In India, “love” is still considered by many to be a dirty word with most marriages arranged by parents along religious or caste lines. But a group of “love commandos” are increasingly stepping in to protect Cupid and his targets. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-18280997
West- flowing rivers have been made into east-flowing rivers by violating all natural laws in Western Ghats: Report The Western Ghats Ecology Expert Panel report was uploaded online last week by the ministry of environment and forests (MOEF). It was made…
Commerce and industry minister Anand Sharma is planning not to confine himself to announcing merely sops for labour-intensive sectors such as textiles and gems & jewellery in the Foreign Trade Policy but use the annual event to revive special economic zones…
Finally! Monsoon hits Kerala coast : India‘s annual monsoon rains have arrived at the southern Kerala coast on Tuesday, a top weather official said, brightening the prospects of higher farm output as farmers can plant summer-sown crops such as rice, soybean…
Defending rights: (From left) Prabha Kalvimani, M.G. Devasahayam, V. Vasanthi Devi, and Geeta Ramaseshan addressing the media in Chennai on Monday. Photo: R. Ragu http://www.thehindu.com/news/states/tamil-nadu/article3490915.ece
An independent jury, which released a report on the Koodankulam Nuclear Power Plant protests, on Monday, alleged that the human rights of the protestors were violated in the way the centre and the state governments handled the agitations at the site. Titled…
Pressing Tamil Nadu’s plea for a 19 per cent hike in the overall Plan outlay for the current fiscal 2012-13, Chief Minister J Jayalalitha urged the Planning Commission (PC) not to dovetail the special development package for villages around the Kudankulam Nuclear…
Taking the agitation against the Kudankulam nuclear plant in Tirunelveli district in Tamil Nadu to a new level, a Chennai-based solidarity group has faulted the National Human Rights Commission and the State Human Rights Commission for their silence with regard to the…
Yemeni forces advance on al-Qaeda-held town Exclusive report from frontline in Abyan province, where fierce fighting is raging for control of territory. The Yemeni army is gearing up for a push to try to take a southern coastal town from al-Qaeda-linked fighters,…
A growing number of Syrian-Kurds are heading to neighbouring Iraq to escape the cycle of violence. The Iraqi government has set up a camp in the country’s semi-autonomous Kurdish north to cater for about 2,000 refugees, who hope to return to…