Shame! Law ministers try to block Airlines’ Gaikwad ban

Shame! Law ministers try to block Airlines’ Gaikwad ban

New Delhi:  Some Politicians and  the government seem to be ganging up to prevent  boorish politicians from being thrown off flights! An MP slippered an airline staffer, refused to deplane, and caused a ruckus. Any private citizen doing such a thing would have been cooling his heels in jail, but not our ‘celebrated’ (or shall […]

Universities should foster plurality and coexistence, not prejudice and hate: President

Universities should foster plurality and coexistence, not prejudice and hate: President

Bombay (Mumbai): President Pranab Mukherjee says there should be no room for intolerance, prejudice and hatred in educational institutes. In fact, educational institutes should act as flag bearers for coexistence of multiple views. Addressing a special convocation of the University of Mumbai to confer Honorary Doctor of Law to famous agriculture scientist M S Swaminathan, (March […]

President warns against the dangers of ‘Majority-ism’

President warns against the dangers of ‘Majority-ism’

Bombay (Mumbai) President Pranab Mukherjee has urged the nation to  guard against “majoritarianism”, saying those in power must take the entire nation along at all times. “Consultation and consensus is the best and often the only way forward,” he said, appreciating the measured tone of  Prime Minister Narendra Modi after the BJP  victories in Uttar Pradesh […]

Trump fires ‘Man busting Wall street’ Preet Bharara

Trump fires ‘Man busting Wall street’ Preet Bharara

A New York federal prosecutor who refused to resign when he and 45 other prosecutors were asked to by the Trump administration says he has been sacked. “I did not resign. Moments ago I was fired,” said Preet Bharara on Twitter. Mr Bharara was first asked to remain in his post by President Donald Trump, […]

More fake notes surface in another Delhi ATM

More fake notes surface in another Delhi ATM

New Delhi, Mar 9 (PTI) In yet another case in a month, an automated teller machine in south Delhi’s Amar colony area dispensed a fake Rs 2,000 currency note with “Children Bank of India” printed on it, police said today. The fake bank note of Rs 2,000 denomination was dispensed from a private bank ATM […]

National Commission for Minorities has virtually no members, last of 7 retires

National Commission for Minorities has virtually no members, last of 7 retires

India’s National Commission for Minorities has virtually no members, last of 7 retired on March 9, 2017 The National Commission for Minorities (NCM) — an organisation established to safeguard the constitutional and legal rights of minorities and which was once headed by Hamid Ansari, now India’s Vice-President — currently has no chairperson and virtually no members. […]

Maneka Gandhi: protect youngsters from their own ‘hormonal outbursts!’

Maneka Gandhi: protect youngsters from their own ‘hormonal outbursts!’

Has Maneka Gandhi really lost it? She’s wanting to impose curfew in College Hostels. She’s taking crazily about things like ‘hormonal outbursts’. She’s insulting Bihar and Biharis! No one in their right mind is going to say “Yes Minister’ to such baloney! (We hope!) New Delhi: Union Minister Maneka Gandhi  advocated hostel curfews for school […]

China consumes 300 Kenyan Donkeys a Day!

China consumes 300 Kenyan Donkeys a Day!

Did you know that donkey meat has been legalized and certified for human consumption in Kenya? But the locals don’t eat donkey meat, its  exported to China! The Chinese love Donkey Meat. The  Meat Control (amendment) Act 2012 documented donkey alongside horse as a food animal in Kenya. While butcheries have not been licensed to […]

Girl killed as human sacrifice in Karnataka

Girl killed as human sacrifice in Karnataka

They paid a 17 year old boy to kidnap a girl for human sacrifice! Police in the south Indian state of Karnataka have arrested three people in connection with the “human sacrifice” of a 10-year-old girl . Police told BBC Hindi that the child was killed on the instructions of a “sorcerer” to “cure” a […]

Check out the Ganga Plains for chucked out Computer Waste: NGT

Check out the Ganga Plains for chucked out Computer Waste: NGT

New Delhi: Is India finally waking up the hazardous e-waste disposal? Some areas in UP are notorious for unscientific and haphazard handling of electronic waste. The National Green Tribunal has woken up to a plea made by a concerned citizen. The National Green Tribunal has directed inspection of Ganga flood plains to probe dumping and […]

How Ghalib influenced a Supreme Court Justice!

How Ghalib influenced a Supreme Court Justice!

New Delhi: Urdu is a beautiful language, says former CJ of India TS Thakur, and should be learned  at an early age.  Former Chief Justice of India T S Thakur once agreed to fast-track the hearing of a case, after he overheard the lawyer in question alluding to one of Ghalib’s couplets during the court […]

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