PATNA: World No-Tobacco day has no relevance whatsoever to the nicotine consuming population of Bihar. More than half of its population are tobacco consumers says a report in a local…
Bhutan readies for first stage of elections to its national assembly. The outcome of the vote is expected to be much closer than in 2008 Voters in Bhutan are taking…
AGARTALA, Tripura: Three years ago, Tapas Bin fell in love with Jentukly and got married. Two days ago, his father-in-law cut off his head. The provocation was that Tapas, a…
Don’t go to sleep, yet, RituparnoGhosh. At 7.30 am, there’s a new sun out there, just as there’s a new dawn in Bengali cinema. Surely this is no time to…
Unless the Anglo-Indian community becomes pro-active, it may soon see the loss of the last of its privileges: the nominated MLA and MP seats. The article below, appearing in a…
Bangalore: The Anglo-Indian Community wants a better quality of representation, not handpicked ‘favourites’ of the political dispensation of the day. It is high time the Anglo-Indian community put forward a…
Obviously the I&B Ministry pen-pushers either don’t understand English or they have a poor sense of humor. On Sunday, those of us who subscribe to Comedy Central would have noticed…
Vina Mazumdar, leading light of the Indian women’s movement, architect of the epochal Report of the Committee on the Status of Women in India in post independent India, passed away…
Noted filmmaker Rituparno Ghosh died of a cardiac arrest on Thursday at his south Calcutta residence. He was 49. Winner of 12 national and some international awards, Ghosh was suffering…
SHILLONG: They may be ‘challenged’ but these 15 kids made Meghalaya proud. Meghalaya has won 26 medals at the National Games for the Deaf, 2013, organized by the All India…
A week ago President Barack Obama issued new guidelines for tighter scrutiny of the US drone programme and stricter targeting rules. And on Wednesday, reports say a senior Pakistan Taliban leader and…
Cinema of Resistance starts its Journey in West Bengal with Film Screening in a closed Jute Mill: Citizen Journalist Report At the invitation of Gouripur Mazdoor Bachao Manch, the Kolkata…
Committed, passionate, inspiring, nurturing, visionary. Shivananda Khan was all of these, as he forged a pioneering path across the decades in helping achieve rights and equality for LGBT individuals and…
Colombo, Sri lanka: A monk who set himself ablaze to protest killing of cattle, was cremated on Wednesday. In the meanwhile a member of the opposition wants a ban on…
The universal lack of civic sense and pride of the average Bihari is responsible for considerable economic losses and why most of the Bihar capital is one big smelly garbage…
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