Modi praises village pradhan for building toilet
New Delhi, Aug 28 (IANS) Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday praised a village pradhan from Karnataka for building a toilet in the house of a girl who staged a protest demanding a toilet. Modi…
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Indo-Pakistan Peace Restaurant to showcase food in Paris
By Jaideep Sarin Attari (Punjab), Aug 28 (IANS) A popular restaurant, which sells Indian and Pakistani cuisine and the idea of peace between the not-so-friendly neighbours right at the international border between both countries, will…
Journalism student crowned Miss Togo 2016
Loma (Togo), Aug 28 (IANS) A second-year journalism student won the coveted Miss Togo 2016 title, the 22nd edition of the West African nation’s beauty contest. The 20-year-old D’Almeida Mawubedzro Kokoe Balbina came first among…
Daughters made us proud at Rio, says Modi
New Delhi, Aug 28 (IANS) Praising the efforts of Indian athletes at the Rio Olympics, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday said the country’s “daughters” made the country proud. “The two medals we got were…
Feeling proud over Mother Teresa’s canonisation: Modi
New Delhi, Aug 28 (IANS) Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday paid tributes to Mother Teresa, saying every Indian must feel proud as she has officially been recognised as a saint. Modi said that despite…
Velankanni gearing up to receive lakhs of devotees
Chennai, Aug 28 (IANS) A total of around 800,000 devotees are expected to render their prayers at the basilica Our Lady of Health located in Velankanni — a small town in Nagapattinam district in Tamil…
Man with brain tumour writing ‘Dying with Swag’ blog
London, Aug 28 (IANS) A young man from Germany dying from a malignant brain tumour has started blogging about his day-to-day experiences. Dmitrij Panov, from Marburg in Germany, has for the past five months blogged…
AAP liquor policy hypocritical, says Swaraj Abhiyan
New Delhi, Aug 27 (IANS) The Swaraj Abhiyan on Saturday slammed the Delhi government for its “hypocrisy” on the liquor policy and granting licences in large numbers to drinking establishments. Addressing a press conference here,…
Father who abandoned two girls, also drowned 2-year-old son
New Delhi, Aug 27 (IANS) In a tale of extreme parental cruelty, an alcoholic father flung to death his two-year-old ailing son into a Delhi canal, just three days after he abandoned his two starving…
Man carrying wife’s body: Odisha says it won’t recur
Bhubaneswar, Aug 27 (IANS) Amid nationwide outrage over a tribal man walking 10 km with his wife’s body on his shoulders in Odisha’s Kalahandi district, the state government on Saturday said such incidents would not…
More men does not mean higher rates of crime and broken homes
New York, Aug 27 (IANS) If you thought places with more men than women are likely to experience higher rates of family and social instability, think again! New research has found that surpluses of men…
Elderly Canadian couple forced to separate after 62 years
Ottawa, Aug 27 (IANS) A Canadian couple, after spending 62 years of their lives together, are now being forced to separate because they cannot get into the same care home. Wolf Gottschalk, 83, and his…
Syrian refugee living in Greece to compete at Rio Paralympics
Athens, Aug 27 (IANS) A Syrian refugee who is living, working and training in Greece will be one of the two refugees who will compete at the Rio Paralympics in September, forming the Independent Paralympic…
Two abandoned girls rescued from Delhi house
New Delhi, Aug 26 (IANS) An eight-year-old girl and her three-year-old sister were rescued from a house where they were locked for four days without food and water, police said on Friday. Deputy Commissioner of…
Maneka launches online complaint system for child sexual abuse
New Delhi, Aug 26 (IANS) An online complaint box for reporting child sexual abuse, Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO), e-Box, was launched here on Friday by Minister for Women and Child Development Maneka…
Goa to conduct survey of transgender community: Official
Panaji, Aug 26 (IANS) The Goa government will conduct a comprehensive survey of the state’s transgender population over the next three months, a senior official of the state Planning and Statistics Department said on Friday….
South DMC to count its stray dogs for birth control
New Delhi, Aug 26 (IANS) A dog count will be conducted in South Delhi areas in the early morning hours starting from August 27 so as to conduct their effective birth control, the South Delhi…
Women activists hail Bombay HC verdict on Haji Ali
New Delhi, Aug 26 (IANS) A ‘welcome move’, echoed women activists across the board about the Bombay High Court’s verdict allowing women to enter the Haji Ali Dargah in Mumbai. The verdict came on Friday…
Villagers carry body through pond, MP officer says ‘scene created’
Jabalpur, Aug 26 (IANS) Some people in a village here on Friday carried a woman’s body for cremation through chest-deep water in a pond. They said they were forced to do so as upper caste…
Bombay HC permits women inside Haji Ali Dargah
By Quaid Najmi Mumbai, Aug 26 (IANS) In a historic verdict demolishing another bastion of gender discrimination in the country, the Bombay High Court on Friday permitted the entry of women right up to the…