50 percent of ATM frauds from Jharkhand

Is Jharkhand the cyber-crime capital of India? According to an article in a leading business magazine, this is probably true! Jamtara district in Jharkhand is one of India’s biggest organised cyber crime hubs, with one police station alone accounting for over 50% of ATM, and debit/credit card frauds. Jamtara is one of the biggest centres […]

Assam Swimming Teen Makes India, NE proud

Jorhat boy Bastab Bordoloi shows us how  through sheer hard work and strong determination that success can be achieved. Fifteen year old  Bastab Tapan Bordoloi from Assam’s Jorhat district made the North -east  proud by bagging five gold medals and a silver at the recently concluded South Asian Aquatic Championship (SAAC) in Sri-Lanka. As a […]

Kathmandu is Spiritual Centre of South Asia: Pranab

Kathmandu is Spiritual Centre of South Asia: Pranab

KATHMANDU: Indian President Pranab Mukherjee has described Kathmandu as a spiritual centre for the people of South Asian region. (November 3) “Kathmandu is not only the political capital of Nepal, but also a spiritual centre for the people in our region,” the Indian president said addressing a civic reception organized in his honour by the […]

Iran: Did Koran teacher really abuse 10 Boys?

Iran: Did Koran teacher really abuse 10 Boys?

Is the hostile Western Media blackening the name of a pious Koran teacher? Child sex abuse allegations involving one of Iran’s best-known Koran reciters are causing shock and anger in the country, after several accusers took went public with the claims. The alleged victims and their families told BBC Persian that they had decided to […]

Winter session of Parliament to expedite GST rollout

Winter session of Parliament to expedite GST rollout

The winter session of Parliament will start on November 16. It will be a month-long session that will end on December 16, the cabinet committee on parliamentary affairs. In its legislative push for the upcoming winter session of Parliament, the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) is focusing on laws addressing social and economic issues. Besides three […]

Udaipur-Mumbai link for India’s largest Drug Haul

Udaipur-Mumbai link for India’s largest Drug Haul

Officials say they have discovered one of India’s largest-ever drug hauls concealed in a secret room inside a fizzy drinks factory. More than 20 million  tablets of the banned drug Mandrax, with an estimated street value of Rs 31,500 million, were seized in the western city of Udaipur in October. Subhas Dudhani, a Bollywood producer, […]

Development is not ‘Target practice’

Development is not ‘Target practice’

The government has been undertaking welfare schemes to reduce poverty, hunger and unemployment. But the emphasis has been on the fulfilment of numerical targets, not on the way in which the targets are met. The overemphasis on targets has destroyed the efficacy of policies. The Narendra Modi government has started the Swachh Bharat Abhiyan. In […]

Introduce Criminology course in Universities

Introduce Criminology course in Universities

Sir, Crime has increased manifold in recent years; yet in West Bengal, there seems to no inclination among students to study the nature of crime and ways to deal with it. It can be rightly pointed out  that an analysis of the psychology of the criminal is the key to understanding the nature of the […]

It’s Raining holidays in Bengal

It’s Raining holidays in Bengal

The Bengal  government on Wednesday (November 2) converted a sectional holiday, Chhat puja on November 7, into a general holiday. The additional holiday on Monday  allows state government employees to enjoy a long weekend like they did last week on the occasion of Kali Puja, Diwali and Bhai Phonta. All government offices will remain closed […]

Bihar CM will not ‘allow’ criticism of Prohibition

Bihar CM will not ‘allow’ criticism of Prohibition

Bihar Chief minister Nitish Kumar on Wednesday( November 2)  said he is seeking ‘suggestions’ from the general public on how to make prohibition ‘more acceptable’. He also threatened that he would  ‘not allow anybody to indulge in unnecessary criticism of prohibition without any basis’. He categorically ruled out any dilution of prohibition, but hinted  that […]

Nagaland primary teachers on strike from today

Nagaland primary teachers on strike from today

Having not received salaries for almost six months, around 2,600 aggrieved teachers under the Nagaland Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan Teachers’ Association (NSSATA) on Tuesday launched second phase of stir against the State government at the Directorate of School Education (DoSE) here. The aggrieved teachers, who were on first phase of agitation boycotted classes till yesterday since […]

Encountering Questions

Encountering Questions

The killing of eight prisoners belonging to an outlawed group hours after their escape from the high-security Central Prison in Bhopal during the festive season  has set off a chain reaction of fireworks that is unlikely to die down soon. The eight under-trials, belonging to the Students’ Islamic Movement of India, had been charged with […]