In 1953, a 16-year old Muslim actress was delivering a dialogue on stage, when she was shot at. the bullet missed her and hit the stage curtains. The man who tried to shoot Nilambur Ayisha a religious conservative who wanted to drive home a point: Muslim women shouldn’t be actors. “It missed me and hit […]
A new species of dragonfly has been named after two women who are agents of change in the Northeast! It’s great news as we move towards World Environment day. A North-eastern news site has reported that a new species of dragonfly, the ‘Brahmaputra Picktail’ – has been christened ‘Platygomphus Benritarum’. Shantanu Joshi and Anuja Mittal […]
A major concern among non- heterosexual persons and communities is the insensitivity of the press , when it comes to reporting on LGBTQIA issues. As far as mainstream press reporting in India is concerned, in most cases, journalists are not even aware that that are being insensitive. Queer Chennai Chronicles and The News Minute have […]
Sir, Being a student of journalism, I always want to know what are the things happening in the country and around the world. Many weird or new things happen on a daily basis, all the new things seem weird at a time to people once it becomes trend and people start following, it becomes normal. […]
The Federation of Konkani Catholic Associations (FKCA) has announced that Jesuit Priest and Human Rights and Peace activist and writer Father Cedric Prakash is to be honoured with the Lifetime Achievement Award. Social activists and human rights campaigners are very familiar with the name of Cedric Prakash. He is a Jesuit working in Gujarat. He […]
The data from LaLiga’s [The popular Spanish Soccer League] digital presence has revealed that the number of users in India engaging with LaLiga content across Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and YouTube has grown 3X within the last one year. An event at Guwahati. celebrating five years of LaLiga in India with Jose Antonio Cachaza, Managing Director, […]
Following a recent ruckus on the JNU campus involving the molestation of a female student, a case of suspected ragging comes to light. A first-year undergraduate student of Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) has accused two senior students of harassment and inflicting “exceptional psychological duress”. The student has written a complaint to JNU administration against the […]
Green Security Games (GSGs) have been successfully used in the protection of fisheries, forests, and wildlife. In the past decade, game-theoretic applications have been successfully deployed in the real world, where there aren’t large budgets or plan outlays for security services. . Inspired by the success, researchers have begun focusing on applying game theory to […]
“The biggest issue we are facing is that we are quickly losing India’s fundamental character,” the Metropolitan of the Malankara Orthodox Syrian Church, Bishop Yuhanon Mar Meletius of the Thrissur diocese, has stated in an interview that has been picked up by several Indian newspapers. Bishop Yuhanon, also addressed as Metropolitan, has given the interview […]
Fans of all ages across India are stunned. Playback singer Krishnakumar Kunnath, better known as KK, died barely an hour after he had finished a command performance at South Calcutta’s Nazrul Mancha. He was 53. He suffered a massive heart attack and was immediately rushed to Calcutta Medical Research Institute at 10.30 pm. But unfortunately he’d […]
The dust has barely settled on one Masjid-Mandir [MM] dispute, and another one ‘Gyanvapi Mosque- Kashi Vishwanath ‘ is hogging the nosy TV spaces and polarizing the discourse on social media. The Places of Worship (Special Provisions) Act, 1991, says that a mosque, temple, church or any place of public worship in existence on August […]
As a cancer surgeon, I would focus on things pertaining to my field wherein Meghalaya can grow by a change in behaviour. Meghalaya, in its golden jubilee year, has the dubious distinction of topping the country in the proportion of cancers caused by tobacco, with 70.4% of cancers in men and 46.5% of cancers in […]
