[KATHMANDU] The Nepal Himalayas maybe facing a water crisis over the next decades. A new study forecasts decreasing stream flows and ice volume in the Nepal Himalayas. Dire consequences are in store for power production, irrigation and food security. And that’s bound to have a huge impact on neighbouring countries as well. A joint study […]
Patna: Villagers from Tikauli Panchayat in Sitamarhi District have elected a dead woman to the post of Panchayat Samiti member. The woman, Mithlesh Devi, has been dead nine long years. Bihar never fails to spring surprises! A woman in Bihar, who died several years ago, was elected as a panchayat samiti member in the recently […]
Transfer Chairman & Enforcement Director of NDMC Anti –Poor, habitual violators of Human Rights Selective use of Court orders to evict vendors of NDMC area Instead of implementing the Street Vendors Act, the Chairperson and the Director NDMC are under the false belief that they can chase away the vendors from NDMC by use of […]
It’s a question of दाल-भात (doll-rice in Anglo-Indianese). Indians are perhaps the world’s largest eaters of pulses, but alas! Shrinking land for crops and drought are making Indians think of leasing agricultural land in Africa and Burma (Myanmar) to meet growing demand of the domestic market. Two consecutive years of drought have led to a […]
New Delhi : Is the Kejriwal government in Delhi really for the common man, or not? The very flavour of Delhi is in the unorganised vending that takes place around Connaught Place, and what do we hear? Another attack on street vendors despite the protection of the Street Vending Act! The National Association of Street […]
They move around in ferocious packs and sometimes scare the living daylights out of kids and older citizens! Towns like Patna with a formidable stray dog population should learn from Bhutan. The Newsnet team trawled around the web to discover a dog magazine called The Bark! And we got our paws on this fascinating piece […]
Patna: The falling standards of education Bihar and the infamous ‘Bachcha Rai’ topper scam were topics that overshadowed what was supposed to be a celebration, as Patna’s AN College celebrated its Diamond Jubilee on Saturday. The occasion coincided with the 129th birth anniversary of Bihari intellectual and freedom fighter Anugrah Narayan Sinha after whom the […]
NEW DELHI – The Government of India has cancelled the foreign funding licence of a non-profit trust run by a high-profile activist known for her vocal criticism of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, saying it misused overseas funds, is how AFP tells the story. But is the Indian Government actually trying to stifle any form of […]
MULTAN, PAKISTAN: It’s rare to find women throwing acid on men, but such cases of vitriolage do take place! A Pakistani woman who apparently threw acid on her boyfriend after he refused to marry her was arrested in a rare case of a woman attacking a man, Pakistani policemen said Thursday (June 16). The policemen […]
The Taliban are using beautiful boy slaves as ‘honey traps’ to mount crippling insider attacks on police in southern Afghanistan, exploiting the common practice of “bacha bazi” or ‘boy play’ to infiltrate security ranks, multiple officials and survivors of such assaults said. The ancient custom is prevalent across Afghanistan, but nowhere does it […]
The United States government is processing an unbelievably low number of Christian refugees despite the on-going genocide at the hands of the Islamic State terror group in Iraq and Syria, the American Centre for Law and Justice reports. The conservative law group cited numbers from the Refugee Processing Centre, noting that while the U.S. has […]
Experience sharing By KATIE By KATIE Since I have been here in South Asia, I have discovered everything is completely different from anything I’ve known before. The language, food, architecture, culture, people, dress and the transportation all are different than in the States. For instance, in the United States, we have a lot of traffic […]
