The Goel committee submitted its report on August 30, suggesting that NCW be made the nodal authority for looking into disputes arising from NRI marriages External affairs minister Sushma Swaraj on Monday said effective steps will be taken by the government to tackle the issue of NRI men deserting their Indian wives. “We are deeply…
NEW DELHI: In India, many consider them “monsters.” Madhumita Pandey was only 22 when she first went to Tihar Jail in New Delhi to meet and interview convicted rapists in India. Over the past three years, she has interviewed 100 of them for her doctoral thesis at the criminology department of Anglia Ruskin University in the…
The scope and scale of misery caused by Irma continues to grow, including its human toll. Irma, at one point the most powerful hurricane ever recorded in the open Atlantic, has claimed the lives of dozens of people across the Caribbean and southeastern United States. Victims include two women in Havana, Cuba, who died when…
Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi on Tuesday said he supports the Sikh population in their quest for justice for the 1984 anti-Sikh riots in the country. Gandhi, who is currently on a visit to United States, addressed a gathering at the University of California, Berkeley amid protests by a section of the Sikh-American population outside the…
In its latest outreach initiative towards the state’s diaspora, the Punjab government announced it will approach Punjabi-origin youth through its newly conceived ‘Connect to your roots’ programme. According to a report in the Hindustan Times, second, third and fourth generations of Punjabis who have never travelled to Punjab are the focus of the programme. The government…
WASHINGTON: US President Donald Trumpintends to nominate Manisha Singh, a prominent Indian-American lawyer, to a key administration position in the State Departmentthat would make her in charge of the country’s economic diplomacy. If confirmed by the Senate, Singh would replace Charles Rivkin as the assistant secretary of state for economic affairs, according to the White House. Read More @ economictimes…
As you read this, Hurricane Irma would have roared into Florida, and Hurricane Jose and Hurricane Katia would have slammed into the Americas — the Caribbean Islands (once again) and Mexico, respectively. These storms accompanied by torrential rainfall and floods come barely a fortnight after Hurricane Harvey made landfall in Houston, a disaster that the Texas governor estimated would call…
All government primary schools will continue to be open across Uttar Pradesh 17 September, which is a Sunday, to celebrate the Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s 67th birthday. 1.60 lakh schools are to stay open on the day, and it has been made compulsory for all the students to attend the birthday celebrations. As reported by The…
A senior scientist of Indian Meteorological Department (IMD) has lodged a cheating complaint against her 60-year-old cook claiming that the cook has hurt her religious sentiments by concealing her real caste, said a report by The Daily News and Analysis. Bizarre as it may sound, this incident happened in Pune. The cook allegedly posed herself as…
WASHINGTON: US President Donald Trump is set to scrap a programme that grants work permits to immigrants who arrived in the country illegally as children, a move likely to impact more than 7,000 Indian-Americans, a media report said today. The programme — Deferred Action for Children Arrival (DACA) — was a key immigration reform of…
