Even cooks can one day be panchayat head KALAIVANI works as a cook in a school. But this is not her only job. The middleaged woman also doubles up as the Panchayat President of her Keezhkuppam village in the backward Dharmapuri district. Riding a trendy two- wheeler on the bumpy roads, she sets …
extracts from HT THE UTTAR Pradesh Police has arrested the son of a minister from Girdharpur on Thursday night in a triple murder case. The minister’s son, one of the accused in the case, had been absconding since the filing of the case on February 6. SSP A. Satish Ganesh, addressing a press conference …
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Officials suppress file notings from RTI applicants Babus derive their power from the ability to deny even lawful rights to a citizen. It can be a ration card, a passport, a certificate, an I card, an noc, aan approval; a million things that are necessary for survival. They also derive power from the …
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Fanaticsm comes in different colors. SGPC and Badal have no love lost for the Dera chief, who has a mass following. His support helped Congress win quite a few seats in the last election. Akali Dal will not forget its loss. Clashes after attack on dera chief’s convoy Extracts from Tribune Vishal Joshi Tribune News …
VJTI lecturer beaten over Shivaji poem 2 Feb 2008, 0157 hrs IST , TNN MUMBAI: It was meant to be a fun occasion for the teaching and non-teaching staff of the Veermata Jijabai Technological Institute (VJTI). Instead, Friday evening’s get-together turned into a shocking affair, with activists of Shiv Sena’s labour wing thrashing a …
There is an extremely inspiring article in the Indian Express (Sunday Edition) today titled “From Sir With Love” (http://www.indianexpress.com/sunday/story/260332.html) on the inspiration behind the movie, Amole Gupte, who has drawn from instances in his life to write the script of the movie Taare Zameen Par. Aamir Khan has played the role of Gupte’s real life …
Am placing Vir Sangvi’s article in HT of 6th Jan on the results of the different roads taken by India and Pakistan since independence in 1947. The results are there for all to see. THERE’S BEEN a lot about Pakistan in the Indian media over the last 10 days: obituaries of Benazir …
Hindus should ask why people convert The outbreak of communal violence in Orissa has disturbing implications. The state, with a 22 per cent tribal population, has been largely peaceful since the gruesome murder of Graham Staines, a Christian missionary, and his two children in 1999. As in the case of the Staines’s murder, Hindu fundamentalists …
Violence in the name of religion can have no place in this country. India cannot and should not turn into a Nazi Germany, Pakistan or Arabistan. Religious riots must be controlled with utmost severity. Reasons for the riots must be enquired into impartially. It is understood that the root cause was the demand of …
Only 43 women members in 545-member Lok Sabha: Speaker Kolkata, Dec 20: Lok Sabha Speaker Somnath Chatterjee today regretted that the 545-member Lower House in Parliament has the representation of only 43 women members, which constituted only 8.75 per cent of the total strength against the demand for 33 per cent representation for them …
