'In a secular society where women are treated equally by law, I want the same equal status for my daughters in society, on par with all the boys.'
An Indian caregiver in Ashkelon, Israel, recounts what he saw the day Israel saw its worst attack by land, air and sea.
Top leaders of 26 opposition parties were arriving in Bengaluru on Monday for a two-day brainstorming session with a call for unity and are expected to chalk out their joint programme aimed at defeating the Bharatiya Janata Party in the 2024 Lok Sabha elections.
The mobile units with online facility will visit the houses of clients with thousands of proposals, R Chandrasekharan, CMD, Garuda International, said.
The four, including two women, were seated in S-8 and S-9 coaches, which are non-AC, and other passengers claimed that they died due to excessive heat.
'The Quran says that saving one life is like saving humanity. So by donating for Kerala, you are following what Allah told you.' 'This gesture would create goodwill for Muslims and would work as a counter to the hostility they face.' Jyoti Punwani reports how some Muslims won't sacrifice goats this Bakri Eid, instead donating the money towards relief efforts in Kerala.
The special team investigating the Kerala palm chopping case has issued a notice to the state president of the Popular Front of India, Nasirudin Elamaram and its national executive member Professor P Koya. Activists of the PFI had chopped off Professor T J Joseph's right palm over an alleged "insulting reference" to the Prophet Mohammed in a question paper set by him.
The Kerala government has contended that the observation contained in the high court judgement had no relevance for considering the ban.
'Vishal told me he envisioned me while writing (the script), but I was not well.' 'He called me and said, 'Navindraji, hum aap ka dhyaan rakhenge set par.' 'That's how I got on board, and they really pampered me.'
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They welcomed the guests before the start of the dinner from the reception dais, with its backdrop showcasing the ruins of the Nalanda University in Bihar besides India's G20 presidency theme -- 'Vasudhaiva Kutumbakam - One Earth, One Family, One Future'.
The nun had recently sought urgent intervention of the Vatican for justice and demanded the bishop's removal as the head of the Jalandhar diocese.
'People should realise that what we are fighting for today is actually for tomorrow, for future generations.'
The national capital received heavy precipitation resulting in waterlogging on several roads and traffic jams at various intersections.
Central agencies had been monitoring certain leads, which said a group of people hailing from Kerala along with Lashker-e-Tayiba's support were trying to enter Pakistan-occupied-Kashmir through North Kashmir.
Congress leader Rahul Gandhi who is leading the party's pan-India Bharat Jodo Yatra on Sunday gave some exciting moments during the foot march as he suddenly started to sprint along with some school children, forcing others to run.
The persons nabbed have been identified as Perwez Ahmed, Mohd Ilias and Abdul Muqeet (arrested from Delhi) and Shafeeque Payeth who was taken into custody by the ED from Kerala.
After a spirited eight-hour debate in which 60 members participated, the Lok Sabha passed the Constitution (128th Amendment) Bill, with 454 members voting in favour and two against it.
The government has acquired 100 acres from Kerala State Cashew Plantation Corporation and chalked out strategies for setting up an exclusive IT hub in the earmarked land and expects to lure an investment to the tune of Rs 1,000 crore (Rs 10 billion), State Information Secretary Dr Ajay Kumar told PTI. After setting up its first SEZ in Kochi, the government has chosen Cheemeni as part of its move in giving thrust on low cost destination to acquire cheaper land.
According to BJP insiders, every Union minister has been given 3-4 seats to mentor and has been told to work hard on these constituencies in the next 20 months to ensure the party's victory.
Though Andhra Pradesh police has not confirmed the arrest of Sattanna so far, Revolutionary Writer Association founder Varavara Rao alleged that the Maoist leader was taken into custody by a special police party from Angamaly in Ernakulam district in Kerala on a specific tip-off.
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The raids, as per official sources, began at 3:30 am and involved as many as 300 NIA officials from across its various offices.
Four people, including two staff of Congress MP Rahul Gandhi's Wayanad office, were arrested on Friday for allegedly causing damage to Mahatma Gandhi's photo nearly two months ago when an Students' Federation of India protest march led to violence on the premises.
In a new twist to the politically sensitive graft case in which he is an accused, CPI(M) leader Pinarayi Vijayan today filed a petition in a special court in Kochi seeking direction to the CBI to question Defence Minister A K Antony, the then chief minister of the state.
Every twist and turn in KMC's civil service career is attributed to serendipity, an aptitude for making desirable discoveries by accident. He plays down his capabilities, which took him to the top of the civil service as the Cabinet Secretary or his misfortune in losing a daughter in her prime and suggests that his career was indeed serendipitous, observes Ambassador T P Sreenivasan.
The first batch of 44 Keralite nurses, stranded in strife torn Libya, would arrive in India on Tuesday. The nurses, working in various hospitals in Libya, had reached Tunisia, from where they will be reaching Dubai to take the scheduled flight to Kochi and arrive Tuesday morning, chief executive officer of Non-Resident Keralite Affairs department P Sudeep said.
Kerala journalist Sidhique Kappan walked out of jail on bail Thursday, over two years after he was arrested for allegedly trying to instigate violence after the death of a woman in Uttar Pradesh's Hathras.
'You know the kind of force involved in all of this. They are not good for the country where all of this will happen.'
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'Those who were not co-operating are co-operating now.' 'Now, our facilities are fit, our doctors are fit and we have a better protocol of how to do isolation, how to do the collection.'
If only the Congress could rebuild on its strengths and develop a modern enough ideology, we could again be moving towards a clearer two-party political landscape, asserts Shekhar Gupta.
Forty years after the encounter death of Naxal leader A Varghese in the Waynad forests, a court in Kerala, Wednesday, found he had been 'brutally killed', and convicted former inspector general of oolice K Lakshmana, in the case while acquitting ex deputy general of police P Vijayan.
The Thiruvananthapuram-bound train will leave Chennai on Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesday and Fridays.
It said that it was "disheartening" to see that some news channels "are in the habit of publishing sleaze more than news."
Ubaid is transferring the funds to the Kerala Chief Minister's Distress Relief Fund.
This takes the death toll in Kerala from the disease to 86.
There was no casualty and all passengers were taken to Thrissur for their onward journey. Railway ordered a probe.
Shobin, a B-Tech graduate from Kothamangalam, and Shanavaz alias Shemy from Valluvalli near Parur, will be produced before the judicial first class magistrate's court, Muvattupuzha, in the evening
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