`Expedite adoption of Bills for women's protection'
Four Bills are pending for the past seven years: Nafees Fazal BANGALORE: Congress MLC and former Minister Nafees Fazal has urged the Government to expedite the adoption of four pending Bills related to protection of…
Women are greening India's Kutch
Posted: 19 Apr 2006, by Freny Manecksha, © People & the Planet 2000 - 2006 For days a stream of curious villagers thronged the small plot of land that Halimabai Usman owns in the village…
The art of myth
The 10th-century temples at Khajuraho in northern India are as captivating as the deities and nymphs who inspired them. Carolyn Fry reports Thursday April 20, 2006 Frozen in time ... the lion sculpture outside the…
Warrants issued against filmstars for "posing in an…
NBWs issued to Reema Sen, Shilpa ShettyMadurai, April. 21 (PTI): A local court today issued non-bailable warrants against actors Reema Sen and Shilpa Shetty for "posing in an obscene manner" in photographs published in a…
Hindu woman arrested for trespassing in to the…
Thiruvananthapuram: The city police have arrested a 40-year-old woman on the charges of trespassing into the sanctum sanctorum of Thaliyal Arasumoodu Sree Madan Thampuran temple in Karamana police station limits on Friday morning. According to…
When the intolerant saffron brigade begins to see…
Newsletter Gujarat Mahesh Trivedi, Khaleej Times, 22 April 2006 NARENDRA Modi hates journalists' guts. At every public meeting, the chief minister pooh-poohs the Press, often pointing directly at the newshounds if they are present. So,…
Outsourcing pregnancies to India
Rising numbers of infertile couples from U.S. and Europe are coming to India to hire surrogate mothers. Read More
Saffron Demography
MOHAN RAO, Times of India At a public meeting attended by thousands, the leader of the Madhya Pradesh unit of RSS claimed recently that the Muslim population was increasing at a rapid pace, and that…