EAST
Forest guard shot amidst elephant rush

Forest guard shot amidst elephant rush

JALPAIGURI, North Bengal: A forest guard fell to a colleague’s bullet during a mission to drive back a herd of elephants in the Buxa Tiger Reserve late on…

UP cops try to flush out illegals in University Hostels

UP cops try to flush out illegals in University Hostels

ALLAHABAD, Uttar Pradesh : Crude bombs, handmade pistols, illegal inmates! Allahabad University hostels have become a bed of ‘criminal activities’, and the Police force is trying to flush…

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NORTH EAST

Tea Garden fined for Power Pilferage

GUWAHATI:  The small tea growers may face more financial trouble, especially if they have been stealing…

Vultures bred in captivity may die when freed

Vultures bred in captivity may die when freed

Borjhar, Kamrup District: Vultures have practically become an almost extinct species thanks to the slow-coach…

Migrant Miners : Gun fodder for Meghalaya Militants

Migrant Miners : Gun fodder for Meghalaya Militants

SHILLONG: Migrant labours who are forced to work in near inhuman conditions in Meghalaya’s pit…

International Nurses’ Day in Imphal, New Delhi

International Nurses’ Day in Imphal, New Delhi

International Nurses Day (IND) is celebrated around the world on 12 May of each year,…

ASIA

Shivanada Khan Mourned

Gay rights advocates in India and around the world are mourning the death of ‘committed, passionate, inspiring, nurturing, visionary’ activist Shivananda Khan, who passed away on Monday (20…

Is Bhutan’s Democracy a Royal Farce ?

Is Bhutan’s Democracy a Royal Farce ?

Is Bhutan’s much vaunted democracy actually a well-oiled PR exercise? Like Gross National Happiness, Bhutan’s democratic avatar may just be an illusion, writes Khunken Dorji According to the government…

Ground Control, I’m locked out of the @#$%* cockpit!

Ground Control, I’m locked out of the @#$%* cockpit!

You’re in mid air. The pilot goes to the loo and returns to find that he can’t enter the cockpit. The door is jammed. Not fiction, just another…

Chinese tourists should be polite, make a good impression

Chinese tourists should be polite, make a good impression

Chinese travellers have been warned to behave themselves while in foreign lands. Talking loudly in public and spitting is bad for the country’s image. Wang Yang, one of…

WORLD NEWS

Boy Scouts of America drop “gay ban”

Boy Scouts of America drop “gay ban”

It’s a landmark decision. In the face of Christian fundamentalist threats to sabotage funding, and other pressures, the Boy Scouts of…

Shivananda Khan: Never Apologise for Who You Are

Shivananda Khan: Never Apologise for Who You Are

The LGBT community in South Asia has lost one of its brightest colours in the Rainbow… the flambouyant, controversial, acerbic, and wittily…

Nepal

Women’s Radio: by and for Nepal’s ‘didis’

Women’s Radio: by and for Nepal’s ‘didis’

Women’s issues rule the air-waves in  FM friendly Nepal. Nepal is the only country in South Asia that can boast of five all-women radio stations. Nepal had…

Bhutan

Is Bhutan’s Democracy a Royal Farce ?

Is Bhutan’s Democracy a Royal Farce ?

Is Bhutan’s much vaunted democracy actually a well-oiled PR exercise? Like Gross National Happiness, Bhutan’s democratic avatar may just be an illusion, writes Khunken Dorji According to the…

Tibet

More self-immolations in Tibet

More self-immolations in Tibet

Two young Tibetan monks set themselves ablaze and died in China’s Sichuan Province. About a hundred Tibetans have so far practiced ‘self-immolation’ in protest against the Chinese…

Burma

Rohingya Muslims fleeing Burma

Rohingya Muslims fleeing Burma

INDONESIAN police have detained 80 Rohingya Muslims from Myanmar (Burma) on a remote island off Sumatra after they got lost attempting to reach Malaysia, an official says.…

Bangladesh

Bangla court hands death sentence to Islamist

Bangla court hands death sentence to Islamist

DHAKA: A Bangladesh war crimes tribunal convicted and sentenced an Islamist party leader to death on Thursday, raising fears of a repeat of clashes between police and…

Pakistan

Women and Kafirs can’t be candidates in Paki Poll

Women and Kafirs can’t be candidates in Paki Poll

Hyderabad, Pakistan: With all the hype about the Pakistan elections, women who form 51 percent of the population, aren’t allowed to be candidates. Nor do non-Muslims have…

Srilanka

Rape of Minors up in Sri Lanka

Rape of Minors up in Sri Lanka

Colombo,Sri Lanka: While incidents of rape and sexual abuse of minors is on the increase in Sri Lanka, police are blaming this on poor parenting skills and…

Kashmir

De-link us from Kashmir, say Gilgit-Balistan people

De-link us from Kashmir, say Gilgit-Balistan people

Gilgit-Baltistan might be the last thing on the minds of Pakistan’s election-contesting parties – none of them have included these far-flung northern areas in their manifestos –…