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Orphanages run by Mother Teresa foundation to close down?

09-Oct-2015

Oct 09, 2015 | • PTI • New Delhi Missionaries of Charity was not complying with the adoption guidelines, says Maneka Gandhi New Delhi: Government will soon conduct a comprehensive survey to create a database of all registered child homes in the country, aiming to trace such institutions not complying with the law. The survey…

Karnataka Home Minister shocker: Rape by two men is not gang-rape, says KJ George

09-Oct-2015

Oct 09, 2015 | • Age Correspondent • Bengaluru Shouldn’t there be at least three or four people for it to be called gang rape, the. Bengaluru: Karnataka Home Minister KJ George on Friday raked controversy by making a bizarre comment that two men raping a woman is not gangrape. “How is it a gang-rape…

Muslim panel seeks probe into sting operation disclosures

09-Oct-2015

Raghava M. MANGALURU, October 9, 2015 The Central Muslim Committee, Dakshina Kannada and Udupi, has sought an inquiry into the alleged disclosures by local Bajrang Dal leaders and a BJP MLC on “Love Jihad” in a sting operation by the Delhi-based Cobrapost and Gulail. Talking to reporters here on Thursday, committee’s president and the former…

Video of Dalit family allegedly stripped by police creates storm on social media

09-Oct-2015

Dadri, October 9, 2015 A video of a Dalit man and his wife allegedly stripped by the police in Greater Noida in Gautam Buddh Nagar has created a storm on social media. The authorities are yet to act on it. Sunil Gautam and his wife were reportedly stripped naked publicly by the local police after…

Man hands out triple talaq through WhatsApp

08-Oct-2015

Thiruvananthapuram, Oct 08, 2015, DHNS: A 21-year-old female BDS student in Kerala was handed out a triple talaq by her husband on WhatsApp, about a month after their wedding. The incident, happened in early 2014, came to light after the girl, a native of Cherthala in Alappuzha district, approached the Kerala Women’s Commission (KWC) during…

Iqlakh’s family leaves Bishada, saffron outfits denied entry into restive village

08-Oct-2015

Thursday, October 08, 2015 Dadri (UP): The family of Mohammed Iqlakh, who was was beaten to death on a street near Dadri last week over rumours of eating beef, has left its home for comparative safety of Delhi, as VHP leader Sadhvi Prachi was yesterday prevented from entering the restive Bishada village defying prohibitory orders.…

More attempts to organise beef fest in Kerala; 10 students suspended

08-Oct-2015

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM, Oct 08, 2015, DHNS The politics over food continued to trigger dissent in beef-loving Kerala as attempts to organise more “beef festivals” were made by college students on Wednesday leading to opposition from college authorities. There were minor clashes and at least 10 students were suspended in Kottayam. Meanwhile, an assistant professor of Sree…

Mob sets fire to truck carrying cows in UP, thrashes Muslim youth

08-Oct-2015

Lucknow, Oct 08, 2015, DHNS Tension prevailed in Malipur area in Uttar Pradesh’s Ambedkar Nagar district after locals torched a truck allegedly carried cows and assaulted a Muslim youth. Police sources here said the truck was on its way to the neighbouring Sultanpur district on Wednesday morning, when it collided with a tractor-trolley near Salahpur…

Denied entry in temple, Dalits launch protest

08-Oct-2015

Kautilya Singh, TNN | Oct 8, 2015, 01.13PM IST DEHRADUN: After being “forcefully” removed from their village, group of Dalits from Gabella village, who were denied permission to enter the temple, sat on a hunger protest outside the Gandhi Park of Dehradun on Thursday morning. On a written complaint by the villagers, the district authorities…