By Sudeshna Sarkar-----
Kathmandu, March 10 (IANS) Dark, untouchable and a slave, yet Kali is the heroine of a campaign to protect the rights of the disadvantaged communities of Nepal, especially women.
By Arun Kumar----
Washington, March 8 (IANS) Congress president Sonia Gandhi, Pepsico�s India-born CEO Indra Nooyi and ICICI Bank chief Chanda Kochhar figure in CNN�s list of eight of Asia's top power women.
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Washington, March 6 (IANS) Four Indian women corporate leaders have made it to the Forbes' list of Asia Pacific's 48 "Heroes Of Philanthropy"....
Kolkata, March 1 (IANS) Nasima Khatun, 16, cannot hold a pen in her hands and write. A polio attack when she was five has left her hands crippled. But she has appeared for the Class 10 board exams in West Bengal and wrote the papers holding the pen in her mouth. ...
By Syed Zarir Hussain----
Barama (Assam), Feb 26 (IANS) After six years in jail, he was a free man Thursday. But Mithinga Daimary - the 43-year-old publicity chief of terror outfit United Liberation Front of Asom (ULFA) - could not stop his tears as he went back to an empty home, his entire family brutally murdered....
By Priyanka Sharma----
New Delhi, Feb 24 (IANS) Holi is around the corner and so are 'bhang thandai' and 'bhang pakoras'! But not everyone knows of the enormous health benefits of bhang - known as cannabis sativa in medical language - that is widely used in ayurvedic treatments.
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By Azera Rahman----
Sapera Basti (Delhi Border), Feb 23 (IANS) Their flutes still hypnotise, their orange turban-dhoti-kurtas are still intact. But as the saperas, or snake charmers, belt out their tunes at parties and weddings, in the back of their minds the picture is a little incomplete. They are bereft of their snakes.
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By Shilpa Raina---
New Delhi, Feb 23 (IANS) First ace golfer Tiger Woods and then former England footballer captain John Terry scorched the headlines for their extramarital affairs. So what prompts people to seek a relationship outside wedlock, putting their family life and image at stake?...
By Binoo Joshi-
Jammu, Feb 20 (IANS) Body scanners will soon be installed at Jawahar Tunnel, the main road link between Kashmir Valley and the rest of India, to prevent terrorists from carrying explosives via this route.
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By Sudeshna Sarkar----
Kathmandu, Feb 20 (IANS) When Nepal's last king Gyanendra ascended the throne in 2001 after the death of his elder brother in a palace massacre, some of the Hindu kingdom's dailies carried photographs of the king's aide de camp, a senior army official, tying his shoe lace in public. But for many young royals, now commoners, that life is a thing of the past.
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New Delhi, Feb 20 (IANS) Rural youths are more likely than their urban cousins to have pre-marital sex, according to a study released by Health Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad here Saturday.
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By Sudeshna Sarkar-----
Kathmandu, Feb 19 (IANS) Nepal had the first casinos in South Asia and was probably the first in the region to approve of same sex marriages. Now the country has its first store dedicated to sex aids ranging from condoms to toys and does brisk business. ...
By Asit Srivastava-----
Badaun, Feb 20 (IANS) They are addressed to "Ganga Maiya", the river goddess. And the letters come in scores every day to a small post office only a few metres away from the banks of the Ganga river in Kachhla town of Uttar Pradesh.
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By Jaideep Sarin----
Chandigarh, Feb 20 (IANS) The 2001 census showed that Haryana had the worst male-female ratio in India. Since then, it has had partial success in reversing the imbalance, but a negative trend shown by nine out of 21 districts in the last one year threatens to undo the good work.
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San Diego (California), Feb 20 (DPA) Researchers at 17 US medical centres plan to start using a hormone to treat serious brain injuries on a trial basis, according to a presentation Friday at an annual US gathering of scientists....
By Syed Zarir Hussain----
Mohkhuli (Assam), Feb 16 (IANS) At 80, Hussain Ali, a small farmer in Assam, is still going strong but is a little worried as his third wife is expecting his 31st child, even as he is busy cradling a bubbly two-month-old baby boy in the courtyard, born to his fourth wife.
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By Rana Ajit----
New Delhi, Feb 15 (IANS) The Supreme Court has sought the Maharashtra government's response to a lawsuit filed by a vegetable vendor accusing a Pune-based private trust of selling her two granddaughters to a Spanish couple under the garb of adoption.
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By Asit Srivastava----
Haridwar, Feb 12 (IANS) Braving the dark of the pre-dawn hours, the chill in the air and the ice cold water of the Ganga, thousands of devotees ecstatically shouting "Bom Bom Bhole" started bathing in the holiest river of the Hindus on the occasion of Mahashivratri Friday, one of the biggest days of the ongoing Maha Kumbh Mela here.
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By Asit Srivastava----
Haridwar (Uttarakhand), Feb 12 (IANS) Sitting on empty, folded sacks, they neatly pile up coins in multiple rows and jingle them every time someone passes by. For the unaccustomed, it takes a while to realise they are out to make 'money from money'.
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By S.P. Singh---
Hapur (Uttar Pradesh), Feb 11 (IANS) Exporting fresh flowers to Europe, the Middle East, Southeast Asia and selling high-value vegetables to hotels and embassies in Delhi, this town in western Uttar Pradesh has become the hub of flourishing new businesses.
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