattha (group) of around 600 pilgrims to visit Pakistan for the 100th anniversary of the Saka Nankana Sahib. The group was expected to visit five gurudwaras in Pakistan from February 18 to 21. The Shiromani GurudwaraContinue Reading
Experts have expressed serious concerns over the downgrading of India’s status from ‘the world’s largest democracy to an ‘electoral autocracy’ and from a “Free Country” to a “Partly Free Country” in the international reports. They expressed their views in a group discussion held by Jamaat-e-Islami Hind (JIH) here on theContinue Reading
