11.10.2020Jaipur The country has the highest prevalence of ‘wasted children’; even Bangladesh and Pakistan score better India has the highest prevalence of wasted children under five years in the world, which reflects acute undernutrition, according…
Swami accuses VHP for marring iftar Police begin…
Tuesday October 17 2006 KOZHIKODE: The Medical College police have started investigation into the VHP attack on the iftar meet organised by Swami Viswachaithanya, a film director-turned sanyasi at his Viswachaithanya Mandalam ashram near Karanthur…
RSS slams Gandhi
Monday, October 16, 2006 , TimesNow.TV Amidst the current wave of Gandhigiri comes some Gandhi-bashing - from those who seem to have an eternal grudge against the Mahatma.The RSS just won't stop discounting Gandhi's contribution…
India to buy 80 Russian helicopters worth $660…
Novye Izvestia, 17/ 10/ 2006On Monday, Air Chief Marshal Shashindra Pal Tyagi, head of the Indian Air Force, announced plans to buy 80 Mi-17-1V helicopters in the following two years.Marshal Tyagi said all formalities will…
Courts cannot pre-empt nature of legislative policy'
New Delhi, Oct. 17 (PTI): Maintaining that the Supreme Court directive on OBC reservation policy was an "encroachment" on Parliament's powers, the CPI(M) today said the courts cannot "pre-empt and influence" the nature of a…
At Kamakhya Hindu Temple, there's no stopping animal…
Oinam Sunil, 16 Oct, 2006 TIMES NEWS NETWORK GUWAHATI: Like every year, Guwahati's historic Kamakhya temple attracted the wrath of animal rights activists for patronising animal sacrifice, particularly during Durga Puja.The activists cannot do much…
Workshop on landmine free world held
The Imphal Free PressIMPHAL, Oct 17: More than eighty per cent civilians are injured due to anti-personnel landmines and sixty per cent of the anti-personnel landmines are planted by armed non-state actors.Making the above observation…
Christians were offered dhoti, saree to return to…
Orissa VHP arranges mass reconversion programmeRourkela, Oct 17. (UNI) In a major reconversion drive by the Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP), as many as 336 tribals of 80 families in 11 villages under Sundargarh district were…
Cyber crime law to get more teeth
Prerna K Mishra, Hindustan Times,New Delhi, October 17, 2006With the passing of amendments to the Information Technology Act 2000, law enforcing agencies have been given some extra teeth to curb video voyeurism, child pornography, phishing…