New Delhi: It took Ravi Kalra, now 44, almost 20 years to finally set up an NGO and do what he always wanted to do – make Delhi a better place to live in. Six years later he is at peace, despite his family deserting him, vexed by his devotion [...]

New Delhi: Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) leader Arvind Kejriwal Saturday began an indefinite hunger strike against increased power and water bills in the national capital. The BJP too held a separate protest on the issue. Kejriwal began his fast in the morning at a house near the sub-divisional magistrate’s office in [...]

Chandigarh: In Haryana’s hinterland, not just lawmakers and law-enforcing agencies deal with law. Diktats, many of them strange ones, keep coming from all quarters. The recent ones have been about stopping girls from wearing skirts to schools and prohibiting them from dancing and even banning chowmein. The diktats come from extra-constitutional [...]

Los Angeles: Actress-singer Miley Cyrus has organised a rally to save horses. She has taken to micro-blogging site Twitter for the cause. Cyrus voiced her support for a petition to ban all horse-drawn carriages in New York. She tweeted a link to petition online, at the suggestion of her mother, who [...]

On 19th March, 2013, a poetry night was organized by the Caste-Away, a part of AIESEC, world’s largest youth-run non-profit organization in Hauz Khas village, Delhi. The initiative was based on the theme of Casteism and other forms of exclusion in our society at hand, both in rural and urban [...]

Agra (IANS) Social activists and environmentalists gathered here Friday to deliberate on the ways to save dwindling sources of freshwater on the occasion of World Water Day. “Neither the centre nor the states have any long-term policy to address the explosive issue that concerns just about everyone in the country. Without [...]

Agra (IANS) The “save Yamuna” movement launched to secure the release of water from Hathinikundi in Haryana into the river appears to have split: One group has accepted the agreement arrived at midnight Wednesday while the other says the protest will continue. The group that has refused to accept the agreement [...]

Dehra Dun : The worst fears of wild life lovers in this small hill state have only turned out to be true. Information given in reply to a question under the Right to Information by the Chief Conservator of Forests, Uttarakhand, as many as 55 tigers and 564 leopards were [...]

Shimla: Failure of other pillars of Indian constitution in providing good governance in the democratic society has pushed the judiciary to judicial activism,  a role not meant for it under the constitution, is how outgoing Chief Justice Kurian Joseph defending the courts increasingly pursing public interest litigations. On being elevated to [...]

Washington (IANS) A US Sikh rights group has met State Department officials in support of its petition to the Obama administration to recognise the violence against Sikhs in India in November 1984 as “genocide”. “Contrary to what is commonly portrayed, November 1984 was not the result of a spontaneous reaction of [...]