Where is Manipur located? It’s a question often thrown at Manipuris by other citizens of India. In a bid to make the northeastern state popular, Wanglen Khundongbam, who has studied in Bangkok and London, chose to go back to his roots and make films. A diploma holder in Digital Filmmaking from SAE Bangkok and a […]
The Union government will convene a special session of parliament to pass the goods and services tax (GST) bill – a constitutional amendment – only after a consensus is achieved among all political parties, including the Congress and the Left that are vociferously opposing the measure, official sources said. The GST bill intends to create […]
Another “Manic Monday” saw a key Indian equity index log its steepest ever closing fall in point-terms, spooked by a crash in Chinese bourses, unmindful of the assertions by policymakers that the turbulence was transient and the country’s economy remained strong. In this turmoil, the Indian rupee also fell to its lowest in two years […]
N ot long ago, women in some backward blocks of Uttar Pradesh would deliver a child in full public view on the hospital floor. The patients and their attendants would be asked to mop the soiled labour room in the absence of cleaners. This shocking scenario is now changing. Babies are now taking birth on […]
The law and order situation is deteriorating in the national capital, Delhi Police crime figures for the first seven months of 2015 indicate. In fact, the number of cases recorded (106,422) breaks a 15-year record for the months of January to July. But police says the data does not indicate “the city is becoming more […]
An organisation that governs and cares for the transgender community in Malaysia has lodged a police complaint on a hate video that sought physical violence against the community. The Malaysian Tamil Thirunangai Organisation lodged the complaint at the Dang Wangi police station in Kuala Lumpur after a group of Indian-Malaysian transgender women complained about the […]
The State Government is safeguarding Western Australia’s $7 billion agrifood industry from destructive animal and plant diseases, pests and weeds. Agriculture and Food Minister Ken Baston said frontline biosecurity defence was vital. “Being able to stop the risk at the WA border not only protects our agricultural industries but provides a competitive market […]
The NSW Government is encouraging students to use National Skills Week as an opportunity to consider an apprenticeship or traineeship as a long-term career and to share in the benefits from the state’s investment in infrastructure. Minister for Regional Development, Skills and Small Business John Barilaro said National Skills Week will inform and inspire […]
In a miraculous surgical feat, an Indian-American surgeon has gifted a pair of new ears to an eight-year-old boy in the US, media reported. Elijah Bell, a second-grade student at the Frazer Elementary in Stark county, Ohio, was born with bilateral atresia microtia — a rare birth defect where the outer ears are undeveloped. But […]
Indian restaurant owners in Britain have called on the government to introduce short-term work visas in order to plug the shortage of curry chefs across the country, a media report said on Sunday. The owners are preparing a submission to Prime Minister David Cameron and cabinet members, which warns that 90 percent of Indian curry […]