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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…

May 25, 2013No CommentRead More

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…

May 23, 2013No CommentRead More

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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…

May 25, 2013No CommentRead More

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…

May 24, 2013No CommentRead More

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…

May 23, 2013No CommentRead More

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,…

May 13, 2013No CommentRead More

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…

May 23, 2013No CommentRead More

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…

May 23, 2013No CommentRead More

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…

May 21, 2013No CommentRead More

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…

May 21, 2013No CommentRead More

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…

May 24, 2013No CommentRead More

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…

May 21, 20131 CommentRead More

April Fools in the Northeast

April Fools in the Northeast

The powers that be in the North East better…

A New Easter: Pope Francis washes away Patriarchy

A New Easter: Pope Francis washes away Patriarchy

On Holy Thursday, or ‘Holi-Thursday which coincided with the…

Gandhi within the Iron Lady

Gandhi within the Iron Lady

The attempted suicide trial against Irom Sharmila Chanu raises…

NEWSnet East introduction

NEWSnet East is a news portal that seeks to communicate…

There is no prescribed law for blasphemy in Islam

There is no prescribed law for blasphemy in Islam

In Islam, no one is allowed to snatch a…

Transgenders are citizens too, let’s speak up for them

Transgenders are citizens too, let’s speak up for them

Sudeep Shenoy, in this piece, talks about his first…

Vietnam Business: LGBT friendly and thriving

Vietnam Business: LGBT friendly and thriving

HO CHI MINH CITY, VIETNAM — Right in the…

Gandhi vs Ambedker

Gandhi vs Ambedker

Ambedkar and Gandhi were poles apart. Their ideologies often…

Dateline Bihar: A Positive Salute to Mothers

Dateline Bihar: A Positive Salute to Mothers

Frank Krishner in this edition of Dateline Bihar meets…

Heat, histrionics, and good old Raja Harischandra

Heat, histrionics, and good old Raja Harischandra

It’s beastly and blistering in Biharipolis. May is upon…

The New Gender Studies

The New Gender Studies

Last week, a collection of University teachers of English…

Watch out for Girls Rising!

Watch out for Girls Rising!

On Friday, March 8, New York, the metropolis that…

Theatre treats at Bhubaneshwar

Theatre treats at Bhubaneshwar

BHUBANESWAR: Uttar Purush – one of the oldest theatre…

Why don’t Indian textbooks contain the histories of 8 Indian states?

Why don’t Indian textbooks contain the histories of 8 Indian states?

You say we are a part of the Republic …

Summer fun for Patna Kids

Summer fun for Patna Kids

Robotics, theatre, mulching and mime, these are just a…

South Asian beat rolls out on Thames

South Asian beat rolls out on Thames

Experimental, genre-splicing music that straddles the UK and South…

Drought vs Cricket, the Mumbai IPL dilemma

Drought vs Cricket, the Mumbai IPL dilemma

Bombay, India—  Bombay, or Mumbai is getting thirsty, but…

Women of Substance III:Courage Shapes Destiny

Women of Substance III:Courage Shapes Destiny

Lucknow: He was Deepa’s first love and she trusted…

Women of Substance II- M. Carol AC

Women of Substance II- M. Carol AC

  In our series, ‘Women of Substance’ , NewsNET…

Women of Substance I – Prof. Muniba Sami

Women of Substance I – Prof. Muniba Sami

NEWSNET EAST CELEBRATES WOMEN OF SUBSTANCE Here is a…

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…

May 9, 2013No Comment

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…

May 23, 2013No Comment

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…

April 25, 2013No Comment

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.…

April 8, 2013No Comment

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…

May 9, 2013No Comment

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…

May 10, 2013No Comment

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…

April 8, 2013No Comment

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 –…

May 2, 2013No Comment