New Delhi relaxed withdrawal limits at banks for marrying couples and farmers yesterday (November 17) amid growing frustration over a cash crisis triggered by Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s decision to demonetise all high-value notes. The rest of India will have to survive on Rs 2,000 withdrawal. However BBC reports indicate that most rural banks are […]
Sir, Why had the mother gone to the trouble of bringing the child into the world if the most exciting moment in her child’s life was having been made lame? Children are the future citizens of our country. The future of the country depends on them. If the children do not develop in a proper […]
In India, a bull is often defined as a male cow. It is one of the rarest of the rare instances in which the male of a species derives its identity from the female ! For most other species, the gender identity usually goes the other way. So, don’t you think that the cow should […]
Darjeeling: A senior railway official has said the financial health of the Darjeeling Himalayan Railway is improving. It was expected to earn twice as much this fiscal compared to the last financial year and might break even next year. But this iconic railway, may lose its heritage status! Along with an increase in the passenger […]
The Special Courts in Bihar took six long years to punish a corrupt man, but it has finally happened! The first conviction in a disproportionate assets case under the provisions of Bihar Special Courts Act, 2009, came on Monday(Nov 14), a little over six years after the Act came into force in the state. A […]
QUETTA, Pakistan – All liberal forms of Islam are being attacked by the Salafists. An explosion claimed by militant group Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) ripped through a Sufi Muslim shrine in southwestern Pakistan on Saturday (Nov 12), killing at least 52 people and wounding scores, officials said. The blast at the Shah […]
Thiruvananthapuram/Kochi: Mallus rock in more ways than one! From Kerala we have some news of a brilliant scheme by a young Malayali . Malayalis always tend to mark their presence. On November 9, when everyone was agonizing over the long queues at banks, while going through the demonetizing phase, a Malayali youth hailing from Ernakulam […]
Kochi (Kerala): Come, take a look at a mega event in God’s own Country … Creative works of 97 artists, cutting across disciplines, forms and styles will feature in the third edition of Kochi-Muziris Biennale, which, the organisers claim, is the largest celebration of contemporary art in South Asia. The art extravaganza, titled ‘Forming in […]
Rock group Green Day say they “fully support” the protests against US president elect Donald Trump. “I don’t think any of us were prepared for Donald Trump to be president,” singer Billie Joe Armstrong told the BBC. “I think there’s going to come a time when the protests get larger and larger – and that […]
It was with stunned silence that many music lovers across the world received the news that Leonard Cohen, that great singer-songwriter who gave us the iconic “Hallelujah” and “Suzanne” and countless other reasons to believe was no more. (November 11) Musicians, authors and politicians have paid tribute to singer Leonard Cohen following his death at […]
NEW DELHI: A fire at a suspected illegal garment factory near the Indian capital killed 13 people and injured several others early Friday morning (11 November). The workers were sleeping in the cramped leather factory, which was in a residential building on the edge of New Delhi, when the blaze broke out, likely caused by […]
Sir, The good old boys of St. Xavier’s Collegiate School in Calcutta recounted the good old days in memory of one of the best loved teachers. Anecdotes about Father Camille Bouche SJ were shared at the school assembly on Thursday, bringing alive the man generations of Xaverians have loved and revered. Alumnorum Societas (Alsoc), the […]
