Barely a week after a Dalit girl was beaten up by the police in Etawah, two Dalit women were allegedly harassed by personnel of security forces in separate incidents leading to the death of one of them. A Dalit woman Baansmati was allegedly brutally beaten up by Siddharthanagar police personnel on February 8 at Bangai …
Bhubaneswar: Four companies of central paramilitary forces posted in Orissa\’s Kandhamal district following communal violence last year were withdrawn Wednesday, an official said. They were the last of the central forces posted there to keep the peace. “The deployment date of the CRPF (Central Reserve Police Force) personnel was up to June 30. They have …
By Nitin Gokhale New Delhi: For a couple of hours last week, Mizoram Chief Minister Lalthanhawla created a international flutter by supposedly telling an audience in Singapore that even he faced racism within India, giving us all in the media a subject to debate, discuss and deliberate at length. As it turned out, Lalthanhawla, a veteran …
Manjari Mishra, TNN LUCKNOW: He’s the new villain on the saffron block: Varun Gandhi’s journey from the much-feted ideologue to almost an outcast has been remarkably brief, spanning barely four months in his home state. Suddenly, the saffron camp finds nothing right with its former posterboy of Hindutva. Charges against him range from purely personal to …
NEW DELHI: In what could send the government back to the drawing board to rework the route to economic recovery, rainfall prediction was lowered by the earth sciences ministry putting the foodgrain belt of India — Punjab and Haryana — on notice for a failing monsoon. UPA pundits hoping to post an economic recovery on the basis …
WASHINGTON: India’s older population is projected to quadruple by mid-century, while that of the world is expected to triple, the US Census Bureau has said. In its latest report, the Census Bureau said the world\’s 65-and-older population is projected to increase from 516 million in 2009 to 1.53 billion in 2050. The older population of the …