Vivahkumari Mandal Developments in BJP MLC CT Ravi’s alleged lewd comments on Women and Child Development Minister Lakshmi Hebbalkar on Thursday (December 19, 2024) led to protests and demonstrations in the BJP leader’s native Chikkamagaluru. As a result. While Congress party supporters staged protests over Mr. Ravi’s alleged remarks, BJP workers took to the streets to condemn … Read more
Image used for representation A truck collided with other trucks on the Jaipur-Ajmer highway on Friday (December 20, 2024) morning and caught fire, police said. They said that some people were burnt and injured in the incident. According to preliminary information, the truck that hit the other vehicle was carrying chemicals. “Several trucks have been … Read more
60-year-old Veerbhadrappa along with his wife Gangava were involved in the ongoing discussions inside the assembly and council meetings and were involved in sowing activities in front of the Suvarnavidhan Soudh without being aware of it, on July 07, 2015 in Belagavi. Photo credit: K. fortune light Suvarna Soudha in Belagavi is the winter session … Read more
In the summer of 1990, a special police team of the Tamil Nadu Crime Branch-CID (CB-CID) raided brothels in Bombay (now Mumbai) and rescued hundreds of women engaged in prostitution with the help of the local police. The number of victims was so great that the Indian Railways was persuaded to run a special train … Read more
Union Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan addressing a press conference at BJP headquarters in Delhi on December 19, 2024. Photo courtesy: Shivkumar Pushpakar The BJP on Thursday accused the Congress of undermining Indian democracy and the Constitution by behaving “erraticly and shamefully” inside the Parliament premises. Rahul Gandhi was not fit to be the Leader of … Read more
Just outside the two-platform Parbhani railway station in Maharashtra’s Marathwada region flutters the Indian national flag mounted on a pole. Beyond the tea shops selling misal pav and hotels catering to travellers, in front of an Art Deco building, is a statue of Dr. B.R. Ambedkar, who headed the drafting committee of the Constitution of India. Behind … Read more
The Nilgiri Tahar population once spread across the Nilgiris and Western Ghats, with their range extending into Karnataka. | Photo credit: M. Satyamurthy Nilgiri Tahar (Nilgiritragus hylocris) population has stabilized and increased in parts of the Western Ghats over the past few decades due to better conservation practices, wildlife biologists and experts say that another … Read more
Sporting heavy beads to cover their bodies, women of the primitive Bonda tribe return from a market in Onukudelli in Odisha’s Koraput district. | Photo courtesy: KR Deepak Visakha Camera Club (VCC) has come a long way from its humble beginnings in the 1990s to become the powerhouse of creativity it is today. One of … Read more
31-year-old Harikumar’s family of seven is holed up in a one-room, one-kitchen house in Siddhartha Colony near Vidya Peeth in Bengaluru. Married at a young age, he has three children, wife, mother and father. Harikumar works as a garbage collector. About a year ago, he was forced to sell his passenger car to meet the … Read more
Shraddha Kumbhokkar, professor and head of the history department of Savitribhai Phule University, Pune, while recalling Shiv Sena founder Bal Thackeray’s nephew Raj Thackeray, asked NCP (Sharad Chandra Pawar) leader Sharad Pawar who is the person to whom all Maharashtrians belong. Accepted and liked. Mr. Raj was implying that Mr. Pawar was that person, only … Read more