India has 50 lakh child labourers
byNew Delhi, June 11 (IANS) Fifty lakh children eke out a livelihood in the country, of whom 17.5 lakh are in Uttarakhand, according to…
Opinion
Voter ID to be valid as address proof, says poll panel
byAgartala, June 11 (IANS) The Elector’s Photo Identity Cards (EPIC) will be treated as residential proof of a citizen in India, an Election Commission…
Can Modi modify the Right and BJP?
byA large number of leaders of the right have made serious efforts to re-invent themselves, and also to push their party towards the centre…
For children of a lesser god, it’s about abuse, slavery
byNew Delhi, June 11 (IANS) Being forced to sit like a hen for hours or getting thrashed for being slow at work. Or being…
Guadeloupe’s haunted house: Witness to Indian immigrants’ travails
byPointe-a-Pitre (Guadeloupe): Legend has it that Maison Zevallos, a large colonial mansion once part of one of the biggest sugar estate on Guadeloupe in…
Marijuana cultivation as green profits
byWith Colorado, the American state having legalized marijuana, the opposition that the herbal psychotic substance faces runs across the world has found acceptance in…
Kin of missing Indo-Canadian in Australia double reward
bySydney, June 10 (IANS) The family of an Indo-Canadian man, who went missing in a national park in Australia nearly a month ago, has…
J & K has third-lowest sex ratio in under six age group
bySrinagar: Haryana has the lowest sex ratio in the zero to six age group in the country followed by Punjab and Jammu and Kashmir,…
Environmentalist Erin Brockovich held for drunk boating
byLas Vegas, June 10 (IANS) Erin Brockovich, whose environmental saga was vividly chronicled in a motion picture, was arrested on suspicion of boating while…
Japanese walks 40,000 km in over four years
byMoscow, June 10 (IANS/RIA Novosti) A Japanese man has walked about 40,000 km around the world with a two-wheeled cart and is preparing soon…