Last year, in eastern Bihar’s Phulwari Sharif, 24-year-old Masahun Khatun was five months pregnant when she fell in the courtyard of her house. For the next three weeks, Masahun and her husband shuttled between government hospitals and private practitioners, spending over Rs.40,000 on healthcare, as they tried to get an abortion. Masahun did...
Rahul Gandhi’s photos adorn the shoulders of mainstream newspapers but he is in Aspen, Colorado, apparently to attend a conference. BJP spokesman Sambit Patra made a valid point: Rahul has never attended such intellectually challenging seminars in India. Why such enthusiasm for an event at Aspen? ...
The Delhi government may "consider lowering" the legal age for drinking, a minister in the Arvind Kejriwal cabinet said on Wednesday. ...
The Joint Committee on Inner Line Permit System in Manipur which often claims to represent the voice of the native people of the northeastern state is a misrepresentation of the factual situation in the state....
If you are young and at times experience sudden weakness, perspiration, shortness of breath and the need to sit down - with your heart beat pulsating like a new racy rap song from Yo Yo Honey Singh - do not just disregard it as a “panic attackâ€....
For Tufail Ahmad and Riaz Ansari, residents of Bihar's Seemanchal region, Chief Minister Nitish Kumar is their leader, not firebrand Muslim leader Asaduddin Owaisi. ...
The government led by Prime Minister Narendra Modi is suppressing people's voice, according to a senior executive of a human rights body....
The hills of Manipur continue to simmer with tension ever since the state assembly, in a specially convened session on August 31, passed three controversial bills ostensibly to protect the rights of the indigenous people in the state....
With hundreds of families across the country preparing Eid-ul-Azha in the last week of September, the ban on sale of meat, including beef, has come as a huge setback for the traders who were expecting a good business during the festive season. ...
Two questions are relevant here. One is how many of those who chose the BJP, probably for the first time, have remained with it? The other is whether the party's traditional supporters, who seemingly have less interest in the economy and development than in a pro-Hindu outlook, are influencing the party's agenda....
