The Kumaon Literary Festival (KLF) would be held from October 23-27 at Te Aroha located in Dhanachuli, an enchanting little village in the Himalayas in Uttarakhand, and in Abbotsford in Nainital. This first edition of the literary fest will host authors, poets, cinema and media professionals, political commentators and opinion makers of the country. “KLF […]
Jammu and Kashmir has been through an unusual situation during the last fortnight with cloudbursts occurring with frightening frequency. The freak phenomenon after last year’s unprecedented floods has put the common man on the edge. Six people were killed last week as multiple cloudbursts hit the north Kashmir mountain villages of Kulan, Rizan, Gagangir, Sonamarg […]
Yakub Abdul Razzak Memon, convicted in the March 12, 1993 Mumbai serial blasts, was hanged till death at Maharashtra’s Nagpur Central Jail on Thursday morning, officials said. He was sent to the gallows — on his 54th birthday on Thursday — after several of his court appeals and clemency petitions were rejected by various courts, […]
In Mamata Banerjee’s West Bengal, teachers are steadily turning out to be ‘punching bags’, with many calling the frequent attacks on them a reflection of the growing lawlessness in the state. From primary schools to prestigious colleges and universities, assaults on the educators have been reported from a number of districts with the attackers, in […]
Social worker Anshu Gupta and whistleblower bureaucrat Sanjiv Chaturvedi on Wednesday won the prestigious Ramon Magsaysay awards for “enterprising leadership” and for exposing corruption. The Ramon Magsaysay Award Foundation said Gupta, 45, was being recognized for “his creative vision in transforming the culture of giving in India, his enterprising leadership in treating cloth as a […]
Curtains came down on the legal battle of 1993 Mumbai serial bomb blasts convict Yakub Memon as the Supreme Court on Wednesday dismissed his petition that sought a stay on his execution slated for July 30. “Issuance of death warrant cannot be faulted with,” said the apex court bench headed by Justice Dipak Misra, while […]
As the Supreme Court gave the go-ahead for the hanging of Mumbai bomb blasts convict Yakub Memon, a majority of voices opined that death penalty was not the answer to terrorism, and underlined that he was not the main accused. “You have to differentiate between this person, who has surrendered before the court and the […]
Satpal, Darshan Kumar and Nanak Chand are no ordinary people as they are the ones who saved scores of innocent lives in this Punjab town during a terror attack. While the limelight of the 11-hour long intense gun-battle with terrorists has been hogged by the SWAT and special units of the Punjab Police in Monday’s […]
The last rites of former president A.P.J. Abdul Kalam will take place with full military honours in his hometown Rameswaram in Tamil Nadu on Thursday following his family’s wish, it was announced on Tuesday. The home ministry in an official statement confirmed that Kalam would be accorded a state funeral and the last rites would […]
The three terrorists who unleashed terror in Dinanagar town of Punjab’s Gurdaspur district were heavily armed and moving around in army fatigues, CCTV footage that emerged on Tuesday showed. The CCTV footage shows the three terrorists moving freely on foot on a road in Dinanagar town at 4.55 a.m. on Monday, minutes before they began […]