A 40-year-old woman who had gone to defecate in a forest here in Nagina town’s Kaziwala village was killed by a leopard, a forest officer said on Sunday. Mithlesh Devi had gone to the forest Saturday morning when a leopard attacked her, Forest Officer Pradeep Sharma said. Seriously injured in the attack, she died on Read More…
By C K George Brahmins had kept Sanskrit as their monopoly for about three thousand years preventing others from learning it including low-Caste Hindus. Hanxleden was credited to have broken the iron-grip of Brahmins” theocracy and rendered Sanskrit’s ancient wisdom accessible to the whole world especially Europe. Padre learnt Sanskrit language from two high-Caste Brahmins Read More…
By C K George The German Jesuit Missionary Priest, Joannes Ernestus Hanxleden alias Arnos Padre was a “storm on two legs in the literary and cultural horizon of not only Kerala but also the world over” for about three decades. He had produced classical works in Malayalam and Sanskrit when it was a taboo for Read More…
Congress leaders Sonia Gandhi, Rahul Gandhi and Mallikarjun Kharge joined a party protest near the Mahatma Gandhi statue in parliament today. The protest began soon after both Houses were adjourned for the day in a standoff over Rahul Gandhi’s “democracy-under-attack” remarks in London. Sonia Gandhi and Mallikarjun Kharge sat on chairs as the MPs protested Read More…
The Kerala Assembly was adjourned for the day on Friday amid protests over the registration of cases against opposition UDF legislators over the alleged attack on House marshals during the ruckus in front of the Speaker’s office two days ago. The protest began after Speaker A N Shamseer refused to allow Leader of the Opposition Read More…
The death toll in Malawi from Cyclone Freddy has risen to 326, the country’s president said Thursday, bringing the total number of victims across southern Africa to more than 400 since February. Rescuers were unearthing more bodies as the chances of finding survivors faded after the cyclone followed a highly unusual course by returning to Read More…
The Army has rescued more than 1,000 tourists, including women and children, who were stranded at Chhangu in the upper reaches of East Sikkim, following heavy snowfall, officals said. Severe snowfall in Natu La, Tsomgo (Chhangu) Lake and adjoining areas on Wednesday afternoon brought down the temperature to sub-zero levels and impacted the movement of Read More…
Amid a logjam in Parliament, the ruling BJP and opposition parties are expected to continue to stick to their stands. The BJP is demanding apology from Congress leader Rahul Gandhi over his remarks in the United Kingdom and the opposition parties are pressing for a joint parliamentary committee probe into the Adani row. The second Read More…
The minister of law and justice Kiren Rijiju on Thursday informed Parliament that there are no pending cases that are more than 50 years, civil or criminal, in the Supreme Court. However, the high courts had as many as 1,514 civil and criminal cases pending, that were over 50 years old, said Rijiju said in Read More…
The Mumbai Crime Branch team during the HSC Board Mathematics paper leak case investigation found that apart from Mathematics, Physics and Chemistry papers were also leaked by the management staff, said the police on Thursday. “Before the leak of Mathematics paper was caught on March 3, the papers of Physics on February 27 and Chemistry Read More…