Bhubaneswar: With gross neglect by the state health department towards leprosy health care, people living with the contagious disease in the state are suffering in silence. The department seems to be faltering in screening, treatment and rehabilitation of the patients living with the disease. A...
Agra: A two-tiered 'sleeper bus' on its way from Lucknow to Delhi skidded off the Yamuna Expressway and plunged about 20 feet into a drain in the early hours of Monday, killing 29 people and injuring 18, officials said. The accident took place at 4.30...
New Delhi: India lodged Monday a strong protest with the UN Rights Office over its report on the situation in Jammu and Kashmir and asserted that it is merely a continuation of the earlier ‘false and motivated’ narrative and ignores the core issue of cross-border...
New Delhi: The government Monday introduced eight Bills in the Lok Sabha within an hour. Soon after Question Hour ended, Speaker Om Birla allowed the government to introduce the Bills that were listed for legislative business. The Bills include The DNA Technology (Use and Application)...
Talcher: Notwithstanding the harmful effects of mining in Angul district, a number of coal washery plants have emerged as sources of trouble-making for people residing close to coal processing units of Talcher. Unregulated discharge of toxic waste from the washery units into the plain areas...
Bangalore: Congress’s trusted troubleshooter DK Shivakumar met JD(S) chief HD Deve Gowda at his residence Sunday and tried to sort out differences in the coalition ministry in the wake of resignation of 13 MLAs Saturday. In view of the dramatic turn of events, the state...
Bhubaneswar: Rohit Sharma has done what no other batsmen before could achieve – the feat of scoring five centuries in the singe edition of the World Cup. Rohit now has six centuries in the World Cup, a feat achieved only by the iconic Sachin Tendulkar,...
Bangalore: Thirteen MLAs of ruling JD(S)-Congress alliance in Karnataka have submitted their resignation to the Speaker, putting a question mark on the survival of the 13-month-old government. If the resignations are accepted, the 118-member wobbly ruling coalition will lose majority in the 224-member Assembly as...
Los Angeles: Southern California was hit by its largest earthquake in two decades Friday, a 7.1-magnitude tremor that rattled residents who were already reeling from another strong quake a day earlier. Emergency workers and security forces were being dispatched early Saturday to the epicentre of...
Varanasi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi Saturday said that those criticizing his government's vision of making India a USD 5 trillion economy were ‘professional pessimists’. "There are certain people who are questioning why the government has set such a target, what is the need, why all...
By Aakar Patel Attacks on Bengali Christians and their churches have begun following the BJP's victory in the state. Last...
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By Dilip Cherian The Centre appears keen to give young IPS officers early exposure to the workings and priorities of...
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The demonstration by scores of policemen and officers outside the Delhi Police headquarters on 2 November to protest against some...
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More than three years after ethnic violence erupted in Manipur, there is no let-up in the spiral of killings, displacement,...
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