New Delhi: She was a runaway bride, but she won an award of Rs.5 lakh for revolting against the lack of toilet at her in-laws’ place. Sulabh International, an India-based NGO for environmental sanitation, announced the cash award for newly-wed Anita Bai of a Madhya Pradesh tribal village, describing her as a “revolutionary of a [...]
Lucknow: Polling began today on a slow note or the second phase of the Uttar Pradesh Assembly elections for 59 seats in 10 districts that will decide the fate of two state party presidents, 31 MLAs and 24 former ministers. More than 1.92 crore voters are expected to cast their votes to seal the fate [...]
Six people died in Gandhi Hospital in the City on Saturday due to suspension of emergency services by junior doctors. Over 4,000 junior doctors have struck work across the State and are pressing for their demands to be met, including enhancement of stipend. The Cabinet sub-committee which met on Friday night said that the demands [...]
Three people were killed when a speeding car overturned at Mirza Guda near Chevella in Ranga Reddy district on Saturday morning. The accident occurred when the driver lost control of the Ford Ikon he was driving and it overturned. The Chevella police said that two victims were identified as Ramulu and Santosh Kumar, both students [...]
Chief Minister N Kiran Kumar Reddy, who went to Tirupati on a day’s visit, made a surprise stop at the government maternity home. The Chief Minister was accompanied by ministers Galla Aruna Kumari, C Ramachandraiah, Tirupati MLA Chiranjeevi, MP Chintha Mohan. The Chief Minister will review the political situation with district leaders of Kadapa on the three Assembly constituencies.
This is supposedly the century of science and not superstition. Yet, the demons of Salem continue to haunt us. Postnoon investigates In a village near Suryapet, Nalgonda, a man parades around the village with his mother’s head attached to his bicycle. Her crime? She happened to be visiting around the same time her grandson happened [...]
Greg Heakes PEBBLE BEACH: Tiger Woods hopes to make a weekend charge at the leaders, having held steady with a pair of 68s through the first two rounds of the PGA Tour’s Pebble Beach National Pro-Am. Former world number one Woods shot a two-under 68 on the par-70 Monterey Peninsula Country Club Course on Friday, [...]
Ek Main aur Ekk tu may not impress everyone but it’s the freshest offering from Dharma productions yet Movie: Ek Main Aur Ekk Tu Cast: Imran Khan, Kareena Kapoor, Boman Irani, Ratna Pathak Shah, Ram Kapoor Directed by: Shakun Batra Rating: 2 Rahul Kapoor (Imran Khan) is an architect working in Las Vegas. As unhappy [...]
Tamannaah is swamped with so much work these days that she doesn’t have time to consider new projects. In the past, there were rumours that she was approached for Sukumar’s upcoming film which has Mahesh Babu in the lead role. However, she has no dates to accommodate another film since she’s already busy acting in [...]
The Chowmahalla Palace was where all the music lovers of the City headed to on Friday evening, and for the right reasons. The lawns of the palace were filled with an enthusiastic lot waiting for a ‘passport’ to a musical world. Remember Shakti’s performance was more than one could ask for. Beginning with a jugalbandi [...]
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As a conscious citizen watching the unfolding of the soap from Bihar, I am constrained to do some hard talk because all these worthies are playing with my life and my children’s. You may well ask how. Because what is happening is not an internal matter of a party or a Front but dividing the nation on communal lines more acutely than they did in the past. And communal venom has no anti-venom. It is deadly.
Corporal punishment in AP schools
The Public Interest Litigation filed in the Andhra Pradesh (AP) High Court on Saturday challenging the inaction of the State government in preventing ‘corporal punishment’ to children in schools calls for attention. Mohammed Shahbaz Ahmed Khan, a City resident, moved the PIL contending that as per the United Nations’ convention, the State was required to [...]
Instigated or inspired suicide?
The reel-like sequences following the real-life suicide of actress Jiah Khan has invoked a debate on abetment of suicide. What is abetment? Is there a clear definition? Does a letter left behind by the victim like in the case of Geetika Sharma against former Haryana minister Gopal Goyal Kanda amount to abetment or will it [...]
Social networking is the order of the day. The world is a global village. As Marshall McLuhan believed the Internet has made us participants of this worldwide village. It’s surprising how forest communities and young Adivasis have started navigating in the social media to highlight problems such as displacement faced by tribal communities all over India. [...]
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