Source: TOI “It’s better for women to perform in dance bars than begging on streets or indulging in unacceptable activities,” the SC said. The Maharashtra assembly had on April 12 unanimously passed the Dance Bar Regulation Bill, which has provisions for stringent actions against the violators.The new bill fixes accountability on […]
Kerala | Written by Sneha Mary Koshy | Updated: April 24, 2016 02:34 by Taboola The Thazhathangadi Juma Masjid in Kottayam is for the first time allowing women, from the local community, to come inside. Kottayam: Highlights Thazhathangadi Juma Masjid popular with male tourists in India and abroad Women […]
TNN | Apr 24, 2016 http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/configspace/ads/AS_Top.html Trichy: The 1,019-year-old Nathrsha Mosque that stands in the heart of the city was cleaned by civic body workers on Saturday. As part of […]
Source. The Daily Beast. “We are not only disgusted and alarmed, but we realize there is a serious danger,” Minnesota attorney Jeff Anderson said during a press conference last week. “Pope Francis has broken a pledge. This priest is a predator who needs to be stopped, and they have chosen not […]
On 23rd April 1910, Hadhrat Hakeem Maulana Noor ud din (r.a.) inaugurated the Noor Mosque in Qadian, and led the Asr prayer. On 14th March 1914, in the very same mosque, Hadhrat Mirza Bashir ud din Mahmood (r.a.) was chosen as the second caliph of the worldwide Ahmadiyya Muslim Community. […]
Joginder Paul Passed Away – 1925 – 2016 Eminent Urdu novelist & short story writer Joginder Paul passed away in India on 23 April 2016. He was famous for his unique style in this genre. He was born 5th September 1925 in Sialkot, emigrated to Nairobi but moved back to […]
New Delhi, Apr 22: Bollywood actor Priyanka Chopra, RBI Governor Raghuram Rajan, tennis star Sania Mirza, Google CEO Sundar Pichai and founders of Flipkart Binny Bansal and Sachin Bansal have been appeared in the TIME list of the ‘100 Most Influential People in the World, released on Thursday. […]
Source: TOI The lawmakers said the US partnership with India is based on a foundation of shared values, including the rule of law, electoral democracy, and religious pluralism and this renewed partnership has found champions in the leadership of both parties, including both President Clinton and President George Bush, and […]
Source: BBC The Indian government has told the Supreme Court that 330 million people are affected by drought in the country. It said that nearly 256 districts across India, home […]
Source: Dawn The Indian government is considering a proposal aimed to simplify the procedures for granting Indian citizenship to minority Hindus from Pakistan, the Times of India reported on Sunday. The proposal also envisages allowing “minority communities of Pakistan staying in India on a Long Term Visa” to buy property, […]
AGRA, INDIA—The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge invoked nostalgia Saturday as they sat and smiled for photos on the same marble bench in front of the Taj Mahal where Prince William’s late mother, Princess Diana, had posed alone for a memorable 1992 photo. Winding down their weeklong royal tour of […]
Source. Independent It was no secret that Mohandas Gandhi had an unusual sex life. He spoke constantly of sex and gave detailed, often provocative, instructions to his followers as to how to they might best observe chastity. And his views were not always popular; “abnormal and unnatural” was how the […]
Source: NDTV HIGHLIGHTS Earlier, he had warned of the ‘harmful effect of Shani (Saturn) on women’ Women were banned from entering Shani Shingnapur temple’s inner sanctum Court overturned ban saying women, men must have equal access to temple The entry of women into a famous temple devoted to Lord Shani or […]
Source: The Times Of India By Paul Gallagher Hundreds of general practitioners (GPs) are being recruited from India to help fill the growing demand-supply gap in general practice and meet a UK government pledge to add 5,000 doctors by 2020. Health Education England, the non-departmental body of the Department of Health […]
Source: Time By Rafiq Maqbool (MUMBAI, India) — The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge paid their respects at one of the sites of the 2008 Mumbai terrorist attacks Sunday as they began a weeklong visit to India, their first royal tour in two years. Prince William and his wife, the former […]
Source. TOI AMRITSAR: Finally, the arduous journey of 13 years of a Pakistani bride of making rounds to ‘babu’s offices’ seeking Indian citizenship came to a pleasant end after she received a much sought after communique from Department of Home Affairs and Justice directing Gurdaspur administration to issue her a […]
As the British royal couple arrive in India on Sunday, they’ll attend a grand ball where cricket legend Sachin Tendulkar and Bollywood actors, including Shah Rukh Khan are among the guests invited. Share on Facebook VIEW 2 PHOTOS zoom TOBY MELVILLE / AP Britain’s Prince William, right and Kate, the […]
Source: BBC Forty-seven police officers have been sentenced to life in prison by a special court in India for killing 10 Sikh pilgrims in 1991 and then lying in an […]
From film stars Amitabh Bachchan and Aishwarya Rai Bachchan to corporates including DLF owner K P Singh and nine members of his family, and the promoters of Apollo Tyres and Indiabulls to Gautam Adani’s elder brother Vinod Adani. http://indianexpress.com/article/india/india-news-india/panama-papers-list-amitabh-bachchan-kp-singh-aishwarya-rai-iqbal-mirchi-adani-brother/ More than 11 million documents from the secret files of Mossack […]
Source: BBC India’s central bank has cut its key interest rate for the first time this year. The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) reduced its repo rate to 6.5% from […]