Archbishop Joseph Pamplany of Tellicherry on March 18 assured the BJP at least one seat from the southern Indian state if the federal government raises the price of rubber to 300 rupees. Predictably, there were gasps and shocked responses from well meaning Christians across the land. Joseph Pamplany, some seem to indicate, is a modern […]
ROME – Archbishop Felix Machado of Vasai has urged Christians and the church to engage in ‘dialogue’ with right-wing political and religious forces in India. Watching what’s happening in his country today, Machado believes the need for real conversation with the Hindu majority is more urgent than ever. Speaking to a newspaper in Rome, Archbishop […]
Raju Bista, a 33-year-old from Manipur’s Kangpoki district, is the new MP from Darjeeling. It took many by surprise when the BJP fielded Raju Bista in Darjeeling. The leaders of the party were smart enough to find a young Gorkha RSS worker from Manipur to represent them in the politically hostile hills district of West […]
Rural India is very thirsty. We are the country with the most people without safe drinking water. The necessity of people is water or free Wi-Fi? Kadipur, a village with population of around 8,000 hit the headlines after it became the first village in the capital to get “free Wi-Fi” in 2017. But, it […]
Goa Chief Minister Manohar Parikar has passed away after a prolonged illness. He was suffering from a pancreatic ailment for a quite long time. Four-time Goa Chief Minister and former Defence Minister Manohar Parikar (63) died at his private residence on Sunday. As news of Mr. Parikar’s death broke President Ram Nath Kovind offered his […]
Weeks after returning to power in Madhya Pradesh, CM Kamal Nath has banned the further payment of monthly pension to those detained during the Emergency under the Maintenance of Internal Security Act (MISA) and Defence of India Rules (DIR). According to the reports, CM Kamal Nath is set to introduce a proposal that will change the […]
New Delhi: The National Register of Citizens, applicable to Assam, which, in its first draft, has left out over 40 lakh people, has become a major challenge, echoing across the country. Bengal chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Wednesday (Augist 1) called the BJP the biggest infiltrator in the country for dictating what people should eat, […]
Patna: Reservations appeared to be the main focus of ‘Save Constitution, Save Country Rally’, held today (June 24) at the historic Gandhi Maidan at Patna. Hundreds of people from different regions of Bihar — men, women, and college students – gathered despite the heavy rain. the crowd was full of energy and kept shouting the […]
Ranchi: In a move that will go a long way in restoring the faith of the people in the judicial process, the murderers of Asgar Ali, who lynched him on the pretext that they suspected that he was transporting cow meat, were convicted by a trial court. A fast-track Ramgarh district court on Wednesday (March […]
Agartala: The BJP has stormed the Left citadel in Tripura. The BJP, a political non-entity in the state till the last Assembly election, has created an upset with its poll ally, the Indigenous People’s Front of Tripura (IPFT), winning 40 out of the 59 Assembly seats. The BJP had got 1.54 per cent vote share […]
Who are these people? They tried to disrupt a legal wedding between two consenting adults in Ghaziabad. Why? Because one was a Muslim, the other a Hindu! BJP and the PM apparently turn a blind eye to the ‘Hate Jihad’ being spread by its minions. But an upright policeman booked the rabble rousers. Now let’s watch […]
Aligarh (UP), Dec 13: Unpleasant scenes marred the swearing-in of newly-elected members of the Aligarh Municipal Corporation after BJP corporators created a ruckus when the lone BSP corporator, Musharraf Husain, insisted on taking the oath in Urdu, says a PTI report. Husain was roughed up by the BJP rowdies. Some district officials intervened and managed […]
