Over 13,500 infant deaths in Maharashtra in 11 months: Health Minister Deepak Sawant
NAGPUR: More than 13,500 children died between April 2017 and February 2018 in Maharashtra due to a variety of health-related reasons, including poor weight,...
Assam gets a stringent law to fight witch-hunting
GUWAHATI: Activists in Assam, fighting for years to create awareness against witch-hunting, are ecstatic as President Ram Nath Kovind has given his assent to...
Lord Jagannath’s Rath Yatra commences in full splendor in Puri
By Sudarshan Maharana
PURI: Bada Danda (Grand Road) on July 14 was brimming with devotees as lakhs, swathed in religious fervor, descended in Puri to...
Odisha: Here, liquor and fish are offered as ‘prasad’
JAGATSINGHPUR: The temple of Goddess Uttershwari, located in a narrow bylane of Paikasahi village, appears like any other temple in the area. The ‘bhog’...
Thief in Kerala returns stolen gold jewelry with an apology letter
Ambalapuzha: A man who stole gold ornaments from a house here returned it two days later with an apology letter. The thief had gained...
Godman, wife held for fraud in Hyderabad
HYDERABAD: Godmen are in the news these days, it seems. And for all the wrong reasons. In one such case, a Godman well-known in...
India invites Donald Trump to be Chief Guest at Republic Day celebrations in 2019
New Delhi: India has invited US President Donald Trump to be the chief guest at the Republic Day celebrations next year, government sources said.
The...
Guinness world record holder permanently handicapped for not cutting nails for 66 years
New York: Shridhar Chillal, an octogenarian from India, finally cut his nails after 66 years but his record of having the world’s longest fingernails...
Study finds 37 per cent of families in Chennai unhappy with reunion of runaway...
Chennai: “Every five minutes, a child arrives alone at a railway station in India,” said R Vidyasagar, research head and former child protection specialist...
Defying convention, two girls get married to each other in Odisha’s Talcher
Dhenkanal: As the Supreme Court is hearing the issue of decriminalisation of gay sex by scrapping Section 377, a same-sex relationship between two...
