Women from Christian dominated rural areas are tricked and ‘sold’ to work in New Delhi, according to this UCA News Report: Muskan* dreamed of a happy married life with a man of her choice. At the age of 19, when married, she saw her dreams come true, only to realize within days that she was […]
Guwahati: The Northeastern border state of Assam is jittery about ISIS (so-called Islamic State or Daesh) related recruitment. Assam government said it has instructed all superintendents of police to remain alert and tighten security at all sensitive places in view of the possibility of ISIS recruiting youths from the state (March 6). Replying to a […]
A ‘new and dangerous’ strain of infection has emerged to threaten our food security. Read on: Standing wheat of about 400 hectare were being cut and burnt in two blocks of Nadia district after a suspected fungal infection affected the crop, a senior district agriculture official said on Sunday (Mar 5). The infected plants in […]
Gujarat: He was a Dalit, and he had the guts to contest and win the recent village panchayat elections, becoming a sarpanch in upper castes-dominated Varsada village, so they brutally murdered him. A 25-year-old Jaysukh Madhad, a Dalit Sarpanch in a village in Amreli district of Gujarat, was hacked to death by people of other […]
The issues of transgender welfare was raised in the budget session of the Bihar legislature. Thanks to the initiatives of the Bihar government, some 18 transgender students are appearing for Matric and higher secondary level exams this year, and several efforts are being made for the mainstreaming of transgendered people in Bihar, RJD MLA Ejya […]
Patna, (Feb 24): Rabri Devi has done it again! Her remark that her son should become Chief Minister has set tongues a-wagging in the political circles in the State. Her hubby, the inimitable Lalu Prasad, stepped in to stem wild speculations of a ‘split’. This ain’t the first time that Rabri has taken a swipe […]
Patna: The Bihar Assembly, in 2007 passed a bill that would allow it to fix its own Sugarcane Price in place of the Central Government one, the President has said that’s not possible, yet. President Pranab Mukherjee has directed to return the Bihar Sugarcane (Regulation of supply and purchase Amendment) Bill, 2007 to state Assembly […]
Patna (Bihar): Women farmers and their supporters from various states in Eastern India came together at Navjyoti Niketan, Patna to voice their concerns, share their stories, and call attention to the fact that women’s contribution in farming is largely ignored. They came together under the banner of Mahila Kisan Adhikar Manch (MAKAAM). The issues being […]
Aizawl (Mizoram): It’s a tragic story. The Bru tribes were forced to flee their homes and become refugees in Tripura. Even after decades, they are still afraid to go back to live with the Mizos. They want their own enclave, a Bru Reservation! Mizoram Bru Displaced People’s Forum (MBDPF), the apex body of Bru refugees […]
Bombay (Mumbai): A statue of Our Lady (Mother of Jesus) was allegedly desecrated by unknown persons in suburban Kurla in the wee hours today, following which two unidentified persons were booked, police said. The grotto of Mother Mary installed on a roadside in Kurla was desecrated at around 4 AM, they said. The incident had […]
Making an Indo-Bangla film is certainly ‘no bed of roses’. This film story moves from ‘Bureaucratic Bungling’ to ‘Bureaucratic Banning’ in Bangladesh Bangladeshi filmmaker Mostofa Sarwar Farooki’s “No Bed of Roses”, starring and co-produced by Indian actor Irrfan Khan, has been ‘effectively banned’ in Bangladesh. Speculation has been rife in the Bangladeshi and Indian media that […]
Munshi Premchand is considered ‘the King of Hindi Novelists’, and the first writer to feature realism in Hindi-Urdu literature. Celebrated author Munshi Premchand changed the course of literature in Hindi and Urdu with his “modern perspective” and simple expressions, according to his grandson Alok Rai. Rai, who was speaking in a session titled, “Hindustani Zindagi […]
