Shillong, Jan 26 : A 67 year old Lech in the Shillong Raj Bhawan? Can it be true? The Governor of Meghalaya, in the face of vocal allegations of sexual misconduct, resigned on the night of Republic Day. He had spent the day in Arunachal Pradesh rather than in Shillong, probably wary of facing embarrassment. […]
Sydney, Jan 26: Today is Australia Day, but all of a sudden , there are many Australians who want a change in date. But the Australian Prime Minister stands firm. Why do they want a change in date? Because in this post colonial world, some view the day as ‘invasion of the aboriginal tribes of […]
New Delhi: “Justice is not blind and nor do the courts wear blinkers,” Delhi High Court has said while coming down hard on a man for keeping his 94-year-old mother “out of her own home” for 16 years by engaging her in litigation over possession of the house built by her. While imposing costs of […]
More than 50 orphaned children (after their farmer parents committed suicide due to the agrarian distress) have been touring the length and breadth of Maharashtra, appealing to people not to take the ‘drastic step’. The children are inmates of `Adhartirth Ashram’, set up by Trimbakrao Gaikwad at Tupadevi in Trimbakeshwar tehsil of Nashik district. The […]
Thomas Lim, editor of Meghalaya Times, wrote this insightful piece on the occasion of the 45th State Day of Meghalaya: As Meghalaya turns 45, just five more years away from the Golden Jubilee of attaining its statehood, the state is yet to exhibit some state-of-the-art infrastructure or landmark policy and legislation. While the rest of […]
Sheikhpura (Bihar): Even as Bihar CM conducted his ‘grand illusion’ of having a human chain eleven thousand kilometres long in orchestrated ‘support’ of his draconian anti-prohibition law, juvenile courts are having to deal with a new breed of underage bootleggers and hooch makers! Community Service as punishment for kid caught running a hooch still A […]
Bhubaneswar: At least 23 people were killed and over 100 were believed to be injured after Jagdalpur-Bhubaneswar Express derailed in Vizianagaram district of Andhra Pradesh, officials said (Jan 21). The incident took place around 11 PM yesterday when the train was on its way to Bhubaneswar from Jagdalpur. “Seven coaches and the engine of the […]
Patna: The optics was complete. The world’s ‘longest’ human chain was accomplished in Bihar, primarily through the use of government might, such as the education department browbeating colleges and schools into participation, and so on. Of course, Bihar witnesses another ‘spectacle’ in the face of deteriorating governance, but no matter. Bihar today claimed to have […]
Davos, Jan 19 (PTI) The Modi government “owed” demonetisation to the nation and it had to do it to eradicate black money menace and to bring hoarded cash back into the banking system, Union Minister Nirmala Sitharaman said on Thursday. Speaking at a panel decision at WEF on India’s Time to Transform, she said it […]
The immortal Judy Garland’s ‘Over the Rainbow’ and The Wonderful Wizard of Oz took centre stage at Narratives 2017, held in Patna Women’s College at the Department of Communicative English. What better way to start three days of exploring the messages in the media than by having the best guitarist in the world , Eric […]
Bihar is going to witness the longest human chain formation on January 21, expected to be over 11,000 km long in support of the liquor ban. It is going to be the largest human chain ever formed in the world and is said to go down in the Guiness Book of World records. Around 2 […]
Colombo: Sri Lanka once again failed to address the issue of stigmatization and victimisation of LGBT people. Sri Lanka’s cabinet has in fact, rejected a proposal to end discrimination based on sexual orientation, because it could ‘legitimise homosexuality’, a government minister said (Jan 18). Sri Lanka’s 1883 penal code, a legacy of its British colonial […]
