Social network users slam Mamata for ‘Shut Up’ comment
byKolkata, June 18 (IANS) Angry netizens Tuesday lashed out at West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee and sternly told her to “shut up and…
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Northeast bands to create awareness on drug abuse
byNew Delhi, June 18 (IANS) To create awareness about drug abuse and raise funds for addicts, seven bands from the northeast have come together…
New Odisha cops to handle crimes against women
byBhubaneswar, June 17 (IANS) Odisha created 537 posts of police sub-inspectors Monday to deal with crimes against women and children in the state, officials…
Mamata would not lend us her ears: Barasat’s villagers
byKolkata, June 17 (IANS) Even as West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee Monday went visiting a village in North 24 Parganas district rocked by…
Champions Trophy 2013 – Dry English pitches lose out on swinging deliveries
byAs India routs Pakistan in its third straight successful outing at the ICC Champions Trophy (CT) 2013, the Indian cricket team evidently proves that…
They innovate to usher in winds of social change
byNew Delhi, June 17 (IANS) A school dropout, Jenpu Rongmei, 29, was as disillusioned and angry as many youngsters in Dimapur, Nagaland, till one…
The marijuana menace: are we asking the wrong questions?
byI have seen most smokers believe that to be a stoner is to be in a different league, to be a class apart from the ordinary people slaving in the rat race. Great pride is taken in wearing the rasta tricolors, listening to psychedelic trance and associating with and quoting free thinking pot heads like Bob Marley.
‘Harassed fathers’ demand gender neutral family law
byBangalore: The Child Rights Initiative for Shared Parenting (CRISP), a Bangalore-based NGO fighting for shared parenting in case of divorce or separation, Sunday demanded reforms…
Butterfly Island in the Caribbean beckons Indians
byPointe-Ã -Pitre (Guadeloupe), June 16 (IANS) From nature lovers to history buffs to those who wish to get away ‘far from the madding crowd’,…
Veganism catches fancy of health-conscious Indians
byNew Delhi, June 16 (IANS) Meenu Nageshwaran, 53, felt she had been handed a life sentence when she was diagnosed with type 2 diabetes…