Wake up India, cricket isn’t the whole world. Stand up and give a resounding cheer for some of our less noticed international heroes! India returned with 368 medals, including 85 gold, at the Special Olympics World Summer Games which was held at Abu Dhabi, UAE from March 14 to 21. The Indian team of 284 […]
Sad to report, India isn’t a happy nation. Maintaining a downward trend, India slipped to the 140th position, seven spots down from last year, in a happiness ranking of 156 countries this year, according to a new report which is unlikely to cheer up the ruling coalition in the run-up to the general elections. India […]
MUMBAI: It’s football! An elated Bengaluru FC skipper Sunil Chhetri termed his team’s maiden Indian Super League victory against FC Goa as a “sweet one” especially after his side had faltered in the summit clash last season against Chennaiyin FC. Courtesy Rahul Bheke’s championship-winning header in the second extra time, Bengaluru defeated FC Goa 1-0 […]
The Mizoram Assembly unanimously passed a bill that seeks to detect foreigners illegally residing in the northeastern state, that shares an over 700-km border with Bangladesh and Burma (Myanmar). Introducing The Mizoram Maintenance of Household Registers Bill, 2019, Chief Minister Zoramthanga said the influx of foreigners into the state through its porous borders has remained […]
Italian children have been told not to turn up to school unless they can prove they have been properly vaccinated. Parents risk being fined up to €500 (more than 39,000 Indian rupees) if they send their unvaccinated children to school. Children under six can be turned away. Under Italy’s ‘Lorenzin law’ – named after the […]
A low water table, and high arsenic and fluoride content in groundwater makes people go thirsty.
Ming-Mang (Assam-Arunachal Border): The entire area looks picturesque with blue hills on the northern horizon sloping towards the plains full with different streams and brooks flowing through paddy fields of villages. But this seemingly beautiful landscape dotted with huts and chang ghars of villages on the inter-State border areas of Assam and Arunachal Pradesh in […]
Pope Francis has lived, and about to live out, several intense months between voyages and Synods. His sixth year was characterized by the scourge of abuse and by suffering from internal attacks; the response is an invitation to turn to the heart of the faith.
Six years ago, this very day, Pope Francis was chosen to head the Catholic Church. The sixth anniversary of the election sees Pope Francis engaged in a year filled with important international journeys, marked at the beginning and the end by two “synodal” events: the meeting for the protection of minors, which took place last […]
काथलिक कलीसिया के परमाध्यक्ष संत पापा फ्राँसिस 13 मार्च को अपने परमाध्यक्षीय काल के 6 साल पूरा करेंगे।
6 साल पहले , आज का दिन, यानि 13 मार्च को Pope फ्रांसिस ने कैथॉलिक कलिसिया का परम धर्माध्यक्ष चुना गया। काथलिक कलीसिया के परमाध्यक्ष संत पापा फ्राँसिस 13 मार्च को अपने परमाध्यक्षीय काल के 6 साल पूरा करेंगे। संत पापा चुने जाने की छटवीं सालगिराह तक संत पापा फ्राँसिस ने कई महत्वपूर्ण अंतरराष्ट्रीय यात्राएँ […]
GUWAHATI; Sorry Chief Minister, we are not covering your press conference! Newspapers in Assam will not carry any government news, photographs, or advertisements for three days, in protest against the apathy of the Assam Government towards newspaper houses The North East Newspaper Society has announced a three-day boycott of all State Government advertisements, any news […]
Three men attacked a 35-year-old woman with acid for resisting their alleged rape attempt in a village of East Champaran district, 190 km north of Patna, on Saturday night. She and her 10-year-old son also suffered burns in the attack. This is the fourth acid attack in East Champaran in the past few months. One […]
No matter how hard they try to brush it under the carpet, the facts are out. Unemployment rates in India are up, and the ghost of PM Modi’s grand demonetization exercise isn’t going away. The unemployment rate in India rose to 7.2 per cent in February 2019, the highest since September 2016, and up from […]
It began on December 13 last year, and still doggedly continues. The Search for miners trapped inside a coal mine in Meghalaya’s East Jaintia Hills district. After the navy left following India-pak tensions after March 2 this year, the operations are now mainly confined to dewatering of the main shaft and other adjoining mines. You […]
